Sponsored by the Sparkasse Dortmund, the 28th Dortmund Chess Meeting was played from July 6th to July 16th, 2000. Nine grandmasters participated: the World Championship challenger Vladimir Kramnik (Elo ranked #2 in the world), Viswanathan Anand (#3), Michael Adams (#5), Peter Leko (#7), Evgeny Bareev (#11), FIDE World Champion Alexander Khalifman (#25), Vladimir Akopian (#28), Jeroen Piket (#34), and Robert Hübner (#66). In additon, and for the first time in such an event, a computer chess program (Deep Junior 6) was entered into the contest. (1, 2, 3) One of the four white wins in Round 1 was Adams' win against Piket, who lost on time. (4) In Round 2, Junior beat Hübner in 20 moves, while Leko played the Nimzo-Indian for the first time in his career (with the black pieces). (4) The star of the event was Kramnik who had just surpassed Anand on the rating list. Kramnik started out well but lost against Adams in Round 4. To prevent Adams from putting his knight on f5, he should have exchanged bishops and been almost equal with

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45...Bh6. Play went instead 45...Bf6? 46.Bxd4! Kramnik must now have realized that 46...cxd4 47.Nf5 Qe6 48.Rc2 Rc7 49.a4! (creating an outside passer) would probably lose. He tried 46...Bxh4, but after 47.Bxc5 the situation was equally hopeless (Stockfish). This was Kramnik's first loss in 85 games. (5) A round later (after having defeated Junior) he stated in an interview that he did not take the event very seriously, but rather as a training before the upcoming Kasparov - Kramnik Classical World Championship Match (2000) in October. (6) However, this did not prevent him from beating Anand in Round 6, and Hübner in Round 8. Kramnik and Anand tied for first, as they did in Dortmund (1996), and Kramnik was declared the winner, based on his better Sonneborn-Berger score. (5) It was his fifth win at Dortmund. (7)

Dortmund, Germany, 7-16 July 2000

             Elo   1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 0      SonBe
 1 Kramnik   2770  * 1 0 ½ 1 1 ½ ½ ½ 1  6   25.75
 2 Anand     2762  0 * 1 ½ ½ ½ 1 ½ 1 1  6   23.75
 3 Adams     2755  1 0 * ½ ½ ½ ½ ½ 1 ½  5   21.75
 4 Leko      2743  ½ ½ ½ * ½ 0 ½ 1 ½ 1  5   20.75
 5 Akopian   2660  0 ½ ½ ½ * ½ ½ 1 1 ½  5   20.75
 6 Junior 6        0 ½ ½ 1 ½ * ½ ½ 0 1  4½	 
 7 Khalifman 2667  ½ 0 ½ ½ ½ ½ * ½ ½ ½  4   17.50
 8 Bareev    2702  ½ ½ ½ 0 0 ½ ½ * ½ 1  4   16.50
 9 Piket     2649  ½ 0 0 ½ 0 1 ½ ½ * ½  3½	 
10 Hübner    2615  0 0 ½ 0 ½ 0 ½ 0 ½ *  2

In addition to the main event there was a Category IX tournament, won by Eckhard Schmittdiel (ahead of 14-year-old Arkadij Naiditsch and two other players), an Open A, won by Jozsef Pinter, and an Open B, won by Igor Eismont. (2)

Notes

(1) FIDE Rating List July 2000 (http://www.olimpbase.org/Elo/Elo200...)
(2) TeleSchach, Dortmund 2000 page (http://teleschach.de/dortmund/)
(3) Kjell Krantz in Tidskrift för Schack, Sept. 2000, pp. 456-462 (http://www.schack.se/tfsarkiv/histo...)
(4) Schach.com, Dortmund 2000 page (http://www.schach.com/berichte/2000...)
(5) Leontxo García in Jaque, No. 523 (Sept. 2000), pp. 8-20 (http://www.bartelski.pl/olimpbase/l...)
(6) CanalWeb, Dortmund 2000 video (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=68Y...)
(7) Wikipedia article: Dortmund Sparkassen Chess Meeting

Original collections: Game Collection: Dortmund Sparkassen 2000 by User: suenteus po 147 and Game Collection: Dortmund Sparkassen 2000 by User: Tabanus. Round dates (July 7, 8, 9, 10, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16) are from Schach.com and Jaque 523.