| The Chess Oracle - Bundesliga 2000-2001 Results1 and Reports |
| Table |
1. Lübecker SV 15 79½:40½ 29- 1 2. SG Köln Porz 15 82½:37½ 27- 3 3. Solinger SG 15 84 :36 23- 7 4. SV Werder Bremen 15 64½:55½ 20-10 5. Hamburger SK 15 67 :53 19-11 6. TV Tegernsee 15 64½:55½ 18-12 7. USC Magdeburg 15 65 :55 17-13 8. SFR Neukölln 15 62½:57½ 17-13 9. Godesberger SK 15 60½:59½ 15-15 10. SK König Plauen 15 60 :60 14-16 11. SV Wattenscheid 15 56½:63½ 13-17 12. Castrop Rauxel 15 54 :66 11-19 13. Baiertal Schatt 15 48½:71½ 6-24 14. Schott Mainz 15 37½:82½ 6-24 15. König Tegel 15 36 :84 3-27 16. Gelsenkirchen 15 37½:82½ 2-28
| Results and Reports |
Round 14 and 15
Congratulations to Luebeck who are the new German Bundesliga champions for the first time! Although already practically assured of the title, Luebeck made it difficult for themselves by only just beating Magdeburg 4½-3½, with Shirov (ESP) losing to Rogozenko (ROM). But Nunn (ENG) and Hector (SWE) both won to take the full points.
Porz kept up the pressure with wins against Koenig Plauen and Tegernsee to come second. Solingen had two more excellent wins (with Sadler (ENG) winning both his games) to secure third place and in fact ended up with more board points than Luebeck and Porz.
Bremen were the only team to take any points off Luebeck, with McShane (ENG) beating Agdestein (NOR). This proved to be crucial in securing fourth place ahead of Hamburg who weren't able to beat Magdeburg in the Final Round. Hamburg beat Bremen 5½-2½. with former German champion Wahls (GER) beating McShane (ENG).
The four promotees from last year occupied the bottom four places and will thus return to the second division.
Round 14 results in detail:
Lübecker SV 4½-3½ USC Magdeburg Hamburger SK 5½-2½ SV Werder Bremen König Tegel 1½-6½ SV Wattenscheid SFR Neukölln 6 - 2 Castrop Rauxel SK König Plauen 3 - 5 SG Köln Porz TV Tegernsee 4½-3½ Godesberger SK Baiertal Schatt 1½-6½ Solinger SG Schott Mainz 4 - 4 Gelsenkirchen Lübecker SV 4½-3½ USC Magdeburg 1 Shirov 0 : 1 Rogozenko 3 4 Speelman ½ : ½ Slobodjan 4 5 Epishin ½ : ½ Baklan 5 6 Hodgson ½ : ½ Thesing 6 8 DeFirmian ½ : ½ Proehl 8 9 Nunn 1 : 0 Stolz 10 10 Hansen ½ : ½ Meier 13 11 Hector 1 : 0 Studeny 14 Hamburger SK 5½-2½ SV Werder Bremen 1 Ftacnik ½ : ½ Hracek 1 3 Kempinski 1 : 0 Babula 2 4 Hansen ½ : ½ Schandorff 3 5 Wahls 1 : 0 McShane 4 6 Mueller ½ : ½ Knaak 5 7 Gustafsson ½ : ½ Joachim 7 8 Heinemann ½ : ½ Meins 8 10 Reeh 1 : 0 Heissler 9 König Tegel 1½-6½ SV Wattenscheid 1 Rabiega 0 : 1 Nielsen 2 2 Muse 1 : 0 Hall 4 3 Paulsen 0 : 1 Holzke 6 4 Lipinsky 0 : 1 Ellers 8 5 Von Herman 0 : 1 Sjoedahl 9 7 Pachow ½ : ½ Straeter 10 9 Giemsa 0 : 1 Blecken 12 10 Lorenz 0 : 1 Lauzeningks 14 SFR Neukölln 6 - 2 Castrop Rauxel 1 Movsesian 1 : 0 Seul 6 2 Stohl ½ : ½ Watson 7 4 Bunzmann 1 : 0 Appel 8 5 Berndt 1 : 0 Bosch 10 7 Borriss ½ : ½ Dinstuhl 11 8 Polzin 0 : 1 Hennig 12 10 Poldauf 1 : 0 Brendel 13 12 Thiede 1 : 0 Lemmers 14 SK König Plauen 3 - 5 SG Köln Porz 1 Beliavsky ½ : ½ Lutz 1 2 Bischoff 0 : 1 Khalifman 2 4 Boensch 1 : 0 Timman 4 5 Kindermann 0 : 1 Vaganian 6 6 Espig 0 : 1 Hansen 8 10 Hackel ½ : ½ Graf 10 11 Kuraszkiewic 1 : 0 Nijboer 12 13 Haskamp 0 : 1 Van der Doel 14 TV Tegernsee 4½-3½ Godesberger SK 1 Khenkin ½ : ½ Dautov 1 2 Ribli 1 : 0 Kengis 3 4 Hertneck 0 : 1 Kveinys 5 6 Stangl 1 : 0 Langheinrich 6 7 Teske ½ : ½ Jackelen 7 8 Gross ½ : ½ Seger 8 10 Pezerovic 0 : 1 Schmidt 9 12 Bromberger 1 : 0 Breder 13 Baiertal Schatt 1½-6½ Solinger SG 1 Schlindwein 0 : 1 Kasimdzhanov 2 2 Doettling 0 : 1 Jussupow 4 3 Berg ½ : ½ Nikolic 5 4 Buhmann ½ : ½ Huebner 6 6 Duppel 0 : 1 Sadler 7 7 Meissner 0 : 1 Lobron 10 8 Koch 0 : 1 Naumann 13 9 Balzar ½ : ½ Schaefer 14 Schott Mainz 4 - 4 Gelsenkirchen 1 Balcerak ½ : ½ Feigin 1 2 Kosten 1 : 0 Kishnev 2 3 Cicak ½ : ½ Kalka 3 5 Vogler 1 : 0 Kotter 4 6 Wornath 1 : 0 Meessen 5 7 Neidhardt 0 : 1 Baumhus 6 8 Bewersdorff 0 : 1 Ahn 7 10 Grafl 0 : 1 Balster 8
Round 15 results in detail:
USC Magdeburg 4 - 4 Hamburger SK SV Werder Bremen 4 - 4 Lübecker SV SV Wattenscheid 3 - 5 SFR Neukölln Castrop Rauxel 5 - 3 König Tegel SG Köln Porz 5½-2½ TV Tegernsee Godesberger SK 3½-4½ SK König Plauen Solinger SG 7½- ½ Schott Mainz Gelsenkirchen 3 - 5 Baiertal Schatt USC Magdeburg 4 - 4 Hamburger SK 3 Rogozenko ½ : ½ Ftacnik 1 4 Slobodjan ½ : ½ Kempinski 3 5 Baklan ½ : ½ Hansen 4 6 Thesing 0 : 1 Wahls 5 8 Proehl ½ : ½ Mueller 6 10 Stolz 1 : 0 Gustafsson 7 13 Meier ½ : ½ Heinemann 8 14 Studeny ½ : ½ Reeh 10 SV Werder Bremen 4 - 4 Lübecker SV 1 Hracek ½ : ½ Shirov 1 2 Babula ½ : ½ Speelman 4 3 Schandorff ½ : ½ Hodgson 6 4 McShane 1 : 0 Agdestein 7 5 Knaak 0 : 1 DeFirmian 8 7 Joachim ½ : ½ Nunn 9 8 Meins ½ : ½ Hansen 10 9 Heissler ½ : ½ Hector 11 SV Wattenscheid 3 - 5 SFR Neukölln 2 Nielsen ½ : ½ Movsesian 1 4 Hall ½ : ½ Stohl 2 6 Holzke ½ : ½ Bunzmann 4 8 Ellers 0 : 1 Berndt 5 9 Sjoedahl ½ : ½ Borriss 7 10 Straeter 0 : 1 Polzin 8 12 Blecken 0 : 1 Poldauf 10 14 Lauzeningks 1 : 0 Rudolf 11 Castrop Rauxel 5 - 3 König Tegel 6 Seul 0 : 1 Rabiega 1 7 Watson 0 : 1 Muse 2 8 Appel 1 : 0 Paulsen 3 10 Bosch 1 : 0 Lipinsky 4 11 Dinstuhl 1 : 0 Von Herman 5 12 Hennig ½ : ½ Pachow 7 13 Brendel 1 : 0 Giemsa 9 14 Lemmers ½ : ½ Lorenz 10 SG Köln Porz 5½-2½ TV Tegernsee 1 Lutz 1 : 0 Khenkin 1 2 Khalifman ½ : ½ Ribli 2 4 Timman ½ : ½ Hertneck 4 6 Vaganian ½ : ½ Stangl 6 8 Hansen 1 : 0 Teske 7 10 Graf 0 : 1 Gross 8 12 Nijboer 1 : 0 Pezerovic 10 14 Van der Doel 1 : 0 Bromberger 12 Godesberger SK 3½-4½ SK König Plauen 1 Dautov ½ : ½ Beliavsky 1 3 Kengis ½ : ½ Bischoff 2 5 Kveinys 0 : 1 Boensch 4 6 Langheinrich 0 : 1 Kindermann 5 7 Jackelen 0 : 1 Espig 6 8 Seger 1 : 0 Lukasiewicz 7 9 Schmidt 1 : 0 Kuraszkiewic 11 13 Breder ½ : ½ Pfretzschner 12 Solinger SG 7½- ½ Schott Mainz 2 Kasimdzhanov 1 : 0 Balcerak 1 4 Jussupow 1 : 0 Kosten 2 5 Nikolic 1 : 0 Cicak 3 6 Huebner 1 : 0 Vogler 5 7 Sadler 1 : 0 Neidhardt 7 10 Lobron 1 : 0 Bewersdorff 8 13 Naumann 1 : 0 Grafl 10 14 Schaefer ½ : ½ Muraniy 11 Gelsenkirchen 3 - 5 Baiertal Schatt 1 Feigin ½ : ½ Schlindwein 1 2 Kishnev 1 : 0 Doettling 2 3 Kalka 0 : 1 Berg 3 4 Kotter ½ : ½ Buhmann 4 5 Meessen 0 : 1 Duppel 6 6 Baumhus ½ : ½ Meissner 7 7 Ahn ½ : ½ Koch 8 9 Schirbel 0 : 1 Balzar 9
Round 12 and 13
There were no major surprises in the penultimate Bundesliga weekend with the top four places remaining the same as all teams won both matches.
