The Chess Mind

Author: Dennis Monokroussos.
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Past Dortmund winners: The list
Here's the full list. A comment: 2002 really shouldn't be included, as it was a Candidates event to see who would face Kramnik for the world championship.

1928 Sämisch, Fritz
1951 O'Kelly de Galway, A.
1961 Taimanov, Mark
1973 Hecht, Hans-Joachim
1974 Ciocâltea, Victor
1975 Westerinen, Heikki
1976 Romanishin, Oleg
1977 Smejkal, Jan
1978 Andersson, Ulf
1979 Giorgadze, Tamaz
1980 Keene, Raymond
1981 Kuzmin, Gennady
1982 Hort, Vlastimil
1983 Suba, Mihai
1984 Gruenfeld, Yehuda
1985 Razuvayev, Yuri
1986 Ribli, Zoltán
1987 Balashov, Yuri
1988 Lputian, Smbat
1989 Geller, Efim
1990 Chernin, Alexander
1991 Stohl, Igor
1992 Kasparov, Garry
1993 Karpov, Anatoly
1994 Piket, Jeroen
1995 Kramnik, Vladimir
1996 Kramnik, Vladimir
1997 Kramnik, Vladimir
1998 Kramnik, Vladimir
1999 Leko, Peter
2000 Kramnik, Vladimir
2001 Kramnik, Vladimir
2002 Leko, Peter
2003 Bologan, Viktor
2004 Anand, Viswanathan
2005 Naiditsch, Arkadij
2006 Kramnik, Vladimir
2007 Kramnik, Vladimir

(HT: ChessBase)
Posted by Dennis Monokroussos on Friday July 4, 2008 at 11:57pm
Alex Herrera:
How do the settle ties? SB tie breaker? Obviously a number of these finished with joint leaders at the end.
7.5.2008 6:06pm
Dennis Monokroussos:
Dunno - I couldn't find it on the Dortmund site after a couple of minutes' looking. Maybe a fluent German speaker will have more luck.
7.5.2008 10:25pm
Alex Herrera:
Thanks for checking. I found some information here, which indicates that in 2000 the first tiebreaker was head to head results:
http://www.chessbase.com/newsdetail.asp?newsid=1081

"In 2000, the top three players – Kramnik, Anand and Adams – didn't lose to any of the other seven players. In a very interesting loop, Kramnik beat Anand, Anand beat Adams, and Adams beat Kramnik. When the dust cleared Kramnik and Anand had the same score (6.0/9), and Kramnik was the winner since he had beaten Anand."
7.6.2008 3:55am