In Dortmund!
23 June 2007 14:49 PM CET | Last modified: 17:26 | By Peter Doggers | Filed under: Reports | Tags:
After a week of ‘regular holiday’ in Berlin I have now arrived at the new location of the grand tour: Dortmund. Here, within a few moments, the Sparkassen Chess Meeting 2007 will start, the next super tournament on the calendar after Wijk aan Zee, Morelia/Linares and Sofia. The participants are world champion Kramnik (yes, he plays!), Boris Gelfand, Shakhriyar Mamedyarov, Magnus Carlsen, Peter Leko, Arkadij Naiditsch, Evgeny Alekseev (who qualified at the Aeroflot Open) and Viswanathan Anand.
For now I start with a small pictorial report. Very soon there will be videos, of course!
Dortmund Hauptbahnhof
The huge Sparkasse building opposed to the train station
As said before, you have to be a bit crazy
Some window shopping
The main sponsor of the tournament
The playing venue: the Dortmund Theater
The tournament hasn’t started yet…
…but the book selling has!
Famous chess commentator Helmut Pfleger, second from the left
Kramnik-Anand
Carlsen-Leko
Mamedyarov-Naiditsch
Gelfand-Alekseev
Nice pictures! I really like that chess board design in the window picture.
nice pics peter ! hope to meet you in dortmund ! will be quite a fun in dortmund!
Thank you peter for giving us this snapshot of the place and the 1st round.Now looking forward to your videos !
was it you I heard talking on cess FM this afternoon?
I read somewhere that Mamedyarov is supposed to be 21?! I can’t understand this as he looks about 40. Please fill me in if I’m misunderstood. Thanks.
@ alex Yes I was on Chess.FM!
@ Mynameis He was born born April 12, 1985.
jammer dat je zelf niet meespeelt!!!!!!!