Solingen had Morozevich (RUS) return to top board but they only just won against Tegernsee 4½-3½; then the 6-2 win against Koenig Plauen was better, however Beliavsky (SLO) showed he can still hold his own against the top players by beating Morozevich. Luebeck had quite a strong team out, with Shirov (ESP) and Bareev (RUS) on the top two boards, and were untroubled against Wattenscheid and Castrop Rauxel. Porz had two convincing wins but remain three points behind and look like having to be satisfied with the runner-up position.
Further down the table, Hamburg and Magdeburg moved up after winning both times and now sit equal with Tegernsee; in fact these three teams have the same match (16) and game (46½) points. For Magdeburg, their players Rogozenko (ROM), Thesing (GER) and Georgiev (BUL) all obtained maximum points.
It was a bad weekend for Castrop Rauxel and Wattenscheid, who lost both matches, and are placed just above the bottom four promotees from last year.
Team results from Round 12 and 13 (Source: Axel Fritz):
Round 12 USC Magdeburg 5½-2½ Baiertal Schatt SV Werder Bremen 5½-2½ Schott Mainz Gelsenkirchen 2½-5½ SK König Plauen Solinger SG 4½-3½ TV Tegernsee Godesberger SK 4½-3½ König Tegel SG Köln Porz 6 - 2 SFR Neukölln Castrop Rauxel 3½-4½ Hamburger SK SV Wattenscheid 2 - 6 Lübecker SV Round 13 Baiertal Schatt 3 - 5 SV Werder Bremen Schott Mainz ½ -7½ USC Magdeburg SK König Plauen 2 - 6 Solinger SG TV Tegernsee 4½-3½ Gelsenkirchen König Tegel 1½-6½ SG Köln Porz SFR Neukölln 6½-1½ Godesberger SK Hamburger SK 5½-2½ SV Wattenscheid Lübecker SV 5½-2½ Castrop Rauxel
Full individual results for Round 12 and 13 (Source: DSB):
Round 12 USC Magdeburg 5½-2½ Baiertal Schatt 2 Onischuk ½ : ½ Schlindwein 1 3 Rogozenko 1 : 0 Doettling 2 4 Slobodjan ½ : ½ Berg 3 6 Thesing 1 : 0 Buhmann 4 7 Georgiev 1 : 0 Duppel 6 8 Proehl ½ : ½ Meissner 7 9 Markgraf ½ : ½ Koch 8 14 Studeny ½ : ½ Balzar 9 SV Werder Bremen 5½-2½ Schott Mainz 1 Hracek 1 : 0 Balcerak 1 2 Babula + : - Kosten 2 3 Schandorff ½ : ½ Cicak 3 4 McShane 1 : 0 Vogler 5 5 Knaak ½ : ½ Wornath 6 6 Pelletier 1 : 0 Bewersdorff 8 7 Joachim 0 : 1 Grafl 10 9 Heissler ½ : ½ Muraniy 11 Gelsenkirchen 2½-5½ SK König Plauen 1 Feigin 0 : 1 Beliavsky 1 2 Kishnev ½ : ½ Bischoff 2 3 Kalka 0 : 1 Boensch 4 4 Kotter 0 : 1 Kindermann 5 5 Meessen 1 : 0 Schaller 8 6 Baumhus 1 : 0 Sandner 9 7 Ahn 0 : 1 Hackel 10 9 Schirbel 0 : 1 Haskamp 13 Solinger SG 4½-3½ TV Tegernsee 1 Morozevich ½ : ½ Khenkin 1 2 Kasimdzhanov 1 : 0 Hertneck 4 4 Jussupow ½ : ½ Beim 5 6 Huebner 0 : 1 Teske 7 8 Emms 0 : 1 Gross 8 10 Lobron 1 : 0 Kachiani-Ger 9 13 Naumann ½ : ½ Pezerovic 10 14 Schaefer 1 : 0 Bromberger 12 Godesberger SK 4½-3½ König Tegel 1 Dautov ½ : ½ Rabiega 1 3 Kengis ½ : ½ Muse 2 5 Kveinys 1 : 0 Paulsen 3 6 Langheinrich 1 : 0 Lipinsky 4 7 Jackelen 1 : 0 Von Herman 5 8 Seger ½ : ½ Pachow 7 9 Schmidt 0 : 1 Giemsa 9 12 Heinbuch 0 : 1 Lorenz 10 SG Köln Porz 6 - 2 SFR Neukölln 1 Lutz ½ : ½ Movsesian 1 2 Khalifman 1 : 0 Stohl 2 3 Van Wely 1 : 0 Bunzmann 4 4 Timman 1 : 0 Brynell 6 6 Vaganian ½ : ½ Borriss 7 8 Hansen 1 : 0 Hellsten 9 10 Graf 0 : 1 Poldauf 10 12 Nijboer 1 : 0 Rudolf 11 Castrop Rauxel 3½-4½ Hamburger SK 1 Van der Ster 0 : 1 Ftacnik 1 2 Rozentalis 1 : 0 Hansen 4 3 Rogers 1 : 0 Wahls 5 4 King ½ : ½ Mueller 6 6 Seul 0 : 1 Gustafsson 7 7 Watson 0 : 1 Heinemann 8 8 Appel ½ : ½ Reeh 10 12 Hennig ½ : ½ Sebastian 14 SV Wattenscheid 2 - 6 Lübecker SV 2 Nielsen 0 : 1 Shirov 1 4 Hall 0 : 1 Bareev 3 5 Handke ½ : ½ Epishin 5 6 Holzke 1 : 0 Hodgson 6 10 Straeter ½ : ½ Agdestein 7 11 Franke 0 : 1 Hansen 10 12 Blecken 0 : 1 Hector 11 14 Lauzeningks 0 : 1 Mortensen 12 Round 13 Baiertal Schatt 3 - 5 SV Werder Bremen 1 Schlindwein ½ : ½ Hracek 1 2 Doettling ½ : ½ Babula 2 3 Berg 0 : 1 Schandorff 3 4 Buhmann 1 : 0 McShane 4 6 Duppel 0 : 1 Knaak 5 7 Meissner 1 : 0 Pelletier 6 8 Koch 0 : 1 Joachim 7 9 Balzar 0 : 1 Heissler 9 Schott Mainz ½ -7½ USC Magdeburg 1 Balcerak 0 : 1 Onischuk 2 3 Cicak 0 : 1 Rogozenko 3 4 Lisanti 0 : 1 Slobodjan 4 5 Vogler 0 : 1 Thesing 6 6 Wornath 0 : 1 Georgiev 7 8 Bewersdorff 0 : 1 Proehl 8 10 Grafl 0 : 1 Markgraf 9 11 Muraniy ½ : ½ Studeny 14 SK König Plauen 2 - 6 Solinger SG 1 Beliavsky 1 : 0 Morozevich 1 2 Bischoff 0 : 1 Kasimdzhanov 2 4 Boensch 0 : 1 Jussupow 4 5 Kindermann ½ : ½ Huebner 6 8 Schaller 0 : 1 Emms 8 9 Sandner 0 : 1 Lobron 10 10 Hackel 0 : 1 Naumann 13 13 Haskamp ½ : ½ Schaefer 14 TV Tegernsee 4½-3½ Gelsenkirchen 1 Khenkin ½ : ½ Feigin 1 4 Hertneck ½ : ½ Kishnev 2 5 Beim ½ : ½ Kalka 3 7 Teske 1 : 0 Kotter 4 8 Gross 0 : 1 Meessen 5 9 Kachiani-Ger ½ : ½ Ahn 7 10 Pezerovic ½ : ½ Hille 10 12 Bromberger 1 : 0 Wiechen 14 König Tegel 1½-6½ SG Köln Porz 1 Rabiega ½ : ½ Lutz 1 2 Muse 0 : 1 Khalifman 2 3 Paulsen 0 : 1 Van Wely 3 4 Lipinsky 0 : 1 Timman 4 5 Von Herman 0 : 1 Vaganian 6 7 Pachow 0 : 1 Hansen 8 9 Giemsa 0 : 1 Graf 10 10 Lorenz 1 : 0 Nijboer 12 SFR Neukölln 6½-1½ Godesberger SK 1 Movsesian 1 : 0 Dautov 1 2 Stohl 0 : 1 Kengis 3 4 Bunzmann 1 : 0 Kveinys 5 6 Brynell 1 : 0 Langheinrich 6 7 Borriss ½ : ½ Jackelen 7 8 Polzin 1 : 0 Seger 8 9 Hellsten 1 : 0 Schmidt 9 10 Poldauf 1 : 0 Heinbuch 12 Hamburger SK 5½-2½ SV Wattenscheid 1 Ftacnik ½ : ½ Nielsen 2 4 Hansen 1 : 0 Hall 4 5 Wahls 1 : 0 Handke 5 6 Mueller ½ : ½ Holzke 6 7 Gustafsson ½ : ½ Straeter 10 8 Heinemann ½ : ½ Franke 11 10 Reeh ½ : ½ Blecken 12 14 Sebastian 1 : 0 Lauzeningks 14 Lübecker SV 5½-2½ Castrop Rauxel 1 Shirov ½ : ½ Van der Ster 1 3 Bareev 1 : 0 Rozentalis 2 5 Epishin ½ : ½ Rogers 3 6 Hodgson 1 : 0 King 4 7 Agdestein 1 : 0 Seul 6 10 Hansen ½ : ½ Watson 7 11 Hector 0 : 1 Appel 8 12 Mortensen 1 : 0 Hennig 12
