Bundesliga 1999-2000 Results and Reports |
Bundesliga Final Table 1999-2000 *
1. SG Köln Porz 15 82 :38 29- 1
2. Solinger SG 15 76½:43½ 27- 3
3. SK Delmenhorst 15 64½:55½ 20-10
4. Godesberger SK 15 62 :58 19-11
5. SK Passau 15 63 :57 16-14
6. SV Werder Bremen 15 59½:60½ 16-14
7. Castrop Rauxel 15 58½:61½ 16-14
8. Hamburger SK 15 61 :59 15-15
9. SFR Neukölln 15 60½:59½ 14-16
10. USC Magdeburg 15 60 :60 13-17
11. Lübecker SV 15 59 :61 13-17
12. SV Wattenscheid 15 49½:70½ 12-18
13. Dresdner SC 15 54 :66 10-20
14. SK König Plauen 15 52 :68 9-21
15. SV Tegernsee 15 52 :68 6-24
16. PSV Duisburg 15 46 :74 5-25
* Source: German Chess Federation - Bundesliga
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The teams ups and downs in the German Bundesliga (BL) from 1999-2000have been somewhat complicated due to several withdrawals and refusals for promotion.
After the end of 1999-2000 Delmenhorst who finished an excellent 3rd place, unfortunately lost both their sponsors and were forced to withdraw from the BL1.
Normally this would have saved Dresden who would have been allowed to remain in the top-flight. However, Dresden themselves decided to call it a day and take no more part in the BL, a real shame since they have achieved 3rd place twice in the last 5 years. This now meant that Koenig Plauen were able to avoid relegation since they finished one place below Dresden.
If this was not enough, subsequently Passau who like Delmenhorst had a great season finishing 5th also decided to pack things in. This opened the door for Tegernsee to stay up - so in fact the only relegated team from last year was Duisburg(!)
The complications did not finish there1 ... firstly to get the simple part out the way ... as would be expected Schott Mainz and Koenig Tegel both were promoted in the normal fashion as champions from the 2. Bundesliga East and North respectively.
However, Zeppelin Neu Herne, the winners of 2. Bundesliga West, decided they didn't want promotion, being quite happy in the second division thank you very much. Second place Porz II could not be promoted since a club may have only one team in the 1. BL, thus the place fell to Gelsenkirchen who were third.
Similarly in 2. Bundesliga South, the champions Pasing refused their entry into the BL which passed over to Baiertal who took their place. Thus giving us our full contingent of 16 teams in this years BL.
1Source: Schach May 2000
9 April 2000 Round 15 Dresdner SC 3½-4½ SV Wattenscheid SK König Plauen 3½-4½ Solinger SG SK Passau 4 - 4 SV Werder Bremen SV Tegernsee 2½-5½ SK Delmenhorst Godesberger SK 4 - 4 USC Magdeburg Castrop Rauxel 2½-5½ SFR Neukölln Hamburger SK 5½-2½ PSV Duisburg Lübecker SV 3 - 5 SG Köln Porz Herzlichen Glueckwunsch! to Porz who have retained the Bundesliga title with a convincing win against Luebeck, even the World Champion managed to win. However, a heartbreaking time for one team ... Dresden who only needed to draw to escape relegation but managed to lose to Wattenscheid but it did fit in nicely with my earlier season predictions but I guess that's not much comfort for them. Koenig Plauen almost held Solingen but in the end it meant nothing anyway since a win would not have helped. In the battle for minor places, Delmenhorst succeeded in coming 3rd, who have no major stars but some very solid GM's including an Englishman and Irishman. Godesberg came in 4th which must be pleasing after trying so many years to gain entry into the top flight. In fact with Luebeck there have been two very strong additions in the last year Passau came in a very creditable 5th considering the ELO ratings of the team and their ranking they played very well. Alongside Passau finished Castrop Rauxel and Bremen, with Bremen finishing the last few rounds particularly well. Hamburg came next in 8th position with 50% after a bit of a scare until safety was assured in Round 13. Next came Neukoelln, Magdeburg and Luebeck who are probably somewhat disappointed with their 9-11th placings, particularly Luebeck who were boasting a very strong team. wattensceid just managed to cling on in 12th place. The relegated teams turned out to be Dresden, Koenig Plauen, Tegernsee and Duisburg. A few seasons ago Duisburg were fielding a very strong team and only recently Dresden were finishing at the top of the table. It just goes to show how very strong the bundesliga is becoming, and how difficult it will be for the new teams arriving from the second division. Dresdner SC 3½-4½ SV Wattenscheid 