#Germany

Germany's longest-running super-tournament, founded in 1973 — a fortnight at the Westfalenhallen each summer, won by Kramnik a record ten times.

Germany's annual national championship — eleven-round Swiss in a single weekend each summer, with parallel open and women's sections.

Karlsruhe's annual Easter Swiss — Germany's largest open by entries (1,400+) and one of the strongest in Europe, run alongside the Grenke Freestyle Open since 2025.

Germany's first plausible world-championship contender since Emanuel Lasker — a calm positional grandmaster whose rise has paced the post-Carlsen era exactly.

The second world chess champion, holder of the title for twenty-seven years — the longest reign in the history of the championship.

The national governing body of chess in Germany — founded in 1877, the second-oldest national chess federation in the world after the United States.