Round 10 and 11
A hard fought weekend has put Luebeck in a very strong position after beating Porz by the narrowest of margins to put themselves three points clear with four rounds to play. There is a select band of three clubs that have won the Bundesliga in its 20 year history which are: Bayern Muenchen, Porz and Solingen. Luebeck are looking likely to join this group and make a little history.
Luebeck fielded four English players: Adams, Speelman, Hodgson and Nunn on the even boards and it proved to be a good move since Speelman and Hodgson both won against Porz and secured the match win. Graf, the chess player formerly known as Nenashev, played on bottom board for Porz and is now a German citizen. Luebeck also beat Godesberg 6-2 with the English grandmasters Speelman and Hodgson again both winning.
Solingen had two very big wins, 6-2 against Neukoelln and 8-0 against Koenig Tegel; however this is too late to affect the top placings but at least a third place would restore some pride. Sadler (ENG) won both his games. Further down Tegernsee has started to make a charge winning both games, albeit against weaker opposition and now sit one point behind Bremen. McShane (ENG) had a solid weekend with 1½/2 for Bremen while Babula (CZE) shone on Board 2.
Magdeburg have pulled their socks up and won both their matches; in Round 10 by 4½-3½ against Wattenscheid and then 6-2 against Castrop Rauxel. This has put Castrop Rauxel effectively in 'last' place just above all the promoted teams from last year. King (ENG) had a particularly unsuccessful weekend after losing both games.
Hamburg had a tough weekend, first losing to Porz but then drawing with Godesberg, which they were probably somewhat disappointed about. Schott Mainz continue to pick up points, this time drawing with Koenig Plauen, with Kosten (ENG) playing on Board 2.
Full results from Round 10 and 11 (Source: HSK Newsletter #18)
Round 10 SV Wattenscheid 3½-4½ USC Magdeburg Castrop Rauxel 4 - 4 SV Werder Bremen Hamburger SK 2½-5½ SG Köln Porz Lübecker SV 6 - 2 Godesberger SK SFR Neukölln 2 - 6 Solinger SG König Tegel 4½-3½ Gelsenkirchen TV Tegernsee 5½-2½ Baiertal Schatt SK König Plauen 4 - 4 Schott Mainz SV Wattenscheid 3½-4½ USC Magdeburg 1 Aronian ½ : ½ Onischuk 2 2 Nielsen 1 : 0 Rogozenko 3 5 Handke 0 : 1 Slobodjan 4 6 Holzke ½ : ½ Baklan 5 8 Ellers ½ : ½ Thesing 6 10 Straeter 0 : 1 Georgiev 7 12 Blecken 0 : 1 Proehl 8 13 Thiel 1 : 0 Markgraf 9 Castrop Rauxel 4 - 4 SV Werder Bremen 1 Van der Ster ½ : ½ Hracek 1 2 Rozentalis 0 : 1 Babula 2 4 King 0 : 1 Schandorff 3 5 Gallagher ½ : ½ McShane 4 6 Seul 1 : 0 Knaak 5 8 Appel 1 : 0 Pelletier 6 11 Dinstuhl 0 : 1 Joachim 7 12 Hennig 1 : 0 Meins 8 Hamburger SK 2½-5½ SG Köln Porz 1 Ftacnik 0 : 1 Lutz 1 2 Dorfman ½ : ½ Khalifman 2 3 Kempinski 1 : 0 Van Wely 3 4 Hansen 1 : 0 Timman 4 5 Wahls 0 : 1 Vaganian 6 6 Mueller 0 : 1 Hansen 8 7 Gustafsson 0 : 1 Bacrot 9 8 Heinemann 0 : 1 Graf 10 Lübecker SV 6 - 2 Godesberger SK 1 Shirov ½ : ½ Dautov 1 2 Adams ½ : ½ Gurevich 2 3 Bareev ½ : ½ Kengis 3 4 Speelman 1 : 0 Kveinys 5 5 Epishin 1 : 0 Langheinrich 6 6 Hodgson 1 : 0 Jackelen 7 7 Agdestein 1 : 0 Seger 8 9 Nunn ½ : ½ Breder 13 SFR Neukölln 2 - 6 Solinger SG 1 Movsesian ½ : ½ Piket 3 2 Stohl ½ : ½ Jussupow 4 4 Bunzmann 0 : 1 Nikolic 5 7 Borriss 0 : 1 Huebner 6 8 Polzin 0 : 1 Sadler 7 9 Hellsten ½ : ½ Lobron 10 10 Poldauf 0 : 1 Naumann 13 11 Rudolf ½ : ½ Schaefer 14 König Tegel 4½-3½ Gelsenkirchen 1 Rabiega 0 : 1 Kishnev 2 2 Muse ½ : ½ Kalka 3 3 Paulsen 1 : 0 Meessen 5 4 Lipinsky 1 : 0 Baumhus 6 5 Von Herman 1 : 0 Ahn 7 7 Pachow ½ : ½ Balster 8 9 Giemsa ½ : ½ Partenheimer 11 10 Lorenz 0 : 1 Orlov 12 TV Tegernsee 5½-2½ Baiertal Schatt 1 Khenkin ½ : ½ Schlindwein 1 4 Hertneck ½ : ½ Doettling 2 5 Beim 1 : 0 Berg 3 6 Stangl ½ : ½ Buhmann 4 7 Teske 1 : 0 Duppel 6 9 Kachiani-Ger 0 : 1 Meissner 7 10 Pezerovic 1 : 0 Koch 8 12 Bromberger 1 : 0 Balzar 9 SK König Plauen 4 - 4 Schott Mainz 2 Bischoff 1 : 0 Balcerak 1 4 Boensch ½ : ½ Kosten 2 5 Kindermann ½ : ½ Cicak 3 6 Espig 0 : 1 Lisanti 4 9 Sandner 0 : 1 Wornath 6 10 Hackel 1 : 0 Neidhardt 7 11 Kuraszkiewic ½ : ½ Bewersdorff 8 12 Pfretzschner ½ : ½ Grafl 10 Round 11 USC Magdeburg 6 - 2 Castrop Rauxel SV Werder Bremen 6½-1½ SV Wattenscheid SG Köln Porz 3½-4½ Lübecker SV Godesberger SK 4 - 4 Hamburger SK Solinger SG 8 - 0 König Tegel Gelsenkirchen 3 - 5 SFR Neukölln Baiertal Schatt 4 - 4 SK König Plauen Schott Mainz 