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Dortmund Sparkassen (2015) The 43rd Dortmund Sparkassen Chess-Meeting took place in the Orchesterzentrum NRW in Dortmund, Germany 27 June - 5 July 2015. Rest days: June 29 and July 2. Chief organizer: Ralf Chadt-Rausch. Players received 100 minutes for 40 moves, then 50 more minutes for the next 20 moves, then 15 more minutes for the rest of the game, with a 30-second increment from move one. Fabiano Caruana won the event for the 3rd time with 5.5/7. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 1 Caruana 2805 * 0 1 1 1 ½ 1 1 5½ 2 So 2778 1 * 0 1 0 1 ½ ½ 4 3 Nisipeanu 2654 0 1 * ½ 1 ½ ½ ½ 4 4 Kramnik 2783 0 0 ½ * 0 1 1 1 3½ 5 Naiditsch 2722 0 1 0 1 * 0 ½ ½ 3 6 Nepomniachtchi 2720 ½ 0 ½ 0 1 * ½ ½ 3 7 Yifan Hou 2676 0 ½ ½ 0 ½ ½ * ½ 2½ 8 Meier 2654 0 ½ ½ 0 ½ ½ ½ * 2½ Category: XIX (2724). Chief arbiter: Andrzej Filipowicz The Open A swiss was won on tiebreak by Glen de Schampheleire with 7/9. Wikipedia article: Dortmund Sparkassen Chess Meeting#2015 Sparkassen Open: http://www.scm-open.de/OpenA_Tabell... 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Next: Dortmund Sparkassen (2016)  page 1 of 2; games 1-25 of 28  Game   Result Moves Year Event/Locale Opening 1. Kramnik vs Naiditsch 0-1 57 2015 Dortmund Sparkassen D41 Queen's Gambit Declined, Semi-Tarrasch 2. G Meier vs Y Hou ½-½ 59 2015 Dortmund Sparkassen E06 Catalan, Closed, 5.Nf3 3. Nisipeanu vs So 1-0 28 2015 Dortmund Sparkassen B23 Sicilian, Closed 4. Nepomniachtchi vs Caruana ½-½ 46 2015 Dortmund Sparkassen A07 King's Indian Attack 5. Nepomniachtchi vs G Meier ½-½ 25 2015 Dortmund Sparkassen C11 French 6. Y Hou vs Kramnik 0-1 28 2015 Dortmund Sparkassen C65 Ruy Lopez, Berlin Defense 7. Caruana vs So 0-1 69 2015 Dortmund Sparkassen B90 Sicilian, Najdorf 8. Naiditsch vs Nisipeanu 0-1 49 2015 Dortmund Sparkassen B12 Caro-Kann Defense 9. So vs Naiditsch 0-1 36 2015 Dortmund Sparkassen D37 Queen's Gambit Declined 10. Kramnik vs Nepomniachtchi 1-0 55 2015 Dortmund Sparkassen A04 Reti Opening 11. Nisipeanu vs Y Hou ½-½ 33 2015 Dortmund Sparkassen E16 Queen's Indian 12. G Meier vs Caruana 0-1 51 2015 Dortmund Sparkassen A04 Reti Opening 13. Caruana vs Naiditsch 1-0 41 2015 Dortmund Sparkassen E04 Catalan, Open, 5.Nf3 14. Nepomniachtchi vs Nisipeanu ½-½ 75 2015 Dortmund Sparkassen B12 Caro-Kann Defense 15. G Meier vs Kramnik 0-1 54 2015 Dortmund Sparkassen C67 Ruy Lopez 16. Y Hou vs So ½-½ 40 2015 Dortmund Sparkassen B18 Caro-Kann, Classical 17. So vs Nepomniachtchi 1-0 49 2015 Dortmund Sparkassen D70 Neo-Grunfeld Defense 18. Kramnik vs Caruana 0-1 38 2015 Dortmund Sparkassen D78 Neo-Grunfeld, 6.O-O c6 19. Naiditsch vs Y Hou   ½-½ 64 2015 Dortmund Sparkassen E48 Nimzo-Indian, 4.e3 O-O 5.Bd3 d5 20. Nisipeanu vs G Meier ½-½ 42 2015 Dortmund Sparkassen E42 Nimzo-Indian, 4.e3 c5, 5.Ne2 (Rubinstein) 21. Kramnik vs Nisipeanu ½-½ 83 2015 Dortmund Sparkassen A13 English 22. Caruana vs Y Hou 1-0 39 2015 Dortmund Sparkassen D31 Queen's Gambit Declined 23. G Meier vs So ½-½ 43 2015 Dortmund Sparkassen D12 Queen's Gambit Declined Slav 24. Nepomniachtchi vs Naiditsch 1-0 68 2015 Dortmund Sparkassen D36 Queen's Gambit Declined, Exchange, Positional line, 6.Qc2 25. Nisipeanu vs Caruana 0-1 30 2015 Dortmund Sparkassen C52 Evans Gambit  page 1 of 2; games 1-25 of 28    REFINE SEARCH:   White wins (1-0) | Black wins (0-1) | Draws (1/2-1/2)   < Earlier Kibitzing  · PAGE 20 OF 22 ·  Later Kibitzing> Jul-05-15    epistle: Better if he plays only in mickey mouse tournaments without any top guns. For in tournaments with top guns the top guns always win. Jul-05-15    Wavy: Well, Magnus the top gun of them all didn't win his last tournament. If Wesley will play only against mickey mouse tournaments, he will lose a lot of games. He somehow underestimates lower rated players. Jul-05-15    epistle: Wesley wasn't there. Jul-05-15    epistle: The top guns underestimates Wesley. That's more like it. For if he's really better than the top guns then he should be the one winning the tournaments not the top guns Jul-05-15    Check It Out: <Wavy: Maybe he should avoid lower rated players and just play against the top guns.> But then he would be a pampered goldfish! :) Jul-05-15    epistle: He is just a grilled tilapia now. Jul-06-15    Wavy: How about my math question? Any genius out there? Jul-06-15    joeyj: +5-1=1 ??? that's why when i write i prefer +5=1-1. hmmm ... seems ive made it even worst ??? LOL ! Jul-06-15    john barleycorn: +5-1=1. That is my wife's way to do it. When I have 5 € in my pocket she will get one which then leaves exactly one for me. Jul-06-15    ChemMac: Wavy: Chess meaning here. 5+ means five wins; 1- means one loss; =1 or 1= means one draw. I thought you were being funny, but I'll take your question at its face value..... Jul-06-15    Wavy: ChemMac, you are a genius! All along I thought there are some complicated theorems being applied here and after long