2 Tischbierek 0 : 1 Morozevich 1 3 Socko 0 : 1 Nielsen 2 4 Boensch 1 : 0 Rustemov 3 5 Borriss ½ : ½ Hall 4 6 Maiwald ½ : ½ Holzke 7 7 Lanka 1 : 0 Ellers 8 8 Uhlmann ½ : ½ Straeter 10 11 Heinatz 0 : 1 Franke 11 SK König Plauen 3½-4½ Solinger SG 1 Beliavsky ½ : ½ Jussupow 3 2 Kindermann ½ : ½ Sadler 4 3 Gdanski ½ : ½ Nikolic 5 4 Bischoff ½ : ½ Huebner 6 5 Espig 0 : 1 Piket 7 7 Schaller ½ : ½ Lobron 11 9 Haskamp 1 : 0 Naumann 12 10 Sandner 0 : 1 Chandler 13 SK Passau 4 - 4 SV Werder Bremen 1 Schlosser ½ : ½ Hracek 1 2 Ribli ½ : ½ Babula 2 3 Wells 1 : 0 Pelletier 4 5 Enders 0 : 1 Knaak 5 7 Klebel ½ : ½ Schandorff 6 8 Renner 0 : 1 Heissler 7 9 Pichler ½ : ½ Meins 8 10 Gross 1 : 0 Hedke 10 SV Tegernsee 2½-5½ SK Delmenhorst 1 Khenkin 1 : 0 Agdestein 1 2 Beim ½ : ½ Rogers 2 3 Hertneck 0 : 1 Hodgson 3 4 Teske 0 : 1 Baburin 4 6 Pezerovic 0 : 1 Brenninkmeij 6 7 Kachiani-Ger ½ : ½ Beckemeyer 10 9 Klundt 0 : 1 Breutigam 11 10 Bromberger ½ : ½ Wesseln 12 Godesberger SK 4 - 4 USC Magdeburg 3 Dautov ½ : ½ Onischuk 1 4 Gurevich 1 : 0 Slobodjan 2 5 Kengis ½ : ½ Nisipeanu 3 6 David ½ : ½ Rogozenko 4 7 Kveinys 0 : 1 Baklan 5 9 Heinbuch 0 : 1 Georgiev 6 10 Jackelen 1 : 0 Proehl 8 11 Schmidt,B ½ : ½ Stolz 9 Castrop Rauxel 2½-5½ SFR Neukölln 2 Van der Ster 0 : 1 Movsesian 1 4 Gallagher ½ : ½ Bunzmann 3 5 Seul ½ : ½ Stohl 4 7 Hoffmann 0 : 1 Berndt 5 9 Dinstuhl ½ : ½ Brynell 7 11 Brendel 1 : 0 Polzin 9 12 Appel 0 : 1 Rudolf 11 14 Hermesmann 0 : 1 Thiede 12 Hamburger SK 5½-2½ PSV Duisburg 1 Ftacnik ½ : ½ Epishin 1 3 Wahls ½ : ½ Sax 2 4 Mueller ½ : ½ Unzicker 6 5 Heinemann 1 : 0 Kraut 7 6 Hansen ½ : ½ Machelett 9 8 Gustafsson 1 : 0 Zude 10 9 Michaelsen ½ : ½ Kummerow 12 10 Reeh 1 : 0 Schmitz 13 Lübecker SV 3 - 5 SG Köln Porz 5 Nunn ½ : ½ Lutz 1 6 Hansen ½ : ½ Van Wely 2 7 Hector 0 : 1 Khalifman 3 8 Kalinitschew ½ : ½ Vaganian 6 9 Lau ½ : ½ Andersson 7 10 Mortensen 1 : 0 Hansen 8 11 Cladouras 0 : 1 Bacrot 9 13 Sieg 0 : 1 Nijboer 10
8 April 2000 Round 14 SV Wattenscheid 4½-3½ SK König Plauen Solinger SG 6 - 2 Dresdner SC USC Magdeburg 5½-2½ Castrop Rauxel SFR Neukölln 3½-4½ Godesberger SK SV Werder Bremen 5 - 3 SV Tegernsee SK Delmenhorst 4 - 4 SK Passau SG Köln Porz 6½-1½ Hamburger SK PSV Duisburg 5½-2½ Lübecker SV My relegation prediction my well come true ... it all depends on the match between Wattenscheid and Dresden. A close match between Wattenschied and Koenig Plauen with the former winning by the narrowest of margins has almost certainly doomed Plauen to the second division - incredible since they have 5 GM's in the side! Both Solingen and Porz won easily, perhaps Dresden are saving their energies for the match against Wattenscheid, whereas Hamburg were simply out-classed when normally they are a tough nut to crack for Porz. Magdeburg ensured their safety with a solid win against Castrop Rauxel but they took no risks with Goergiev on board 5. Surprisingly Duisburg won against Luebeck which just goes to show having a star-studded team does not always bring success. Bremen beat Tegernsee who are a team with 5 GM's + 1 WGM who will be relegated! The battle for third place in the final round will be interesting after Godesberg caught Delmenhorst up, since the latter could only draw against Passau, while Godesberg managed to win against Neukoelln. SV Wattenscheid 4½-3½ SK König Plauen 1 Morozevich 1 : 0 Beliavsky 1 2 Nielsen ½ : ½ Kindermann 2 3 Rustemov 1 : 0 Gdanski 3 4 Hall ½ : ½ Bischoff 4 7 Holzke ½ : ½ Espig 5 8 Ellers 0 : 1 Schaller 7 10 Straeter 1 : 0 Haskamp 9 12 Koehn 0 : 1 Sandner 10 Solinger SG 6 - 2 Dresdner SC 3 Jussupow ½ : ½ Tischbierek 2 4 Sadler 1 : 0 Socko 3 5 Nikolic 0 : 1 Boensch 4 6 Huebner 1 : 0 Borriss 5 7 Piket 1 : 0 Maiwald 6 11 Lobron 1 : 0 Lanka 7 12 Naumann ½ : ½ Uhlmann 8 13 Chandler 1 : 0 Heinatz 11 USC Magdeburg 5½-2½ Castrop Rauxel 1 Onischuk 0 : 1 Van der Ster 2 2 Slobodjan 1 : 0 Gallagher 4 3 Nisipeanu ½ : ½ Seul 5 4 Rogozenko ½ : ½ Hoffmann 7 5 Baklan 1 : 0 Watson 8 6 Georgiev 1 : 0 Dinstuhl 9 8 Proehl ½ : ½ Appel 12 11 Darnstaedt 1 : 0 Hermesmann 14 SFR Neukölln 3½-4½ Godesberger SK 1 Movsesian ½ : ½ Dautov 3 3 Bunzmann ½ : ½ Gurevich 4 4 Stohl ½ : ½ Kengis 5 5 Berndt ½ : ½ David 6 6 Poldauf 0 : 1 Kveinys 7 7 Brynell ½ : ½ Heinbuch 9 9 Polzin 1 : 0 Jackelen 10 12 Thiede 0 : 1 Schmidt,B 11 SV Werder Bremen 5 - 3 SV Tegernsee 1 Hracek ½ : ½ Khenkin 1 2 Babula ½ : ½ Beim 2 4 Pelletier ½ : ½ Hertneck 3 5 Knaak 1 : 0 Teske 4 6 Schandorff 1 : 0 Schmittdiel 5 7 Heissler 1 : 0 Pezerovic 6 8 Meins ½ : ½ Kachiani-Ger 