Sparkassen Chess Trophy 2024
Elisabeth Pähtz in a direct duel with Dinara Wagner
After last year's big anniversary, the 51st edition of Germany's most prestigious chess festival will focus on the Sparkassen Open. Top national players will compete with international grandmasters and play for a €20,000 prize fund.
Within the 50th International Dortmund Chess Days, press officer Patrick Zelbel conducted an extensive interview with Artur Yusupov about his tasks in Dortmund, the highlights of his career, chess for children and the opportunities in German chess. An excerpt appeared in the sports section of the daily newspapers of Lensing Media, Zeitungsverlag Rubens and Medienhaus Bauer on 6 July.
Various photo series and videos of the exciting last day of the Sparkassen Chess Trophy 2023 are online. In the gallery you can find pictures by Michelle Lassak, Christian Lünig and Dariusz Gorzinski. On YouTube there are impression videos by Nicolas Lagasse (e.g. Impressions 2023 Part 3) and a short interview with Vladimir Kramnik about the tournament. We hope you enjoy the brilliant pictures!
The 50th International Dortmund Chess Days were the perfect chess festival for aspirants for IM or GM titles. A total of seven norms were achieved, three Grandmaster norms and 4 norms for the title International Master.
