Two years after winning its inaugural edition, Heikki Westerinen came back to the Dortmunder Schachtage and produced one of the great runaway scores of the tournament's early history: 9½ from 11 in a strong twelve-player field, a point and a half clear of the runner-up.
A strong, Soviet-flavoured field
The 1975 edition again gathered twelve players for a single round-robin of 66 games. Among the guests were Vladimir Savon — who only four years earlier had stunned the chess world by winning the 1971 Soviet Championship in Leningrad ahead of Tal and Smyslov — the sharp Soviet attacker Viktor Kupreichik, the Yugoslav grandmaster Bruno Parma, and England's Raymond Keene.
Westerinen's second title
Westerinen was in top form, finishing on 9½/11 to win by a point and a half from Norway's Leif Øgaard on 8. Savon took third on 7½, ahead of Parma and the Polish player Jacek Bednarski, who shared fourth on 7. It was Westerinen's second Dortmund title, something only a few players have managed.
For a tournament still in its infancy, the presence of a recent Soviet champion and a clutch of international grandmasters showed how quickly Dortmund's young event was gaining stature.
Final standings
| # | Player | Score | Record | Games |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Westerinen, Heikki MJ | 9½/11 | +8 -0 =3 | games |
| 2 | Ogaard, Leif | 8/11 | +5 -0 =6 | games |
| 3 | Savon, Vladimir A | 7½/11 | +5 -1 =5 | games |
| =4 | Bednarski, Jacek B | 7/11 | +4 -1 =6 | games |
| =4 | Parma, Bruno | 7/11 | +3 -0 =8 | games |
| =6 | Kupreichik, Viktor D | 6½/11 | +5 -3 =3 | games |
| =6 | Pytel, Krzysztof | 6½/11 | +3 -1 =7 | games |
| =8 | Langeweg, Kick | 4½/11 | +3 -5 =3 | games |
| =8 | Keene, Raymond | 4½/11 | +1 -3 =7 | games |
| 10 | Ornstein, Axel | 3½/11 | +2 -6 =3 | games |
| 11 | Bachmann, Karlheinz | 1/11 | +0 -9 =2 | games |
| 12 | Beutelhoff, Josef | ½/11 | +0 -10 =1 | games |
Cross Table
| Rank | Player | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 11 | 12 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Westerinen, Heikki MJ | ½ | 1 | 1 | ½ | ½ | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | |
| 2 | Ogaard, Leif | ½ | ½ | ½ | ½ | 1 | ½ | 1 | ½ | 1 | 1 | 1 | |
| 3 | Savon, Vladimir A | 0 | ½ | ½ | ½ | ½ | ½ | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | |
| 4 | Bednarski, Jacek B | 0 | ½ | ½ | ½ | 1 | ½ | ½ | ½ | 1 | 1 | 1 | |
| 5 | Parma, Bruno | ½ | ½ | ½ | ½ | 1 | ½ | ½ | ½ | ½ | 1 | 1 | |
| 6 | Kupreichik, Viktor D | ½ | 0 | ½ | 0 | 0 | ½ | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | |
| 7 | Pytel, Krzysztof | 0 | ½ | ½ | ½ | ½ | ½ | 1 | ½ | ½ | 1 | 1 | |
| 8 | Langeweg, Kick | 0 | 0 | 0 | ½ | ½ | 0 | 0 | ½ | 1 | 1 | 1 | |
| 9 | Keene, Raymond | 0 | ½ | 0 | ½ | ½ | 0 | ½ | ½ | ½ | ½ | 1 | |
| 10 | Ornstein, Axel | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | ½ | 0 | ½ | 0 | ½ | 1 | 1 | |
| 11 | Bachmann, Karlheinz | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | ½ | 0 | ½ | |
| 12 | Beutelhoff, Josef | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | ½ |
Each cell shows the row player's recorded results against the column player. ● = same player.