7 10 Hedke 0 : 1 Klundt 9 SK Delmenhorst 4 - 4 SK Passau 1 Agdestein ½ : ½ Schlosser 1 2 Rogers ½ : ½ Ribli 2 3 Hodgson ½ : ½ Wells 3 4 Baburin ½ : ½ Enders 5 6 Brenninkmeij 0 : 1 Klebel 7 7 Gisbrecht 1 : 0 Renner 8 11 Breutigam 1 : 0 Pichler 9 12 Wesseln 0 : 1 Gross 10 SG Köln Porz 6½-1½ Hamburger SK 1 Lutz ½ : ½ Ftacnik 1 2 Van Wely 1 : 0 Wahls 3 3 Khalifman 1 : 0 Mueller 4 6 Vaganian 1 : 0 Heinemann 5 7 Andersson 1 : 0 Hansen 6 8 Hansen ½ : ½ Gustafsson 8 9 Bacrot 1 : 0 Michaelsen 9 10 Nijboer ½ : ½ Reeh 10 PSV Duisburg 5½-2½ Lübecker SV 1 Epishin ½ : ½ Nunn 5 2 Sax 1 : 0 Hansen 6 6 Unzicker 0 : 1 Hector 7 7 Kraut ½ : ½ Kalinitschew 8 8 Thesing ½ : ½ Lau 9 9 Machelett 1 : 0 Mortensen 10 10 Zude 1 : 0 Cladouras 11 12 Kummerow 1 : 0 Sieg 13
12 March 2000 Round 13 Hamburger SK 6 - 2 SK König Plauen Lübecker SV 4½-3½ Dresdner SC SG Köln Porz 5½-2½ SFR Neukölln PSV Duisburg 3 - 5 USC Magdeburg SK Passau 3 - 5 Castrop Rauxel SV Tegernsee 3½-4½ Godesberger SK SK Delmenhorst 3 - 5 Solinger SG SV Werder Bremen 5½-2½ SV Wattenscheid It was business as usual for Porz and Solingen: Porz easily beat Neukoelln 5½-2½ with only Curt Hansen sliping up and Solingen beating third placed Delmenhorst, with Sadler beating Rogers (Piket 2/2) - this latter result exemplifies the gulf between the two 'big boys' and 'the rest', this year even the strong Luebeck team were unable to make an impression. Delmenhorst's loss allowed Godesberg and Castrop Rauxel to make up ground, due to beating Tegernsee and Passau respectively. Passau thus dropped to 6th position. Magdeburg picked up two useful points to pull themselves out of the relegation zone. There were important wins for HSK (hurray! Kempinski 2/2), Luebeck (Cladouras 2/2) and Bremen (Meins 2/2) which plunged Koenig Plauen, Dresden and Wattenscheid into deeper crisis. In fact Dresden did very well to nearly hold Luebeck, who despite having Shirov/Bareev(!) on top boards, only lost 4½-3½. Shirov again lost to a middle of the road German GM and Bareev lost to the German DSB coach. So what do we have? at the top Porz have two fairly tough matches in the final weekend (8/9th April) against Luebeck and Hamburg. Solingen should not have too much trouble against Dresden and Koenig Plauen. My money is still on Porz ... Delmenhorst should maintain their third position. There is an interesting symmetry for the next two teams, Godesberg and Castrop Rauxel, in that they have the same match and game points and also play the same two teams in the final weekend! They will need to win both matches to catch Delmenhorst which seems unlikely against Neukoelln and Magdeburg. At the other end, Duisburg is doomed to relegation, Tegernsee are technically alive but effectively gone and need to win both their final matches to stand even a chance. Wattenscheid's fate lies in their own hands since they play the two teams above themselves (Dresden and Koenig Plauen). In fact if, as expected, Solingen beat Dresden as well as Koenig Plauen, and Wattenscheid win both matches then they will leapfrog into safety! Neukoelln and Magdeburg should stay up but need to be careful and ensure they get at least one point more. Hamburger SK 6 - 2 SK König Plauen 1 Ftacnik ½ : ½ Beliavsky 1 2 Kempinski 1 : 0 Kindermann 2 3 Wahls ½ : ½ Gdanski 3 4 Mueller 1 : 0 Bischoff 4 5 Heinemann ½ : ½ Espig 5 6 Hansen 1 : 0 Hackel 6 8 Gustafsson 1 : 0 Schaller 7 10 Reeh ½ : ½ Sandner 10 Lübecker SV 4½-3½ Dresdner SC 1 Shirov 0 : 1 Tischbierek 2 3 Bareev 0 : 1 Boensch 4 5 Nunn ½ : ½ Maiwald 6 6 Hansen ½ : ½ Lanka 7 7 Hector ½ : ½ Uhlmann 8 8 Kalinitschew 1 : 0 Gauglitz 10 9 Lau 1 : 0 Heinatz 11 11 Cladouras 1 : 0 Andresen 13 SG Köln Porz 5½-2½ SFR Neukölln 1 Lutz ½ : ½ Movsesian 1 2 Van Wely 1 : 0 Bunzmann 3 4 Timman ½ : ½ Stohl 4 5 Sokolov 1 : 0 Berndt 5 6 Vaganian 1 : 0 Brynell 7 7 Andersson ½ : ½ Polzin 9 8 Hansen 0 : 1 Rudolf 11 10 Nijboer 1 : 0 Thiede 12 PSV Duisburg 3 - 5 USC Magdeburg 1 Epishin ½ : ½ Onischuk 1 3 Nevednichy 1 : 0 Slobodjan 2 8 Thesing 0 : 1 Nisipeanu 3 9 Machelett ½ : ½ Baklan 5 10 Zude 0 : 1 Georgiev 6 12 Kummerow ½ : ½ Proehl 8 13 Schmitz ½ : ½ Markgraf 10 14 Groth 0 : 1 Darnstaedt 11 SK Passau 3 - 5 Castrop Rauxel 1 Schlosser 0 : 1 Rozentalis 1 2 Ribli 1 : 0 Van der Ster 2 4 Smejkal ½ : ½ King 3 5 Enders 0 : 1 Gallagher 4 6 Stangl 0 : 1 Hoffmann 7 7 Klebel ½ : ½ Watson 8 8 Renner 0 : 1 Dinstuhl 9 10 Gross 1 : 0 Brendel 11 SV Tegernsee 3½-4½ Godesberger SK 1 Khenkin ½ : ½ Dautov 3 2 Beim 0 : 1 Gurevich 4 3 Hertneck 0 : 1 Kengis 5 4 Teske ½ : ½ David 6 5 Schmittdiel 0 : 1 Kveinys 7 6 Pezerovic 1 : 0 Heinbuch 9 7 Kachiani-Ger 1 : 0 Jackelen 10 9 Klundt ½ : ½ Schmidt,B 11 SK Delmenhorst 3 - 5 Solinger SG 1 Agdestein ½ : ½ Jussupow 3 2 Rogers 0 : 1 Sadler 4 5 Conquest ½ : ½ Nikolic 5 7 Gisbrecht ½ : ½ Huebner 6 8 Lauber 0 : 1 Piket 7 10 Beckemeyer ½ : ½ Kasimdzhanov 9 11 Breutigam ½ : ½ Lobron 11 12 Wesseln ½ : ½ Chandler 13 SV Werder Bremen 5½-2½ SV Wattenscheid 1 Hracek 0 : 1 Nielsen 2 2 Babula 1 : 0 Rustemov 3 4 Pelletier ½ : ½ Ziegler 5 5 Knaak ½ : ½ Sjoedahl 6 6 Schandorff ½ : ½ Holzke 7 7 Heissler 1 : 0 Ellers 8 8 Meins 1 : 0 Straeter 10 11 Meyer 1 : 0 Thiel 13