1½-6½ TV Tegernsee USC Magdeburg 6 - 2 Castrop Rauxel 2 Onischuk ½ : ½ Van der Ster 1 3 Rogozenko ½ : ½ Rozentalis 2 4 Slobodjan 1 : 0 King 4 5 Baklan 1 : 0 Gallagher 5 6 Thesing 1 : 0 Seul 6 7 Georgiev 1 : 0 Appel 8 8 Proehl ½ : ½ Dinstuhl 11 9 Markgraf ½ : ½ Hennig 12 SV Werder Bremen 6½-1½ SV Wattenscheid 1 Hracek ½ : ½ Aronian 1 2 Babula 1 : 0 Nielsen 2 3 Schandorff ½ : ½ Holzke 6 4 McShane 1 : 0 Ellers 8 5 Knaak 1 : 0 Straeter 10 6 Pelletier 1 : 0 Blecken 12 7 Joachim ½ : ½ Thiel 13 8 Meins 1 : 0 Lauzeningks 14 SG Köln Porz 3½-4½ Lübecker SV 1 Lutz ½ : ½ Shirov 1 2 Khalifman ½ : ½ Adams 2 3 Van Wely ½ : ½ Bareev 3 4 Timman 0 : 1 Speelman 4 6 Vaganian ½ : ½ Epishin 5 8 Hansen 0 : 1 Hodgson 6 9 Bacrot 1 : 0 Agdestein 7 10 Graf ½ : ½ Nunn 9 Godesberger SK 4 - 4 Hamburger SK 1 Dautov ½ : ½ Ftacnik 1 2 Gurevich ½ : ½ Dorfman 2 3 Kengis ½ : ½ Kempinski 3 5 Kveinys 1 : 0 Hansen 4 6 Langheinrich ½ : ½ Wahls 5 7 Jackelen 0 : 1 Mueller 6 8 Seger 1 : 0 Gustafsson 7 13 Breder 0 : 1 Heinemann 8 Solinger SG 8 - 0 König Tegel 3 Piket 1 : 0 Rabiega 1 4 Jussupow 1 : 0 Muse 2 5 Nikolic 1 : 0 Paulsen 3 6 Huebner 1 : 0 Lipinsky 4 7 Sadler 1 : 0 Von Herman 5 10 Lobron 1 : 0 Pachow 7 13 Naumann 1 : 0 Giemsa 9 14 Schaefer 1 : 0 Lorenz 10 Gelsenkirchen 3 - 5 SFR Neukölln 2 Kishnev 1 : 0 Movsesian 1 3 Kalka 0 : 1 Stohl 2 5 Meessen 0 : 1 Bunzmann 4 6 Baumhus ½ : ½ Borriss 7 7 Ahn 0 : 1 Polzin 8 8 Balster 0 : 1 Hellsten 9 9 Schirbel 1 : 0 Rudolf 11 12 Orlov ½ : ½ Thiede 12 Baiertal Schatt 4 - 4 SK König Plauen 1 Schlindwein 0 : 1 Bischoff 2 2 Doettling ½ : ½ Boensch 4 3 Berg ½ : ½ Kindermann 5 4 Buhmann 1 : 0 Espig 6 6 Duppel ½ : ½ Sandner 9 7 Meissner ½ : ½ Hackel 10 8 Koch 0 : 1 Kuraszkiewic 11 9 Balzar 1 : 0 Pfretzschner 12 Schott Mainz 1½-6½ TV Tegernsee 1 Balcerak 0 : 1 Khenkin 1 2 Kosten 0 : 1 Hertneck 4 3 Cicak ½ : ½ Beim 5 4 Lisanti 0 : 1 Stangl 6 6 Wornath 0 : 1 Teske 7 7 Neidhardt 0 : 1 Kachiani-Ger 9 8 Bewersdorff ½ : ½ Pezerovic 10 10 Grafl ½ : ½ Bromberger 12
Round 8 and 9
It was a bad weekend for Solingen, losing first to Hamburg 3-5 and then Luebeck 3½-4½, thus effectively ending any title aspirations they may have harboured. So with Luebeck and Porz winning both their matches we now have a two-horse race, with the crunch match taking place on 11 March in Round 11 between these two teams.
Luebeck pulled all the stops out in order to retain their top place with Shirov (ESP), Adams (ENG) and Bareev (RUS) playing on the top three Boards and even Nunn (ENG) on Board 8, probably the lowest position he has occupied since he played for Huntingfield Primary School. In fact with Speelman (ENG) and Hodgson (ENG) also playing, Luebeck practically fielded the England team.
The match Luebeck-Solingen brought three further top English players onto the scene with Sadler (ENG), Emms (ENG) and Chandler (ENG) playing. If that was not enough other Englishmen taking part were: McShane (ENG-Werder Bremen), Kosten (ENG-Schott Mainz), King (ENG-Castrop Rauxel) and Watson (ENG-Castrop Rauxel).
Godesberg and Werder Bremen won both their matches to leapfrog over Solingen pushing the former champions into an unaccustomed 5th position. In addition Hamburg took the full points after beating Solingen and Gelsenkirchen, they still have Porz to play and could yet cause a further upset since they often make life difficult for the higher rated team from Cologne.
The table after Round 9 is (Source - DSB):
1. Lübecker SV 9 49 :23 18- 0 2. SG Köln Porz 9 50½:21½ 17- 1 3. Godesberger SK 9 41½:30½ 12- 6 4. SV Werder Bremen 9 37 :35 12- 6 5. Solinger SG 9 45½:26½ 11- 7 6. Hamburger SK 9 41 :31 11- 7 7. SV Wattenscheid 9 37½:34½ 11- 7 8. TV Tegernsee 9 37½:34½ 10- 8 9. SFR Neukölln 9 36 :36 9- 9 10. SK König Plauen 9 37 :35 8-10 11. Castrop Rauxel 9 35 :37 8-10 12. USC Magdeburg 9 34 :38 8-10 13. Schott Mainz 9 24½:47½ 4-14 14. Baiertal Schatt 9 30 :42 3-15 15. König Tegel 9 22 :50 1-17 16. Gelsenkirchen 9 18 :54 1-17
Full results from Round 8 and 9 (Source - DSB):
Round 8 SV Werder Bremen 5 - 3 SK König Plauen USC Magdeburg 2½-5½ TV Tegernsee Schott Mainz 5 - 3 König Tegel Baiertal Schatt 3½-4½ SFR Neukölln Solinger SG 3 - 5 Hamburger SK Gelsenkirchen 1½-6½ Lübecker SV SG Köln Porz 5½-2½ SV Wattenscheid Godesberger SK 5½-2½ Castrop Rauxel SV Werder Bremen 5 - 3 SK König Plauen 1 Hracek ½ : ½ Beliavsky 1 2 Babula ½ : ½ Bischoff 2 3 Schandorff 1 : 0 Gdanski 3 4 McShane ½ : ½ Kindermann 5 6 Pelletier ½ : ½ Espig 6 7 Joachim 1 : 0 Sandner 9 8 Meins 1 : 0 Hackel 10 9 Heissler 0 : 1 Haskamp 13 USC Magdeburg 2½-5½ TV Tegernsee 2 Onischuk ½ : ½ Khenkin 1 4 Slobodjan ½ : ½ Ribli 2 5 Baklan ½ : ½ Bauer 3 6 Thesing - : + Hertneck 4 7 Georgiev 1 : 0 Stangl 6 8 Proehl 0 : 1 Kachiani-Ger 9 9 Markgraf 0 : 1 Pezerovic 10 13 Meier 0 : 1 Bromberger 12 Schott Mainz 5 - 3 König Tegel 2 Kosten 1 : 0 Rabiega 1 3 Cicak ½ : ½ Muse 2 4 Lisanti 0 : 1 Paulsen 3 5 Vogler 0 : 1 Lipinsky 4 6 Wornath ½ : ½ Von Herman 5 7 Neidhardt 1 : 0 Pachow 7 8 Bewersdorff 1 : 0 Lorenz 10 10 Grafl 1 : 0 Zierke 11 