calculations, they arrived at those answers. Jul-06-15    ChemMac: <epistle; and others> Even if there is a 200 rating point difference, a four-game match "should" (hmm...) give a 3 to 1 win; only; for the higher-ranked player. It makes no sense to read anything at all into So's two lost games against players only around 100 rating points lower. Only with a 400 rating point difference should one expect over a 97% result. There is a story about testing that, whether true or not I do not know. Local NY player Asa Hoffmann, an inveterate gambler, challenged Bobby Fischer to play 5-minute chess - at any odds! Fischer laughed (Asa was perhaps around Elo 2250 or so), and said what; 100-1? I wasn't told what the money bet was. Anyway, Asa caught Bobby in an opening trap!! Instead of paying up, a furious Fischer kept right on winning game after game until the Manhattan Chess Club closed for the night, so they they moved to the old Chess and Checkers place near Times Square, called the Flea House - long since closed - and kept playing until Fischer won the 101st game!! That would have been over 16 hours, unless Fischer was using just one minute to Asa's five, which he used to do in the Manhattan Chess Club, when it would have been only ten hours or so. However; the story does fit the personalities of each player. For example. I managed to beat Reshevsky the one time I played him, when the rating point difference was around 200 or so, but never had the opportunity to test the above 1-3 prediction! There were however many games vs Pal Benko in rapids tournaments - roughly around 2-1 in his favour - and also one win for me (in the Chessgames collection) and two losses in regular tournaments. That is about what was to be expected. Jul-06-15    ChemMac: Wavy: my IQ WAS tested as 181 at age 9 and 162 at age 13, and I've been getting dumber ever since. As my late wife used to say: if you're so smart, how come you can be so stupid? Now, at 84: senile decay! Seriously; you should have figured the meaning out. Jul-06-15    fgh: <ChemMac: Wavy: my IQ WAS tested as 181 at age 9 and 162 at age 13, and I've been getting dumber ever since.> http://www.livescience.com/36143-iq... Jul-06-15    AylerKupp: <ChemMac> You do realize that at that IQ decay rate, if extrapolated linearly, your IQ would have reached 0 at about 48 years old? :-) Mine would probably have done something similar although, once it reached 0, I think that it went into the complex plane rather than negative. Jul-06-15    Marmot PFL: Why high IQ in childhood may not predict adult success http://www.nytimes.com/2002/03/12/s... Jul-06-15    Wavy: <''It's good to be somewhat smart,'' Kevin Kearney said. ''It's good to be in the 120 or 140 I.Q. range. In America that's ideal. But if you're beyond that, you're in trouble, you're out of sync with everybody. It's like having an 80 I.Q.'' > Whew! I almost missed the cut off IQ of 140. It's good that my IQ is a few points below 140. That means I'm not in trouble. Jul-06-15    schweigzwang: <And today my car reached 111,111 miles. I didn't check the time but I think that it was 11:11 AM. I'm sure that it was not a coincidence.> There are 10 kinds of people in the world ... Jul-06-15    AylerKupp: <schweigzwang> Well, I do understand binary, but it this case it might be unary. :-) Jul-06-15    Mr 1100: By the way, can someone clarify - will Kramnik and So be playing in St Louis or London? Or have they both categorically ruled themselves out of the Grand Chess Tour? Jul-06-15    whiteshark: Reports on the final round: http://chess24.com/en/read/news/dor... http://www.chess.com/news/5-game-wi... http://en.chessbase.com/post/dortmu... http://de.chessbase.com/post/caruan... (German) http://www.chessdom.com/fabiano-car... Jul-06-15    cro777: <Mr 1100: Can someone clarify - will Kramnik and So be playing in St Louis or London?> Kramnik declined the participation in the Grand Chess Tour, because he didn't want to play all those tournaments. So was invited, but had a schedule conflict with Norway Chess (he already had signed up for the match against Navara). That's why he was replaced by Vachier Lagrave. Each tournament has one organizer wild card and Wesley was the obvious choice for the Sinquefield Cup in St Louis. He will join Caruana in this tournament. Jul-06-15    cro777: Before the 2015 Sinquefield Cup (August 21st-September 4th) Wesley So will participate in the 2015 Turkish Super League Team Chess Championship in Kocaeli, Turkey. The event consists of 13 team playing in a 13-round format. Round 1 starts on August 4th. Jul-06-15    Gypsy: After first two rounds of this tournament, 'live' world rankings of the players went as this: Caruana #6 Kramnik #7 So #8 Nepomniatchi #38 Naiditsch #53 Hou #66 Nisipeanu #74 Meier #88 (I looked it up, so I now present it here for posterity.) Jul-06-15    choosea: > Hou #66 - 100 == ?? 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