12 March 2000 Round 12 Dresdner SC 4 - 4 Hamburger SK SK König Plauen 4 - 4 Lübecker SV USC Magdeburg 3½-4½ SG Köln Porz SFR Neukölln 7 - 1 PSV Duisburg Godesberger SK 2½-5½ SK Passau Castrop Rauxel 5½-2½ SV Tegernsee SV Wattenscheid 3½-4½ SK Delmenhorst Solinger SG 4½-3½ SV Werder Bremen Round 12 brought few surprises but some near misses ... with both Porz and Solingen winning by the narrowest of margins 4½-3½. Porz were only missing Khalifman but were up against a strong Magdeburg team: Van Wely and Sokolov both lost, but experience told with the 'elder statesmen' Timman and Andersson bringing home the goods. Solingen were also strong, with just Mickey Adams absent, probably taking a well earned rest after his recent victorious match with Seirawan and 'adventures' in the KasparovChess Internet knockout tournament. Yusupov lost on top board to Hracek, and is having a rather average season compared to his normal high standards. But wins from Huebner, Piket and Kasimdzhanov (11/12!) saved the day. The tail-end triumverate: Wattenscheid, Tegernsee and Duisburg all lost which further cemented their dire position, whereas Dresden, Hamburg, Koenig Plauen and Luebeck all picked up a useful point with two sets of 4-4 draws. Neukoelln thrashed Duisburg 7-1, they now have a difficult match against Porz but look safe nevertheless. Passau continued their good run with a win against Godesberg to put them into 4th place, amazing considering they are only seeded 14th! They have a very solid team with the experienced Ribli and Smejkal on boards 2 and 3 who rarely lose, and the workmanlike GM's Wells, Enders and Strangl next. Castrop Rauxel, as expected, beat Tegernsee with the English contingent (as usual) doing well. Delmenhorst just beat Wattensheid and laid claim to third position three points clear. Dresdner SC 4 - 4 Hamburger SK 2 Tischbierek 0 : 1 Ftacnik 1 4 Boensch 0 : 1 Kempinski 2 6 Maiwald 1 : 0 Wahls 3 7 Lanka ½ : ½ Mueller 4 8 Uhlmann ½ : ½ Heinemann 5 10 Gauglitz ½ : ½ Hansen 6 11 Heinatz 1 : 0 Wilhelmi 7 13 Andresen ½ : ½ Reeh 10 SK König Plauen 4 - 4 Lübecker SV 1 Beliavsky ½ : ½ Shirov 1 2 Kindermann ½ : ½ Bareev 3 3 Gdanski 1 : 0 Nunn 5 4 Bischoff ½ : ½ Hansen 6 5 Espig ½ : ½ Hector 7 7 Schaller ½ : ½ Kalinitschew 8 10 Sandner ½ : ½ Lau 9 11 Kuraszkiewic 0 : 1 Cladouras 11 USC Magdeburg 3½-4½ SG Köln Porz 1 Onischuk ½ : ½ Lutz 1 2 Slobodjan 1 : 0 Van Wely 2 3 Nisipeanu 0 : 1 Timman 4 5 Baklan 1 : 0 Sokolov 5 6 Georgiev ½ : ½ Vaganian 6 8 Proehl 0 : 1 Andersson 7 9 Stolz ½ : ½ Hansen 8 10 Markgraf 0 : 1 Nijboer 10 SFR Neukölln 7 - 1 PSV Duisburg 1 Movsesian 1 : 0 Epishin 1 3 Bunzmann ½ : ½ Nevednichy 3 4 Stohl + : - Kraut 7 5 Berndt 1 : 0 Thesing 8 7 Brynell 1 : 0 Machelett 9 9 Polzin 1 : 0 Zude 10 11 Rudolf ½ : ½ Kummerow 12 12 Thiede 1 : 0 Groth 14 Godesberger SK 2½-5½ SK Passau 3 Dautov ½ : ½ Schlosser 1 4 Gurevich ½ : ½ Ribli 2 5 Kengis ½ : ½ Smejkal 4 6 David 0 : 1 Enders 5 7 Kveinys 0 : 1 Stangl 6 9 Heinbuch ½ : ½ Klebel 7 10 Jackelen ½ : ½ Renner 8 11 Schmidt,B 0 : 1 Gross 10 Castrop Rauxel 5½-2½ SV Tegernsee 1 Rozentalis 0 : 1 Khenkin 1 2 Van der Ster ½ : ½ Beim 2 3 King 1 : 0 Hertneck 3 4 Gallagher 1 : 0 Teske 4 7 Hoffmann ½ : ½ Schmittdiel 5 8 Watson 1 : 0 Pezerovic 6 11 Brendel ½ : ½ Kachiani-Ger 7 12 Appel 1 : 0 Bromberger 10 SV Wattenscheid 3½-4½ SK Delmenhorst 2 Nielsen 0 : 1 Agdestein 1 3 Rustemov ½ : ½ Rogers 2 5 Ziegler 0 : 1 Conquest 5 6 Sjoedahl ½ : ½ Gisbrecht 7 7 Holzke 0 : 1 Lauber 8 8 Ellers 1 : 0 Borik 9 10 Straeter 1 : 0 Breutigam 11 11 Franke ½ : ½ Wesseln 12 Solinger SG 4½-3½ SV Werder Bremen 3 Jussupow 0 : 1 Hracek 1 4 Sadler ½ : ½ Babula 2 5 Nikolic ½ : ½ Pelletier 4 6 Huebner 1 : 0 Knaak 5 7 Piket 1 : 0 Schandorff 6 9 Kasimdzhanov 1 : 0 Heissler 7 11 Lobron 0 : 1 Meins 8 13 Chandler ½ : ½ Meyer 11