Baiertal Schatt 3½-4½ SFR Neukölln 1 Schlindwein 0 : 1 Movsesian 1 2 Doettling ½ : ½ Stohl 2 3 Berg 0 : 1 Bunzmann 4 4 Buhmann ½ : ½ Berndt 5 5 Maier ½ : ½ Brynell 6 6 Duppel 1 : 0 Poldauf 10 7 Meissner ½ : ½ Rudolf 11 9 Balzar ½ : ½ Thiede 12 Solinger SG 3 - 5 Hamburger SK 2 Kasimdzhanov 1 : 0 Ftacnik 1 4 Jussupow ½ : ½ Dorfman 2 5 Nikolic 0 : 1 Kempinski 3 6 Huebner ½ : ½ Hansen 4 7 Sadler 0 : 1 Wahls 5 8 Emms ½ : ½ Mueller 6 9 Chandler 0 : 1 Heinemann 8 13 Naumann ½ : ½ Reeh 10 Gelsenkirchen 1½-6½ Lübecker SV 1 Feigin ½ : ½ Shirov 1 2 Kishnev 0 : 1 Adams 2 3 Kalka 0 : 1 Bareev 3 5 Meessen 0 : 1 Speelman 4 6 Baumhus ½ : ½ Hodgson 6 8 Balster ½ : ½ Agdestein 7 9 Schirbel 0 : 1 DeFirmian 8 11 Partenheimer 0 : 1 Nunn 9 SG Köln Porz 5½-2½ SV Wattenscheid 1 Lutz ½ : ½ Aronian 1 2 Khalifman 1 : 0 Nielsen 2 3 Van Wely 0 : 1 Hall 4 6 Vaganian 1 : 0 Handke 5 8 Hansen ½ : ½ Holzke 6 9 Bacrot ½ : ½ Straeter 10 10 Nenasev 1 : 0 Blecken 12 14 Van der Doel 1 : 0 Thiel 13 Godesberger SK 5½-2½ Castrop Rauxel 1 Dautov ½ : ½ Van der Ster 1 2 Gurevich 1 : 0 Rozentalis 2 3 Kengis 0 : 1 Rogers 3 5 Kveinys 1 : 0 King 4 6 Langheinrich 1 : 0 Seul 6 7 Jackelen ½ : ½ Watson 7 8 Seger ½ : ½ Bosch 10 13 Breder 1 : 0 Hennig 12 Round 9 SK König Plauen 5½-2½ USC Magdeburg TV Tegernsee 3½-4½ SV Werder Bremen König Tegel 2 - 6 Baiertal Schatt SFR Neukölln 4½-3½ Schott Mainz Hamburger SK 6 - 2 Gelsenkirchen Lübecker SV 4½-3½ Solinger SG SV Wattenscheid 2 - 6 Godesberger SK Castrop Rauxel 2½-5½ SG Köln Porz SK König Plauen 5½-2½ USC Magdeburg 1 Beliavsky ½ : ½ Onischuk 2 2 Bischoff ½ : ½ Slobodjan 4 3 Gdanski ½ : ½ Baklan 5 5 Kindermann 1 : 0 Thesing 6 6 Espig 0 : 1 Georgiev 7 9 Sandner 1 : 0 Markgraf 9 10 Hackel 1 : 0 Darnstaedt 11 13 Haskamp 1 : 0 Meier 13 TV Tegernsee 3½-4½ SV Werder Bremen 1 Khenkin ½ : ½ Hracek 1 2 Ribli ½ : ½ Babula 2 3 Bauer 1 : 0 Schandorff 3 4 Hertneck ½ : ½ McShane 4 6 Stangl 0 : 1 Pelletier 6 9 Kachiani-Ger 1 : 0 Joachim 7 10 Pezerovic 0 : 1 Meins 8 12 Bromberger 0 : 1 Heissler 9 König Tegel 2 - 6 Baiertal Schatt 1 Rabiega ½ : ½ Schlindwein 1 2 Muse ½ : ½ Doettling 2 3 Paulsen 0 : 1 Berg 3 4 Lipinsky 0 : 1 Buhmann 4 5 Von Herman 1 : 0 Maier 5 7 Pachow 0 : 1 Duppel 6 10 Lorenz 0 : 1 Meissner 7 11 Zierke 0 : 1 Balzar 9 SFR Neukölln 4½-3½ Schott Mainz 1 Movsesian ½ : ½ Balcerak 1 2 Stohl ½ : ½ Kosten 2 4 Bunzmann 1 : 0 Cicak 3 5 Berndt ½ : ½ Lisanti 4 6 Brynell 1 : 0 Vogler 5 8 Polzin 1 : 0 Wornath 6 10 Poldauf 0 : 1 Neidhardt 7 12 Thiede 0 : 1 Bewersdorff 8 Hamburger SK 6 - 2 Gelsenkirchen 1 Ftacnik 0 : 1 Feigin 1 2 Dorfman 1 : 0 Kishnev 2 3 Kempinski 1 : 0 Kalka 3 4 Hansen 1 : 0 Baumhus 6 5 Wahls 1 : 0 Balster 8 6 Mueller 0 : 1 Schirbel 9 8 Heinemann 1 : 0 Partenheimer 11 10 Reeh 1 : 0 Wiechen 14 Lübecker SV 4½-3½ Solinger SG 1 Shirov 1 : 0 Kasimdzhanov 2 2 Adams ½ : ½ Piket 3 3 Bareev ½ : ½ Jussupow 4 4 Speelman ½ : ½ Nikolic 5 6 Hodgson ½ : ½ Huebner 6 7 Agdestein ½ : ½ Sadler 7 8 DeFirmian 0 : 1 Emms 8 9 Nunn 1 : 0 Chandler 9 SV Wattenscheid 2 - 6 Godesberger SK 1 Aronian 0 : 1 Dautov 1 2 Nielsen ½ : ½ Gurevich 2 4 Hall ½ : ½ Kengis 3 5 Handke 0 : 1 Kveinys 5 6 Holzke ½ : ½ Langheinrich 6 10 Straeter 0 : 1 Jackelen 7 12 Blecken ½ : ½ Seger 8 13 Thiel 0 : 1 Breder 13 Castrop Rauxel 2½-5½ SG Köln Porz 1 Van der Ster ½ : ½ Lutz 1 2 Rozentalis ½ : ½ Khalifman 2 3 Rogers 0 : 1 Van Wely 3 4 King ½ : ½ Vaganian 6 6 Seul ½ : ½ Hansen 8 7 Watson 0 : 1 Bacrot 9 10 Bosch ½ : ½ Nenasev 10 13 Brendel 0 : 1 Van der Doel 14
See the German Chess Federation (DSB) Official Site for more information.
The results for Round 6 (Source: DSB) were:
Godesberger SK 5 - 3 USC Magdeburg SG Köln Porz 6 - 2 SV Werder Bremen Castrop Rauxel 2 - 6 Solinger SG SV Wattenscheid 6 - 2 Gelsenkirchen Lübecker SV 5 - 3 Baiertal Schatt Hamburger SK 6 - 2 Schott Mainz König Tegel 1½-6½ SK König Plauen SFR Neukölln 4 - 4 TV Tegernsee
There were no real surprises in Round 6 although Luebeck were not particularly convincing against Baiertal. Individual match results included:
Lübecker SV 5 - 3 Baiertal Schatt 3 Bareev 1 : 0 Schlindwein 1 4 Speelman 0 : 1 Berg 3 6 Hodgson 0 : 1 Buhmann 4 8 DeFirmian 1 : 0 Koch 8 9 Nunn ½ : ½ Balzar 9 11 Hector 1 : 0 Schulzke 10 12 Mortensen ½ : ½ Gamer 12 13 Cladouras 1 : 0 Gubler 14 Castrop Rauxel 2 - 6 Solinger SG 1 Van der Ster 0 : 1 Kasimdzhanov 2 3 Rogers ½ : ½ Jussupow 4 5 Gallagher 0 : 1 Nikolic 5 8 Appel ½ : ½ Huebner 6 9 Hoffmann 0 : 1 Sadler 7 11 Dinstuhl ½ : ½ Lobron 10 13 Brendel 0 : 1 Rowson 12 14 Lemmers ½ : ½ Naumann 13
Round 7 results were more interesting:
USC Magdeburg 3 - 5 SG Köln Porz SV Werder Bremen 4½-3½ Godesberger SK Solinger SG 3½-4½ SV Wattenscheid Gelsenkirchen 4 - 4 Castrop Rauxel Baiertal Schatt 4 - 4 Hamburger SK Schott Mainz 1 - 7 Lübecker SV SK König Plauen 5½-2½ SFR Neukölln TV Tegernsee 4 - 4 König Tegel
Magdeburg put up a good fight against Porz just losing on the bottom boards, however the shock of the Round was Solingen losing to Wattenscheid 3½-4½ which has effectively ended their title aspirations.
