The draw for this year's NC World Masters as part of the 50th International Dortmund Chess Days has been made. In the first round last year's winner Dmitrij Kollars will play 3-time Dortmund Champion Fabiano Caruana and Eljanow will play Dortmund's record winner Vladimir Kramnik.

The 50th International Dortmund Chess Days is not only characterised by world-class chess grandmasters in the field of participants, but also by the many other players in the open Sparkassen Open 2023. One of them has particularly much stage experience outside of chess: Matthias Deutschmann will take part in the A-Open of the Chess Days.

The 50th International Dortmund Chess Days will see the third edition of the Sportland NRW Cup. A mixture of the strongest youth players, women's national players and top-class title holders promises an exciting round robin tournament. Both IM norms and GM norms will be possible for the players. The tournament will start on 24.6 parallel to the open tournaments in the Goldsaal of the Dortmund Westfalenhallen. One round will be played daily, so that in the ten-player tournament everyone will play against everyone else in nine rounds.

The Grandmaster Tournament of the Chess Days remains a top-class event also after the 2002 Candidates Tournament. Summer after summer, several world-class players are now drawn to Dortmund. First and foremost the current World Champion Vladimir Kramnik, who will play in Dortmund every year until the end of his career in 2018. Kramnik is enough as a drawing card and advertising medium, but in sporting terms a superstar is not enough for a top tournament. The tournament, which is top-class on paper, is held in 2010 with an average of 2734 Elo points.