20 February 2000 Round 11 SK Delmenhorst 3 - 5 SK König Plauen SV Werder Bremen 4½-3½ Dresdner SC Godesberger SK 3 - 5 Solinger SG Castrop Rauxel 4 - 4 SV Wattenscheid SK Passau 5½-2½ PSV Duisburg SV Tegernsee 3 - 5 SG Köln Porz SFR Neukölln 4 - 4 Hamburger SK USC Magdeburg 4 - 4 Lübecker SV At the end of this round it's worth looking at the chances at both ends of the table. At the top it is (as usual) a fight between the two giants Porz and Solingen. Porz have a much harder final straight than Solingen and face Magdeburg, Neukoelln, Luebeck and Hamburg - all teams rated in the top 8 - if Luebeck pull out the stops they could beat Porz. Whereas Solingen have to play Bremen, Delmenhorst, Dresden and Plauen of which only one is in the top 8. My heart is with Solingen (since they have several UKplayers in the squad) but my money would probably be on Porz since they rarely slip up. Anyway, may the best team win. At the bottom end of the table its looking like Tegernsee and Duisburg are doomed - the question is out of the next 7 teams which other 2 will drop? Luebeck are too strong and I hope to goodness Hamburg stay up. Plauen have a very hard run of matches including Luebeck and Solingen but play both Wattensheid and Hamburg so anything is possible. Magdeburg are strong but also have a difficult set of matches. Dresden have played badly recently so they may be a possible. But to be honest until the next double-round its difficult to predict but I'll go for: Dresden, Plauen, Tegernsee and Duisburg. To get back to the Sunday matches, Rogers suffered another defeat, which is probably the first time he has lost both games. McShane won his game, he's been finding it a bit tough so far so it was nice to see him win. Solingen had a tough match against Godesberg but won, Kasimdzhanov won (again!) his rating must be going off the scale with his Vaganianesque 10/11 so far! Hamburg got a solid point against Neukoelln and must have been pleased to get 3/4 again. Dresden finished an awful weekend losing to Werder Bremen: Bremen jumped up 5 places and Dresden dropped 3 places. Neukoelln dropped 3 places as well whereas Passau have now reached 5th position with Schlosser continuing his good run on board 1. SK Delmenhorst 3 - 5 SK König Plauen 2 Rogers 0 : 1 Beliavsky 1 5 Conquest ½ : ½ Kindermann 2 7 Gisbrecht 0 : 1 Gdanski 3 8 Lauber 0 : 1 Bischoff 4 9 Borik ½ : ½ Espig 5 10 Beckemeyer ½ : ½ Schaller 7 11 Breutigam 1 : 0 Haskamp 9 13 Dornieden ½ : ½ Sandner 10 SV Werder Bremen 4½-3½ Dresdner SC 1 Hracek ½ : ½ Tischbierek 2 2 Babula ½ : ½ Boensch 4 3 McShane 1 : 0 Borriss 5 4 Pelletier 0 : 1 Maiwald 6 6 Schandorff ½ : ½ Uhlmann 8 7 Heissler ½ : ½ Goldberg 9 8 Meins 1 : 0 Gauglitz 10 11 Meyer ½ : ½ Wegener 12 Godesberger SK 3 - 5 Solinger SG 3 Dautov ½ : ½ Jussupow 3 4 Gurevich 1 : 0 Sadler 4 5 Kengis ½ : ½ Nikolic 5 7 Kveinys ½ : ½ Huebner 6 9 Heinbuch 0 : 1 Kasimdzhanov 9 10 Jackelen 0 : 1 Lobron 11 11 Schmidt,B 0 : 1 Naumann 12 12 Breder ½ : ½ Chandler 13 Castrop Rauxel 4 - 4 SV Wattenscheid 1 Rozentalis ½ : ½ Nielsen 2 2 Van der Ster 1 : 0 Rustemov 3 3 King 0 : 1 Hall 4 7 Hoffmann ½ : ½ Holzke 7 9 Dinstuhl ½ : ½ Ellers 8 11 Brendel 0 : 1 Straeter 10 12 Appel 1 : 0 Koehn 12 13 Lemmers ½ : ½ Thiel 13 SK Passau 5½-2½ PSV Duisburg 1 Schlosser ½ : ½ Epishin 1 2 Ribli ½ : ½ Sax 2 4 Smejkal 1 : 0 Unzicker 6 5 Enders ½ : ½ Kraut 7 6 Stangl ½ : ½ Machelett 9 7 Klebel ½ : ½ Zude 10 8 Renner 1 : 0 Berg 11 9 Pichler 1 : 0 Kummerow 12 SV Tegernsee 3 - 5 SG Köln Porz 1 Khenkin ½ : ½ Lutz 1 2 Beim 0 : 1 Van Wely 2 3 Hertneck ½ : ½ Khalifman 3 4 Teske ½ : ½ Vaganian 6 5 Schmittdiel ½ : ½ Hansen 8 6 Pezerovic ½ : ½ Vogt 11 7 Kachiani-Ger ½ : ½ Hort 13 10 Bromberger 0 : 1 Van der Doel 14 SFR Neukölln 4 - 4 Hamburger SK 1 Movsesian ½ : ½ Ftacnik 1 3 Bunzmann 1 : 0 Kempinski 2 4 Stohl ½ : ½ Wahls 3 5 Berndt 1 : 0 Mueller 4 6 Poldauf ½ : ½ Heinemann 5 8 Hellsten ½ : ½ Hansen 6 9 Polzin 0 : 1 Wilhelmi 7 12 Thiede 0 : 1 Reeh 10 USC Magdeburg 4 - 4 Lübecker SV 1 Onischuk ½ : ½ Shirov 1 2 Slobodjan ½ : ½ Speelman 2 4 Rogozenko 0 : 1 DeFirmian 4 5 Baklan ½ : ½ Nunn 5 6 Georgiev ½ : ½ Hansen 6 8 Proehl 0 : 1 Hector 7 9 Stolz 1 : 0 Mortensen 10 10 Markgraf 1 : 0 Cladouras 11