At the other end of the table it was a good Round for the promoted teams with Gelsenkirchen, Koenig Tegel and Baiertal all going home with a point, taken off Castrop Rauxel, Tegernsee and Hamburg respectively. Luebeck made no mistake against Schott Mainz with a clear 7-1 victory.
USC Magdeburg 3 - 5 SG Köln Porz 2 Onischuk ½ : ½ Lutz 1 3 Rogozenko ½ : ½ Khalifman 2 4 Slobodjan ½ : ½ Vaganian 6 5 Baklan ½ : ½ Andersson 7 6 Thesing ½ : ½ Hansen 8 7 Georgiev ½ : ½ Bacrot 9 8 Proehl 0 : 1 Nenasev 10 10 Stolz 0 : 1 Van der Doel 14 Solinger SG 3½-4½ SV Wattenscheid 2 Kasimdzhanov 0 : 1 Aronian 1 4 Jussupow 0 : 1 Nielsen 2 5 Nikolic ½ : ½ Rustemov 3 6 Huebner 1 : 0 Hall 4 7 Sadler 1 : 0 Holzke 6 10 Lobron 0 : 1 Ellers 8 12 Rowson 0 : 1 Straeter 10 13 Naumann 1 : 0 Franke 11 Schott Mainz 1 - 7 Lübecker SV 1 Balcerak 0 : 1 Bareev 3 3 Cicak 0 : 1 Speelman 4 4 Lisanti 0 : 1 Hodgson 6 8 Bewersdorff 0 : 1 DeFirmian 8 9 Kienast 0 : 1 Nunn 9 10 Grafl 0 : 1 Hector 11 12 Ottstadt ½ : ½ Mortensen 12 13 Ramlow ½ : ½ Cladouras 13
The full results for Round 5 are available with two close matches for Koeln and Luebeck after both won 4½-3½ against Godesberger and Hamburg respectively. Solingen had an easy win against Gelsenkirchen, one of the newly promoted teams. Schott Mainz became the first promoted team to obtain any points after beating fellow promotee Baiertal Schatt.
The Luebeck-Hamburg games can be played through at the Hamburg website.
The full pairings and results are:
Godesberger SK 3½-4½ SG Köln Porz Gelsenkirchen ½ -7½ Solinger SG SV Wattenscheid 4 - 4 Castrop Rauxel Lübecker SV 4½-3½ Hamburger SK SV Werder Bremen 2½-5½ USC Magdeburg TV Tegernsee 5½-2½ SK König Plauen Schott Mainz 4½-3½ Baiertal Schatt SFR Neukölln 6 - 2 König Tegel
Round 4 saw the first encounter between the 'big three' with Porz taking on Solingen; the teams were well matched and ended in a 4-4 draw. Wins by Morozevich (RUS) and Piket (NED) against Lutz (GER) and Timman (NED) were cancelled out by wins for Van Wely (NED) and Nenashev (GER) versus Kasimdzhanov (UZB) and Chandler (ENG). Both Kasimdzhanov and Chandler are normally super-solid in the Bundesliga.
This allowed Luebeck to take top position in the league after beating Koenig Plauen 5-3 which must be the first time in many years that neither Porz nor Solingen have led.
Castrop Rauxel completed a good weekend by beating Baiertal with Van der Sterren (NED) winning both games on top board. Schott mainz came very close to being the first promoted team to bot lose but in the end went down by the smallest margin 3½-4½ to Wattenscheid.
Magdeburg completed a double at the weekend by beating Neukoelln who lost both matches. Hamburg recovered to beat a strong Tegernsee team and will be happy tohave 2 more points since their next opponent is Luebeck. Games at the HSK website.
Finally, Bremen will also be pleased after beating Koenig Tegel to chalk up to wins with Schandorff (DEN) winning twice.
All games in PGN from GM Schach.
König Tegel 2½-5½ SV Werder Bremen SFR Neukölln 3 - 5 USC Magdeburg Hamburger SK 5 - 3 TV Tegernsee Lübecker SV 5 - 3 SK König Plauen SV Wattenscheid 4½-3½ Schott Mainz Castrop Rauxel 5 - 3 Baiertal Schatt SG Köln Porz 4 - 4 Solinger SG Godesberger SK 5½-2½ Gelsenkirchen König Tegel 2½-5½ SV Werder Bremen 1 Rabiega ½ : ½ Hracek 1 2 Muse ½ : ½ Babula 2 3 Paulsen 0 : 1 Schandorff 3 4 Lipinsky ½ : ½ McShane 4 5 Von Herman 0 : 1 Knaak 5 6 Fette 0 : 1 Pelletier 6 7 Pachow 1 : 0 Meins 8 9 Giemsa 0 : 1 Heissler 9 SFR Neukölln 3 - 5 USC Magdeburg 2 Stohl 0 : 1 Onischuk 2 3 Atalik ½ : ½ Rogozenko 3 4 Bunzmann ½ : ½ Slobodjan 4 5 Berndt ½ : ½ Baklan 5 6 Brynell ½ : ½ Thesing 6 7 Borriss 0 : 1 Georgiev 7 8 Polzin ½ : ½ Proehl 8 12 Thiede ½ : ½ Meier 13 Hamburger SK 5 - 3 TV Tegernsee 1 Ftacnik ½ : ½ Khenkin 1 2 Dorfman ½ : ½ Ribli 2 3 Kempinski 1 : 0 Bauer 3 6 Mueller ½ : ½ Hertneck 4 7 Gustafsson ½ : ½ Stangl 6 8 Heinemann ½ : ½ Teske 7 10 Reeh ½ : ½ Gross 8 14 Sebastian 1 : 0 Pezerovic 10 Lübecker SV 5 - 3 SK König Plauen 5 Epishin ½ : ½ Beliavsky 1 6 Hodgson ½ : ½ Bischoff 2 7 Agdestein 1 : 0 Boensch 4 8 DeFirmian 0 : 1 Kindermann 5 9 Nunn ½ : ½ Espig 6 10 Hansen 1 : 0 Schaller 8 11 Hector 1 : 0 Sandner 9 12 Mortensen ½ : ½ Kuraszkiewic 11 SV Wattenscheid 4½-3½ Schott Mainz 1 Aronian ½ : ½ Balcerak 1 2 Nielsen ½ : ½ Kosten 2 3 Rustemov ½ : ½ Cicak 3 5 Handke 1 : 0 Lisanti 4 6 Holzke ½ : ½ Vogler 5 8 Ellers 1 : 0 Wornath 6 10 Straeter 0 : 1 Neidhardt 7 13 Thiel ½ : ½ Treppner 14 Castrop Rauxel 5 - 3 Baiertal Schatt 1 Van der Ster 1 : 0 Schlindwein 1 4 King 1 : 0 Doettling 2 5 Gallagher ½ : ½ Buhmann 4 6 Seul 0 : 1 Duppel 6 8 Appel ½ : ½ Meissner 7 9 Hoffmann ½ : ½ Koch 8 11 Dinstuhl ½ : ½ Balzar 9 12 Hennig 1 : 0 Schulzke 10 SG Köln Porz 4 - 4 Solinger SG 1 Lutz 0 : 1 Morozevich 1 3 Van Wely 1 : 0 Kasimdzhanov 2 4 Timman 0 : 1 Piket 3 5 Sokolov ½ : ½ Jussupow 4 6 Vaganian ½ : ½ Huebner 6 7 Andersson ½ : ½ Sadler 7 8 Hansen ½ : ½ Emms 8 10 Nenasev 1 : 0 Chandler 9 Godesberger SK 5½-2½ Gelsenkirchen 1 Dautov 1 : 0 Feigin 1 2 Gurevich 1 : 0 Kalka 3 3 Kengis 1 : 0 Kotter 4 4 David ½ : ½ Meessen 5 5 Kveinys 1 : 0 Baumhus 6 6 Langheinrich 0 : 1 Ahn 7 8 Seger 1 : 0 Schirbel 9 9 Schmidt 0 : 1 Orlov 12
All the top teams won despite some players absentdue to participation at the FIDE World Championship and in fact Luebeck had Shirov (ESP), Adams (ENG) and Bareev (RUS) otherwise engaged. Even with these players missing Luebeck was still able to field a team with Nunn (ENG) on board 5 (!) which was enough to beat Tegernsee 5-1.
