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The Dortmunder Sparkassen Chess Meeting is taking place in the State Theatre (Schauspielhaus) in Dortmund, Germany, from July 29th to August 6, 2006. It is a single round robin tournament with eight players, averaging 2720 Elo and making for a category 19 event.
| Round 2: Sunday, July 30, 15:00h | ||
Levon Aronian |
Vladimir Kramnik | |
Arkadij Naiditsch |
Boris Gelfand | |
Peter Svidler |
Peter Leko | |
Michael Adams |
Baadur Jobava | |
The first game to end in the second round of the Sparkassen Chess-Meeting was Peter Svidler vs Peter Leko. Both players had won their first-round games and the 23-move draw left them at the top of the table. The longest game was Levon Aronian vs Vladimir Kramnik, which lasted 43 moves and a total of four hours and 15 minutes.
Levon Aronian vs Vladimir Kramnik in round two
Aronian,L (2761) - Kramnik,V (2743) [D20]
Sparkassen Dortmund GER (2), 30.07.2006
1.d4 d5 2.c4 dxc4 3.e4 e5 4.Nf3 exd4 5.Bxc4 Bb4+ 6.Bd2 Bxd2+ 7.Nbxd2
Qf6 8.0-0 Ne7 9.e5 Qg6 10.Nxd4 Nbc6 11.Nxc6 Nxc6 12.f4 0-0 13.Nf3 Bg4 14.Bd3
Qh6 15.Qa4 Rad8 16.Be4 Bxf3 17.Rxf3 Rd4 18.Qc2 Nb4 19.Qe2 Qb6 20.Kh1 Rfd8 21.Raf1
Rd2 22.Qe1 Qd4
23.e6 Rd1 24.Qxd1 Qxd1 25.e7 Qxf1+ 26.Rxf1 Re8 27.Rd1 f5 28.Bxf5 Rxe7 29.g3 g6 30.Bb1 c6 31.a3 Nd5 32.Bd3 Kg7 33.Kg1 Ne3 34.Re1 Kf6 35.h3 Nf5 36.Rxe7 Nxe7 37.Kf2 h6 38.Ke3 b6 39.b4 Nf5+ 40.Bxf5 Kxf5 41.g4+ Ke6 42.Kd4 h5 43.a4 ½-½.
Last year's winner Arkadij Naiditsch, Germany, vs Boris Gelfand,
Israel
Arkaidij Naiditsch and Baadur Jobava both scored their first half-points, after their losses in the first round. Naiditsch did it on the white side of a Najdorf against specialist Boris Gelfand, while Jobava held his black game with a Caro Kann Panov against Michael Adams.
The two Peters, Svidler and Leko, drew after 23 moves
On the same stage as the Super-GMs two women are playing a match: Germany's strongest female player, and former Women's Junior World Champion Elisabeth Pähtz, 21, Elo 2456 and number 22 in the current women's world rankings, vs the strongest female player in the USA, Irina Krush, 22, Elo 2436, women's world ranking 34.
Irina Krush of the US vs Elisabeth Pähtz of Germany
The first two games between the two ended in draws, in 28 and 18 moves. Click here to replay and download these games.
Photos by Jeroen van den Belt
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