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Dortmund 2012

#1 in the World and Russia! Dortmund: The Realm of King Caruana

 Fab Fabiano! The young American-Italian stud made it: he won the Sparkassen Chess Meeting super tournament in Dortmund, dethroning King Vlad . In a dramatic last round, Caruana, after the amazing win over Kramink in round 8, managed to beat GM Bartel, to take the trophy. Now Caruana is officially one of the elite players - his rating put him there already - and nobody will be able to affirm that he's getting rating points in "weaker events".  The peripatetic American-Italian boy, who's been playing frantically in every Open tournament in the last months, eventually grabs a super-event title, to enter the realm of Caissa. Sergey Karjakin - the other youngster in the lot - had a great tournament, and only the tiebreak criteria declared him be second. Vlad the King fought to retain his title for the 11th time, but the pack of young hungry wolves didn't allow the seasoned champion to fulfill his plans. Are we witnessing a generation change? We'll see!

 


 
Round Date Host Game Preview Members
8
July 21
GM Speelman GM Alex Yermolinsky
Sweere

GM Fabiano Caruana
GM Vladimir Kramnik

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7
July 20
GM Speelman GM Alex Yermolinsky
Sweere

GM Vladimir Kramnik
GM Peter Leko

PLAY
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6
July 19
Var Akobian GM Var Akobian
"SCORPION83"

GM Jan Gustafsson
GM Arkadij Naiditsch

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5
July 17
GM Speelman GM Ronen Har-Zvi
Indiana-Jones
GM Sergey Karjakin
GM Daniel Fridman
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4
July 16
GM Peter Leko
GM Fabiano Caruana
PLAY
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3
July 15
GM Georg Meier
GM Ruslan Ponomariov
PLAY
PLAY
2
July 14
Var Akobian GM Var Akobian
"SCORPION83"

GM Jan Gustafsson
GM Vladimir Kramnik

PLAY
PLAY
1
July 13

GM Fabiano Caruana
GM Arkadij Naiditsch

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