Solingen however had Morozevich (RUS) back on duty and overcame a strong Godesberg team to win 5½-2½. There were three members of the German Silver Medal team from the FIDE Olympiad taking part in this particular match: Jussupow (GER), Huebner (GER) and Dautov (GER).
Porz had a solid win against Gelsenkirchen but Nenashev (GER) managed to lose to someone with an ELO below 2200 ...
All the other promoted teams lost as well, with Schott Mainz being trounced by Castrop Rauxel 7-1. The German Champion Rabiega (GER) drew on top board for Koenig Tegel against Onischuk (UKR) but that wasn't enough to stop losing 2½-5½ to Magdeburg. Schlindwein (GER) couldn't continue his heroics and lost to Aronian (ARM) in the Baiertal-Wattenscheid match.
The other matches were more finely balanced and could become very important depending on the makeup of the league after this years reforms: Bremen beat Neukoelln with wins for Schandorff (DEN) and McShane (ENG), the young Englishman is having a much better season this year than last. In the other match, Koenig Plauen beat Hamburg with an uncharacteristic loss for Ftacnik (SVK) albeit against Beliavsky (SLO). Hamburg were weakened by missing Hansen (DEN) and Wahls (GER), the latter has hardly ever missed a match in the last few years. Games at the HSK website.
All games in PGN from GM Schach.
USC Magdeburg 5½-2½ König Tegel SV Werder Bremen 4½-3½ SFR Neukölln SK König Plauen 4½-3½ Hamburger SK TV Tegernsee 3 - 5 Lübecker SV Baiertal Schatt 2½-5½ SV Wattenscheid Schott Mainz 1 - 7 Castrop Rauxel Gelsenkirchen 1½-6½ SG Köln Porz Solinger SG 5½-2½ Godesberger SK USC Magdeburg 5½-2½ König Tegel 2 Onischuk ½ : ½ Rabiega 1 3 Rogozenko 1 : 0 Muse 2 4 Slobodjan 1 : 0 Paulsen 3 5 Baklan ½ : ½ Lipinsky 4 7 Georgiev 1 : 0 Von Herman 5 8 Proehl 1 : 0 Fette 6 10 Stolz 0 : 1 Pachow 7 13 Meier ½ : ½ Giemsa 9 SV Werder Bremen 4½-3½ SFR Neukölln 1 Hracek ½ : ½ Stohl 2 2 Babula ½ : ½ Atalik 3 3 Schandorff 1 : 0 Bunzmann 4 4 McShane 1 : 0 Brynell 6 5 Knaak 0 : 1 Borriss 7 6 Pelletier ½ : ½ Polzin 8 8 Meins ½ : ½ Rudolf 11 9 Heissler ½ : ½ Thiede 12 SK König Plauen 4½-3½ Hamburger SK 1 Beliavsky 1 : 0 Ftacnik 1 2 Bischoff ½ : ½ Dorfman 2 4 Boensch ½ : ½ Kempinski 3 5 Kindermann ½ : ½ Mueller 6 6 Espig ½ : ½ Gustafsson 7 8 Schaller ½ : ½ Heinemann 8 9 Sandner 0 : 1 Reeh 10 11 Kuraszkiewic 1 : 0 Sebastian 14 TV Tegernsee 3 - 5 Lübecker SV 1 Khenkin 0 : 1 Epishin 5 2 Ribli ½ : ½ Hodgson 6 3 Bauer 0 : 1 Agdestein 7 4 Hertneck ½ : ½ DeFirmian 8 6 Stangl 0 : 1 Nunn 9 7 Teske ½ : ½ Hansen 10 8 Gross ½ : ½ Hector 11 10 Pezerovic 1 : 0 Mortensen 12 Baiertal Schatt 2½-5½ SV Wattenscheid 1 Schlindwein 0 : 1 Aronian 1 2 Doettling 0 : 1 Nielsen 2 4 Buhmann ½ : ½ Rustemov 3 6 Duppel ½ : ½ Handke 5 7 Meissner 1 : 0 Holzke 6 8 Koch ½ : ½ Ellers 8 9 Balzar 0 : 1 Straeter 10 10 Schulzke 0 : 1 Thiel 13 Schott Mainz 1 - 7 Castrop Rauxel 1 Balcerak 0 : 1 Van der Ster 1 2 Kosten ½ : ½ King 4 3 Cicak ½ : ½ Gallagher 5 4 Lisanti 0 : 1 Seul 6 5 Vogler 0 : 1 Appel 8 6 Wornath 0 : 1 Hoffmann 9 7 Neidhardt 0 : 1 Dinstuhl 11 9 Kienast 0 : 1 Brendel 13 Gelsenkirchen 1½-6½ SG Köln Porz 1 Feigin 0 : 1 Lutz 1 3 Kalka 0 : 1 Van Wely 3 4 Kotter 0 : 1 Timman 4 5 Meessen 0 : 1 Sokolov 5 7 Ahn 0 : 1 Vaganian 6 9 Schirbel ½ : ½ Andersson 7 10 Hille 0 : 1 Hansen 8 11 Partenheimer 1 : 0 Nenasev 10 Solinger SG 5½-2½ Godesberger SK 1 Morozevich ½ : ½ Dautov 1 3 Piket ½ : ½ Gurevich 2 4 Jussupow ½ : ½ Kengis 3 5 Nikolic 1 : 0 David 4 6 Huebner ½ : ½ Kveinys 5 7 Sadler 1 : 0 Langheinrich 6 8 Emms ½ : ½ Seger 8 10 Lobron 1 : 0 Breder 13
The second Round was probably most notable for Adams' (ENG) loss against Muse (GER) ... we probably have to go back a fair while to find a loss for Adams against a non-GM, but despite this Luebeck beat Koenig Tegel easily 6½-1½. It will remain to be seen whether Luebeck can maintain the appearnce of their top players, something they started last season but couldn't keep up. Games at the Galaxis website.
Porz despatched Schott Mainz 6½-1½ while Solingen beat Bremen 6-2, in the latter match the English players again played solidly and scored 2½/3, as well as Morozevich (RUS) having a good weekend with 2/2. Games at the Bremen website.
The luck was with Castrop Rauxel this time with a 4½-3½ win against Koenig Plauen, playing particularly well on the top boards. Hamburg will not be pleased with their 5-3 loss to Neukoelln, however Wahls (GER) seems to be enjoying a lower board this year with his second win. Games at the HSK website.
As expected Magdeburg beat Gelsenkirchen comfortably but Baiertal put up a good performance to almost hold Godesberg, with one of the top German players Dautov losing to the IM Schlindwein. The other remaining match was a close affair with Tegernsee just beating Wattenscheid despite a second win from Rustemov (RUS).
All games in PGN from GM Schach.
