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From 10 to 18 July, chess fans all over the world can again look to Dortmund. The Dortmunder Schachtage have been taking place there since 1973 and for decades the international chess elite has been coming to the German city.
Last year, in 2020, a new organisational team wanted to restart the traditional tournament. With the Westfalenhalle as a prominent venue, a large international open was planned. The meeting of German and international Grandmasters with many amateurs was to make Dortmund more of a chess festival again, after the Grandmaster tournament and the Open had become more and more distant from each other in the years before. However, because of the Corona pandemic, these ideas had to be postponed.