19 February 2000 Round 10 Dresdner SC 3½-4½ SK Delmenhorst SK König Plauen 3 - 5 SV Werder Bremen SV Wattenscheid 2½-5½ Godesberger SK Solinger SG 5 - 3 Castrop Rauxel SG Köln Porz 5½-2½ SK Passau PSV Duisburg 4½-3½ SV Tegernsee Lübecker SV 5½-2½ SFR Neukölln Hamburger SK 5 - 3 USC Magdeburg A good win by Delmenhorst despite Rogers losing which is a rare event in the Bundesliga, Conquest, a great team player, had a good win on board 2. Koenig Plauen despite having a fair few GM's were not good enough to stop a rejuvenated Werder Bremen who obtained a solid 5-3 win. Godesberg with a somewhat weakened team did the business against a somewhat weaker Wattensheid, the latter slipping further into the relegation zone ... Solingen and Porz moved on with comfortable wins against Castrop Rauxel and Passau respectively (again the World Champion could only draw against an average GM) Duisburg picked up their first win of the season against SV Tegernsee but alas this is too little too late. Luebeck had a strong squad out and Neukoelln were well beaten. Hamburg clocked up two more important points in the fight against relegation a strong Magdeburg team - well done lads! Dresdner SC 3½-4½ SK Delmenhorst 2 Tischbierek 1 : 0 Rogers 2 4 Boensch 0 : 1 Conquest 5 5 Borriss ½ : ½ Gisbrecht 7 6 Maiwald 1 : 0 Lauber 8 8 Uhlmann 1 : 0 Borik 9 9 Goldberg 0 : 1 Beckemeyer 10 10 Gauglitz 0 : 1 Breutigam 11 12 Wegener 0 : 1 Wesseln 12 SK König Plauen 3 - 5 SV Werder Bremen 1 Beliavsky ½ : ½ Hracek 1 2 Kindermann 0 : 1 Babula 2 3 Gdanski 1 : 0 McShane 3 4 Bischoff 1 : 0 Pelletier 4 5 Espig 0 : 1 Schandorff 6 6 Hackel 0 : 1 Heissler 7 7 Schaller 0 : 1 Meins 8 10 Sandner ½ : ½ Meyer 11 SV Wattenscheid 2½-5½ Godesberger SK 2 Nielsen 0 : 1 Dautov 3 3 Rustemov 0 : 1 Gurevich 4 4 Hall ½ : ½ Kengis 5 7 Holzke ½ : ½ Kveinys 7 8 Ellers ½ : ½ Heinbuch 9 10 Straeter 0 : 1 Jackelen 10 11 Franke ½ : ½ Schmidt,B 11 13 Thiel ½ : ½ Breder 12 Solinger SG 5 - 3 Castrop Rauxel 3 Jussupow ½ : ½ Rozentalis 1 4 Sadler 0 : 1 Van der Ster 2 5 Nikolic 0 : 1 King 3 6 Huebner 1 : 0 Hoffmann 7 9 Kasimdzhanov 1 : 0 Dinstuhl 9 11 Lobron 1 : 0 Brendel 11 12 Naumann ½ : ½ Appel 12 13 Chandler 1 : 0 Lemmers 13 SG Köln Porz 5½-2½ SK Passau 1 Lutz 0 : 1 Schlosser 1 2 Van Wely 1 : 0 Ribli 2 3 Khalifman ½ : ½ Smejkal 4 6 Vaganian 1 : 0 Enders 5 8 Hansen ½ : ½ Stangl 6 11 Vogt ½ : ½ Klebel 7 13 Hort 1 : 0 Renner 8 14 Van der Doel 1 : 0 Pichler 9 PSV Duisburg 4½-3½ SV Tegernsee 1 Epishin ½ : ½ Khenkin 1 2 Sax 1 : 0 Beim 2 6 Unzicker 1 : 0 Hertneck 3 7 Kraut ½ : ½ Teske 4 9 Machelett 0 : 1 Schmittdiel 5 10 Zude 0 : 1 Pezerovic 6 11 Berg 1 : 0 Kachiani-Ger 7 12 Kummerow ½ : ½ Klundt 9 Lübecker SV 5½-2½ SFR Neukölln 1 Shirov 1 : 0 Movsesian 1 2 Speelman ½ : ½ Bunzmann 3 4 DeFirmian ½ : ½ Stohl 4 5 Nunn ½ : ½ Berndt 5 6 Hansen 1 : 0 Poldauf 6 7 Hector 1 : 0 Hellsten 8 10 Mortensen ½ : ½ Polzin 9 11 Cladouras ½ : ½ Schoene 10 Hamburger SK 5 - 3 USC Magdeburg 1 Ftacnik ½ : ½ Onischuk 1 2 Kempinski ½ : ½ Slobodjan 2 3 Wahls ½ : ½ Rogozenko 4 4 Mueller 1 : 0 Baklan 5 5 Heinemann 0 : 1 Georgiev 6 6 Hansen ½ : ½ Proehl 8 7 Wilhelmi 1 : 0 Stolz 9 10 Reeh 1 : 0 Markgraf 10
30 January 2000 Round 9 After the dust has settled from Rd 9 there is a fair spread of teams at the top. Porz look good for gold and Solingen for silver, but third place will be an interesting fight between Delmenhorst, Godesberg, Castrop Rauxel and Passau. At the bottom, Duisburg are doomed, unless a miracle happens, then come a block of 7 teams with 6 or 7 points - none of these are safe, I just hope Hamburg stay up! It was a bad weekend for Bremen, Tegernsee and Koenig Plauen but a good one for Passau, Neukoelln and Hamburg (hurrah!! well done boys). Passau did well to beat Luebeck with Schlosser doing over Shirov - its amazing that Luebeck with such a strong squad are not doing better but even though they are in the 'relegation block' I can't imagine they will go down. It was a good weekend for the retired Sadler who won on Sunday after beating Khalifman on Saturday. Dresdner SC 2 - 6 SFR Neukölln SK König Plauen 3½-4½ USC Magdeburg Hamburger SK 4½-3½ SV Tegernsee Lübecker SV 2½-5½ SK Passau SG Köln Porz 6½-1½ SV Wattenscheid PSV Duisburg 2½-5½ Solinger SG Godesberger SK 5½-2½ SV Werder Bremen Castrop Rauxel 4½-3½ SK Delmenhorst Dresdner SC 2 - 6 SFR Neukölln 2 Tischbierek 0 : 1 Movsesian 1 5 Borriss 0 : 1 Bunzmann 3 6 Maiwald 0 : 1 Stohl 4 8 Uhlmann ½ : ½ Berndt 5 9 Goldberg 0 : 1 Brynell 7 11 Heinatz 0 : 1 Hellsten 8 12 Wegener ½ : ½ Schoene 10 13 Andresen 1 : 0 Rudolf 11 SK König Plauen 3½-4½ USC Magdeburg 1 Beliavsky 0 : 1 Slobodjan 2 2 Kindermann ½ : ½ Rogozenko 4 3 Gdanski ½ : ½ Baklan 5 4 Bischoff 1 : 0 Proehl 8 5 Espig 0 : 1 Markgraf 10 7 Schaller 1 : 0 Darnstaedt 11 11 Kuraszkiewic 0 : 1 Studeny 13 12 Pfretzschner ½ : ½ Bundrock 14 Hamburger