World No. 2, Chess player, NIIT Brand Ambassador, Vishy Anand will play his next tournament in Dortmund, Germany. The 27th Dortmund Chess Days is being held between 10th and 17th of July. The event will be a Category 19 single round robin event.

The participants are Viswanathan Anand, Vladimir Kramnik, Anatoly Karpov, Michael Adams, Veselin Topalov, Peter Leko, Jan Timman and Ivan Sokolov.

The opening ceremony will be held on the 9th of July. The drawing of lots or the tournament are always conducted one or two months prior to the event. The draw is as follows:

• Adams - Timman
• Anand - Topalov
• Leko - Kramnik
• Karpov - Sokolov

• Timman - Sokolov
• Kramnik - Karpov
• Topalov - Leko
• Adams - Anand

• Anand - Timman
• Leko - Adams
• Karpov - Topalov
• Sokolov- Kramnik

• Timman - Kramnik
• Topalov - Sokolov
• Adams - Karpov
• Anand - Leko

• Leko - Timman
• Karpov - Anand
• Sokolov- Adams
• Kramnik - Topalov

• Timman - Topalov
• Adams - Kramnik
• Anand - Sokolov
• Leko - Karpov

• Karpov - Timman
• Sokolov- Leko
• Kramnik - Anand
• Topalov - Adams

The Closing ceremony will be held on the 18th of July. This year the tournament has done away with the tradition of starting the last round at10:30 a.m. hence enabling the players to keep to their late to bed, late to rise schedule. The 13th will be a rest day. Other events like an Open tournament, simultaneous exhibitions are also being held as part of the event.

The Dortmund tournament is one of the most popular tournaments in Germany. They expect to have a live audience of a thousand people. There will also be Internet coverage on the following sites:

Anand was able to retain his title in the re-match by winning 2.5-1.5.

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Anand at the press conference after the match said "The first two games were very difficult, since I did not know what to expect from Fritz™. In fact it was only because I knew how to get Fritz™ into an end game that I was able to save the first game. However, for day two I was able to prepare adequately and the third and fourth games were smooth affairs."

Dortmund will be his last tournament before the big duel between Kasparov and Anand. Regarding the tournament Anand said, "The tournament always holds pleasant memories. I hope to do well".