Fabiano Caruana, Georg Meier and Vladimir Kramnik all won in the first round of the 41st Sparkassen Chess Meeting in Dortmund. Caruana slowly outplayed Andreikin with Black in a 4.e3 Grünfeld, Meier won a slightly better ending against Arkadij Naiditsch in a 4.Qb3 Grünfeld and Kramnik was a pawn up in a Slav against Wang Hao when the Chinese GM blundered a full rook.