SK 4½-3½ SV Tegernsee 1 Ftacnik ½ : ½ Khenkin 1 2 Kempinski ½ : ½ Beim 2 3 Wahls 0 : 1 Hertneck 3 4 Mueller ½ : ½ Teske 4 5 Heinemann 1 : 0 Pezerovic 6 6 Hansen 1 : 0 Kachiani-Ger 7 8 Gustafsson ½ : ½ Klundt 9 10 Reeh ½ : ½ Bayer 11 Lübecker SV 2½-5½ SK Passau 1 Shirov 0 : 1 Schlosser 1 2 Speelman ½ : ½ Ribli 2 4 DeFirmian ½ : ½ Smejkal 4 5 Nunn 0 : 1 Enders 5 6 Hansen ½ : ½ Stangl 6 7 Hector 0 : 1 Renner 8 8 Kalinitschew ½ : ½ Gross 10 9 Lau ½ : ½ Schmidt 11 SG Köln Porz 6½-1½ SV Wattenscheid 1 Lutz ½ : ½ Nielsen 2 3 Khalifman ½ : ½ Rustemov 3 6 Vaganian 1 : 0 Hall 4 7 Andersson 1 : 0 Sjoedahl 6 8 Hansen 1 : 0 Holzke 7 9 Bacrot 1 : 0 Straeter 10 13 Hort ½ : ½ Franke 11 14 Van der Doel 1 : 0 Thiel 13 PSV Duisburg 2½-5½ Solinger SG 1 Epishin ½ : ½ Jussupow 3 2 Sax 0 : 1 Sadler 4 4 Marciano ½ : ½ Huebner 6 5 Miralles 0 : 1 Kasimdzhanov 9 8 Thesing 1 : 0 Lobron 11 11 Berg 0 : 1 Naumann 12 12 Kummerow 0 : 1 Chandler 13 13 Schmitz ½ : ½ Schaefer 14 Godesberger SK 5½-2½ SV Werder Bremen 3 Dautov ½ : ½ Hracek 1 4 Gurevich 1 : 0 Babula 2 5 Kengis 1 : 0 McShane 3 6 David ½ : ½ Pelletier 4 7 Kveinys 1 : 0 Knaak 5 9 Heinbuch ½ : ½ Schandorff 6 10 Jackelen ½ : ½ Heissler 7 11 Schmidt,B ½ : ½ Meins 8 Castrop Rauxel 4½-3½ SK Delmenhorst 1 Rozentalis 0 : 1 Rogers 2 2 Van der Ster ½ : ½ Hodgson 3 3 King 0 : 1 Brenninkmeij 6 4 Gallagher 1 : 0 Lauber 8 5 Seul ½ : ½ Borik 9 6 Bosch ½ : ½ Beckemeyer 10 8 Watson 1 : 0 Breutigam 11 13 Lemmers 1 : 0 Dornieden 13
29 January 2000 Round 8 The big match, if not 'the' match, of the season was Soligen versus Porz, and it was the same story as last year with Porz winning, which has effectively decided the title; Porz just don't lose against anyone else. Ironically, neither side was at full strength due to the Corus super tournament: Solingen missing Adams/Nikolic and Porz without Van Wely/Timman. This affected Solingen more since Adams never loses and Nikolic is in top form in the Bundesliga with 5/5. Whereas Porz had in form players Lutz, Hansen and Andersson with Bundesliga rating performances of 2704, 2823(!) and 2783 respectively. In fact, Hansen won both games at the weekend so he will have a fantastic performance rating now. Solingen could at least take solace in that Sadler beat the FIDE World Champion Khalifman. But actually Khalifman is having a bit of a hard time since winning his crown - but I guess everyone wants to beat a World Champion. Sadler is probably only the 5th/6th Englishman to beat a reigning WC (no pun intended!). Delmenhorst continued their good run (even after defaulting a game) with particularly good wins from Rogers and Hodgson, pushing the latters average rating into the 2700's. Castrop Rauxel had a big win against Bremen, with an old dog (King) teaching a young puppy (McShane) a few tricks. There were also solid victories for Luebeck (vs Tegernsee) and Wattenscheid (vs Duisburg). Finally Hamburg managed to gain a point against an in-form Passau and Dresden did well to beat Magdeburg. USC Magdeburg 3½-4½ Dresdner SC SFR Neukölln 4 - 4 SK König Plauen SK Passau 4 - 4 Hamburger SK SV Tegernsee 3 - 5 Lübecker SV Solinger SG 3½-4½ SG Köln Porz SV Wattenscheid 5½-2½ PSV Duisburg SK Delmenhorst 5½-2½ Godesberger SK SV Werder Bremen 2 - 6 Castrop Rauxel USC Magdeburg 3½-4½ Dresdner SC 2 Slobodjan 0 : 1 Tischbierek 2 4 Rogozenko 1 : 0 Borriss 5 5 Baklan 1 : 0 Maiwald 6 8 Proehl 1 : 0 Uhlmann 8 10 Markgraf 0 : 1 Goldberg 9 11 Darnstaedt 0 : 1 Heinatz 11 12 Kapischka ½ : ½ Wegener 12 13 Studeny 0 : 1 Andresen 13 SFR Neukölln 4 - 4 SK König Plauen 1 Movsesian ½ : ½ Beliavsky 1 3 Bunzmann ½ : ½ Kindermann 2 4 Stohl ½ : ½ Gdanski 3 5 Berndt ½ : ½ Bischoff 4 7 Brynell ½ : ½ Espig 5 8 Hellsten ½ : ½ Schaller 7 10 Schoene ½ : ½ Sandner 10 11 Rudolf ½ : ½ Kuraszkiewic 11 SK Passau 4 - 4 Hamburger SK 1 Schlosser ½ : ½ Ftacnik 1 2 Ribli ½ : ½ Kempinski 2 3 Wells 0 : 1 Wahls 3 4 Smejkal ½ : ½ Mueller 4 5 Enders 1 : 0 Heinemann 5 6 Stangl 1 : 0 Hansen 6 8 Renner ½ : ½ Gustafsson 8 11 Schmidt 0 : 1 Reeh 10 SV Tegernsee 3 - 5 Lübecker SV 1 Khenkin ½ : ½ Shirov 1 2 Beim ½ : ½ Speelman 2 3 Hertneck ½ : ½ DeFirmian 4 4 Teske 0 : 1 Nunn 5 6 Pezerovic 0 : 1 Hansen 6 7 Kachiani-Ger ½ : ½ Hector 7 9 Klundt ½ : ½ Kalinitschew 8 10 Bromberger ½ : ½ Lau 9 Solinger SG 3½-4½ SG Köln Porz 3 Jussupow ½ : ½ Lutz 1 4 Sadler 1 : 0 Khalifman 3 6 Huebner ½ : ½ Vaganian 6 9 Kasimdzhanov ½ : ½ Andersson 7 11 Lobron 0 : 1 Hansen 8 12 Naumann 0 : 1 Bacrot 9 13 Chandler ½ : ½ Hort 13 14 Schaefer ½ : ½ Van der Doel 