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Dortmund 2009

The annual Sparkassen Chess Meeting, sponsored by the German bank in Dortmund of the same name, will take place July 2nd to 12th in the Dortmund Civic Theater.

Former Russian world champion Vladimir Kramnik is no stranger to Dortmund being one of his favorite tournaments.  But unlike in the past, he's not the top seed and will be looking to reassert his authority after a lengthy layoff as the young Norwegian Magnus Carlsen tops the six-player field.

The full line-up (in rating order from the April Fide list) is: Magnus Carlsen (Norway), Vladimir Kramnik (Russia), Dmitry Jakovenko (Russia), Peter Leko (Hungary), (Russia), Etienne Bacrot (France) and Arkady Naiditsch (Germany).

The ICC Chess.FM team (though minus Macauley Peterson) will also be back in action covering Dortmund, with host Mig Greengard being joined each round by GMs Joel Benjamin, Larry Christiansen, Nick De Firmian, Ronen Har-Zvi and Gregory Kaidanov.  Play will get underway each day at 9:00AM ET (Final round 7:00AM ET).

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Dortmund 2009 (July 2nd - 12th) Date Round Commentator GOTD July 2 1 LarryC(GM) July 3 2 LarryC(GM) July 4 3 Kaidanov(GM) July 5 4 Indiana-Jones(GM) July 6 5 N-DeFirmian(GM) July 8 6 N-DeFirmian(GM) July 9 7 Speelman(GM) July10 8 LarryC(GM) July11 9 TBA July12 10 TBA

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Sunday, July 05   09:00   Live Coverage Dortmund 2009 - Round 4 with ChessFM     View this week's entire event list