USC Magdeburg 5½-2½ Gelsenkirchen SV Werder Bremen 2 - 6 Solinger SG Baiertal Schatt 3½-4½ Godesberger SK Schott Mainz 1½-6½ SG Köln Porz SK König Plauen 3½-4½ Castrop Rauxel TV Tegernsee 4½-3½ SV Wattenscheid König Tegel 1½-6½ Lübecker SV SFR Neukölln 5 - 3 Hamburger SK USC Magdeburg 5½-2½ Gelsenkirchen 3 Rogozenko ½ : ½ Feigin 1 4 Slobodjan 1 : 0 Kishnev 2 5 Baklan 0 : 1 Kalka 3 6 Thesing 1 : 0 Kotter 4 7 Georgiev 1 : 0 Baumhus 6 8 Proehl ½ : ½ Balster 8 9 Markgraf 1 : 0 Schirbel 9 11 Darnstaedt ½ : ½ Hille 10 SV Werder Bremen 2 - 6 Solinger SG 1 Hracek 0 : 1 Morozevich 1 2 Babula ½ : ½ Kasimdzhanov 2 3 Schandorff 0 : 1 Piket 3 4 McShane ½ : ½ Jussupow 4 5 Knaak ½ : ½ Huebner 6 6 Pelletier ½ : ½ Sadler 7 7 Joachim 0 : 1 Emms 8 8 Meins 0 : 1 Chandler 9 Baiertal Schatt 3½-4½ Godesberger SK 1 Schlindwein 1 : 0 Dautov 1 2 Doettling ½ : ½ Gurevich 2 4 Buhmann ½ : ½ Kengis 3 6 Duppel ½ : ½ Kveinys 5 7 Meissner ½ : ½ Langheinrich 6 8 Koch 0 : 1 Jackelen 7 9 Balzar 0 : 1 Seger 8 11 Schmenger ½ : ½ Schmidt 9 Schott Mainz 1½-6½ SG Köln Porz 1 Balcerak 0 : 1 Lutz 1 3 Cicak ½ : ½ Van Wely 3 4 Lisanti 0 : 1 Vaganian 6 6 Wornath 0 : 1 Hansen 8 7 Neidhardt 0 : 1 Nenasev 10 8 Bewersdorff 0 : 1 Nijboer 12 9 Kienast 0 : 1 Hort 13 14 Treppner 1 : 0 Van der Doel 14 SK König Plauen 3½-4½ Castrop Rauxel 2 Bischoff ½ : ½ Rozentalis 2 4 Boensch 0 : 1 Gallagher 5 5 Kindermann ½ : ½ Seul 6 6 Espig 0 : 1 Watson 7 8 Schaller 0 : 1 Hoffmann 9 9 Sandner ½ : ½ Bosch 10 10 Hackel 1 : 0 Dinstuhl 11 11 Kuraszkiewic 1 : 0 Hennig 12 TV Tegernsee 4½-3½ SV Wattenscheid 1 Khenkin ½ : ½ Aronian 1 3 Bauer ½ : ½ Nielsen 2 4 Hertneck 0 : 1 Rustemov 3 5 Beim 1 : 0 Handke 5 6 Stangl ½ : ½ Holzke 6 7 Teske ½ : ½ Ellers 8 8 Gross 1 : 0 Sjoedahl 9 9 Kachiani-Ger ½ : ½ Straeter 10 König Tegel 1½-6½ Lübecker SV Games 1 Rabiega 0 : 1 Shirov 1 2 Muse 1 : 0 Adams 2 3 Paulsen 0 : 1 Speelman 4 4 Lipinsky ½ : ½ Agdestein 7 5 Von Herman 0 : 1 DeFirmian 8 6 Fette 0 : 1 Nunn 9 7 Pachow 0 : 1 Hansen 10 10 Lorenz 0 : 1 Hector 11 SFR Neukölln 5 - 3 Hamburger SK 1 Movsesian ½ : ½ Ftacnik 1 2 Stohl ½ : ½ Dorfman 2 3 Atalik ½ : ½ Kempinski 3 4 Bunzmann ½ : ½ Hansen 4 5 Berndt 0 : 1 Wahls 5 7 Borriss 1 : 0 Heinemann 8 8 Polzin 1 : 0 Reeh 10 11 Rudolf 1 : 0 Sievers 12
The opening Round of the Bundesliga 2000-2001 produced no major surprises with the 'big three' of Luebeck, Solingen and Porz beating Neukoelln, Magdeburg and Baiertal respectively.
Solingen had a strong team with only Nikolic (BIH) missing. Morozevich (RUS) marked his debut with a win and the English triumverate of Sadler, Emms and Chandler scored 100% on the lower three boards to secure a 6½-1½ win.
Porz had an even better result albeit against weaker opposition, only the Germans Lutz and Hort didn't manage to win.
Luebeck didn't have their strongest team out against Neukoelln but again the (other) English trio of Adams, Speelman and Nunn scored well with 2½/3. However, Neukoelln nearly pulled off an upset with the strong young German Bunzmann beating Adgestein (NOR) and Poldauf (GER) beating Hector (SWE). Games at the Galaxis website.
Of the promoted teams, Koenig Tegel did the best against Hamburg but lost anyway with Dorfman (FRA) marking his first game with a victory but the normally solid Kempinski (POL) lost to Paulsen (GER). Games at the HSK website.
Godesberg took no chances against Schott Mainz with practically a full squad out and the 4 GM's on the top boards bringing home the bacon. Bremen with their best possible team beat Gelsenkirchen 6½-1½. Games at the Bremen website. The 4 promoted teams will have a tough time thi year ...
Of the remaining matches Tegernsee beat Castrop Rauxel by the narrowest of margins 4½-3½ with Castrop having several GM's missing being Van der Sterren (NED), Rogers (AUS) and King (ENG). Wattenscheid beat Koenig Plauen with wins from Rustemov (RUS) and Ellers (GER), also Nielsen (DEN) took time off from playing the world to draw against Boensch (GER).
All games in PGN from GM Schach.
Solinger SG 6½-1½ USC Magdeburg Gelsenkirchen 1½-6½ SV Werder Bremen SG Köln Porz 7 - 1 Baiertal Schatt Godesberger SK 5½-2½ Schott Mainz SV Wattenscheid 5 - 3 SK König Plauen Castrop Rauxel 3½-4½ SV Tegernsee Hamburger SK 5 - 3 König Tegel Lübecker SV 5 - 3 SFR Neukölln Solinger SG 6½-1½ USC Magdeburg 1 Morozevich 1 : 0 Rogozenko 3 2 Kasimdzhanov 1 : 0 Slobodjan 4 3 Piket ½ : ½ Baklan 5 4 Jussupow ½ : ½ Thesing 6 6 Huebner ½ : ½ Georgiev 7 7 Sadler 1 : 0 Proehl 8 8 Emms 1 : 0 Markgraf 9 9 Chandler 1 : 0 Darnstaedt 11 Gelsenkirchen 1½-6½ SV Werder Bremen 1 Feigin ½ : ½ Hracek 1 2 Kishnev ½ : ½ Babula 2 3 Kalka ½ : ½ Schandorff 3 4 Kotter 0 : 1 McShane 4 5 Meessen 0 : 1 Knaak 5 7 Ahn 0 : 1 Pelletier 6 8 Balster 0 : 1 Joachim 7 9 Schirbel 0 : 1 Meins 8 SG Köln Porz 7 - 1 Baiertal Schatt 1 Lutz ½ : ½ Schlindwein 1 3 Van Wely 1 : 0 Doettling 2 6 Vaganian 1 : 0 Buhmann 4 8 Hansen 1 : 0 Duppel 6 10 Nenasev 1 : 0 Meissner 7 12 Nijboer 1 : 0 Koch 8 13 Hort ½ : ½ Balzar 9 14 Van der Doel 1 : 0 Schmenger 11 Godesberger SK 5½-2½ Schott Mainz 1 Dautov 1 : 0 Balcerak 1 2 Gurevich 1 : 0 Cicak 3 3 Kengis 1 : 0 Lisanti 4 5 Kveinys 1 : 0 Wornath 6 6 Langheinrich ½ : ½ Neidhardt 7 7 Jackelen ½ : ½ Bewersdorff 8 8 Seger ½ : ½ Kienast 9 9 Schmidt 0 : 1 Muraniy 11 SV Wattenscheid 5 - 3 SK König Plauen 1 Aronian ½ : ½ Bischoff 2 2 Nielsen ½ : ½ Boensch 4 3 Rustemov 1 : 0 Kindermann 5 5 Handke ½ : ½ Espig 6 6 Holzke ½ : ½ Schaller 8 8 Ellers 1 : 0 Sandner 9 9 Sjoedahl ½ : ½ Hackel 10 10 Straeter ½ : ½ Kuraszkiewic 11 Castrop Rauxel 3½-4½ SV Tegernsee 2 Rozentalis 0 : 1 Khenkin 1 5 Gallagher ½ : ½ Bauer 3 6 Seul 0 : 1 Hertneck 4 7 Watson 1 : 0 Beim 5 9 Hoffmann 0 : 1 Stangl 6 10 Bosch ½ : ½ Teske 7 11 Dinstuhl 1 : 0 Gross 8 14 Lemmers ½ : ½ Kachiani-Ger 9 Hamburger SK 5 - 3 König Tegel Games 1 Ftacnik ½ : ½ Rabiega 1 2 Dorfman 1 : 0 Muse 2 3 Kempinski 0 : 1 Paulsen 3 4 Hansen ½ : ½ Lipinsky 4 5 Wahls 1 : 0 Von Herman 5 8 Heinemann 1 : 0 Fette 6 10 Reeh ½ : ½ Pachow 7 11 Michaelsen ½ : ½ Giemsa 9 Lübecker SV 5 - 3 SFR Neukölln Games 1 Shirov ½ : ½ Movsesian 1 2 Adams 1 : 0 Stohl 2 4 Speelman ½ : ½ Atalik 3 7 Agdestein 0 : 1 Bunzmann 4 8 DeFirmian 1 : 0 Berndt 5 9 Nunn 1 : 0 Borriss 7 10 Hansen 1 : 0 Polzin 8 11 Hector 0 : 1 Poldauf 10
1 Source: DSB
|
E-mail
Webmaster - John Sharp Copyright ©1999-2005 John Sharp |