14 SV Wattenscheid 5½-2½ PSV Duisburg 2 Nielsen ½ : ½ Epishin 1 3 Rustemov 1 : 0 Sax 2 4 Hall 1 : 0 Marciano 4 5 Ziegler ½ : ½ Miralles 5 6 Sjoedahl ½ : ½ Thesing 8 7 Holzke 1 : 0 Zude 10 8 Ellers 0 : 1 Berg 11 10 Straeter 1 : 0 Kummerow 12 SK Delmenhorst 5½-2½ Godesberger SK 2 Rogers 1 : 0 Dautov 3 3 Hodgson 1 : 0 Gurevich 4 4 Baburin ½ : ½ Kengis 5 7 Gisbrecht ½ : ½ David 6 8 Lauber - : + Kveinys 7 9 Borik 1 : 0 Heinbuch 9 10 Beckemeyer ½ : ½ Jackelen 10 11 Breutigam 1 : 0 Schmidt,B 11 SV Werder Bremen 2 - 6 Castrop Rauxel 1 Hracek ½ : ½ Rozentalis 1 2 Babula 0 : 1 Van der Ster 2 3 McShane 0 : 1 King 3 4 Pelletier ½ : ½ Gallagher 4 5 Knaak 0 : 1 Seul 5 6 Schandorff ½ : ½ Bosch 6 7 Heissler 0 : 1 Watson 8 8 Meins ½ : ½ Dinstuhl 9
9 January 2000 Round 7 Delmenhorst slipped up for the first time with the English players for once not delivering the goods. No mistakes for the big boys: Porz 7-1 and Solingen 7½-½ whose opponents effectively resigned before playing since they fielded very weak teams. Godesberg dropped a point against a weak Castrop Rauxel team even though they fielded 6 GM's! Unfortunately Hamburg lost against their travel partners Luebeck who had their top two players missing ... we are definitely in need of a win. PSV Duisburg 1 - 7 SG Köln Porz Castrop Rauxel 4 - 4 Godesberger SK SK Delmenhorst 3½-4½ SV Werder Bremen Solinger SG 7½- ½ SV Wattenscheid SV Tegernsee 3½-4½ SK Passau USC Magdeburg 3½-4½ SFR Neukölln Hamburger SK 2½-5½ Lübecker SV SK König Plauen 3 - 5 Dresdner SC PSV Duisburg 1 - 7 SG Köln Porz 1 Epishin ½ : ½ Lutz 1 6 Unzicker 0 : 1 Van Wely 2 7 Kraut 0 : 1 Vaganian 6 8 Thesing 0 : 1 Hansen 8 10 Zude 0 : 1 Nijboer 10 12 Kummerow ½ : ½ Vogt 11 13 Schmitz - : + Van der Wiel 12 14 Groth 0 : 1 Hort 13 Castrop Rauxel 4 - 4 Godesberger SK 2 Van der Ster 0 : 1 Lautier 1 5 Seul ½ : ½ Dautov 3 6 Bosch 0 : 1 Gurevich 4 7 Hoffmann ½ : ½ Kengis 5 9 Dinstuhl 1 : 0 David 6 10 Hennig 0 : 1 Kveinys 7 12 Appel 1 : 0 Jackelen 10 13 Lemmers 1 : 0 Schmidt,B 11 SK Delmenhorst 3½-4½ SV Werder Bremen 1 Agdestein 1 : 0 Hracek 1 3 Hodgson 0 : 1 Babula 2 4 Baburin ½ : ½ Pelletier 4 5 Conquest 0 : 1 Knaak 5 7 Gisbrecht 0 : 1 Schandorff 6 8 Lauber 1 : 0 Heissler 7 9 Borik 0 : 1 Meins 8 10 Beckemeyer 1 : 0 Meyer 11 Solinger SG 7½- ½ SV Wattenscheid 3 Jussupow ½ : ½ Holzke 7 5 Nikolic 1 : 0 Ellers 8 6 Huebner 1 : 0 Sandkamp 9 7 Piket 1 : 0 Straeter 10 9 Kasimdzhanov 1 : 0 Franke 11 11 Lobron 1 : 0 Koehn 12 12 Naumann 1 : 0 Thiel 13 14 Schaefer 1 : 0 Lauzeningks 14 SV Tegernsee 3½-4½ SK Passau 1 Khenkin ½ : ½ Schlosser 1 2 Beim ½ : ½ Ribli 2 3 Hertneck ½ : ½ Wells 3 4 Teske 0 : 1 Enders 5 5 Schmittdiel ½ : ½ Stangl 6 6 Pezerovic 1 : 0 Renner 8 7 Kachiani-Ger ½ : ½ Gross 10 9 Klundt 0 : 1 Schmidt 11 USC Magdeburg 3½-4½ SFR Neukölln 1 Onischuk 0 : 1 Movsesian 1 4 Rogozenko 1 : 0 Bunzmann 3 5 Baklan ½ : ½ Stohl 4 6 Georgiev 1 : 0 Berndt 5 8 Proehl 1 : 0 Poldauf 6 9 Stolz 0 : 1 Hellsten 8 10 Markgraf 0 : 1 Polzin 9 11 Darnstaedt 0 : 1 Thiede 12 Hamburger SK 2½-5½ Lübecker SV 1 Ftacnik 0 : 1 DeFirmian 4 3 Wahls ½ : ½ Nunn 5 4 Mueller ½ : ½ Hansen 6 5 Heinemann ½ : ½ Hector 7 6 Hansen ½ : ½ Kalinitschew 8 7 Wilhelmi ½ : ½ Lau 9 8 Gustafsson 0 : 1 Mortensen 10 9 Michaelsen 0 : 1 Blauert 12 SK König Plauen 3 - 5 Dresdner SC 2 Kindermann 0 : 1 Almasi 1 5 Espig 1 : 0 Tischbierek 2 6 Hackel 0 : 1 Boensch 4 7 Schaller ½ : ½ Borriss 5 9 Haskamp 0 : 1 Maiwald 6 10 Sandner ½ : ½ Lanka 7 11 Kuraszkiewic 0 : 1 Uhlmann 8 12 Pfretzschner 1 : 0 Goldberg 9
12 December 1999 Round 6 Oh Hamburg!!! what are you doing to me! two losses for my beloved Hamburg makes life difficult ... Anyway, the surprise package this year is Delmenhorst, who with not a particularly strong team are tied for first place with the mighty Porz and Solingen. In fact they took a point off Porz which hasn't happened for a LONG time by any team(!). Solingen had Mickey (up to 5th in the world rankings) back and it showed with two solid 5½-2½ wins against Hamburg and Luebeck. Coming in at number 4 is Godesberg who downed Dresden and the high-flying Koenig Plauen. After this there are an amazing 10 teams with 4-6 points! this means the end of season relegation struggle promises to be very interesting ... Surprisingly, at the bottom we find Luebeck with only 3 points which I can't imagine will remain so, but the bottom team, Duisberg, look doomed already. Dresdner SC 3½-4½ Godesberger SK SK König Plauen 2½-5½ Castrop Rauxel SG Köln Porz 4 - 4 SK Delmenhorst PSV Duisburg 3½-4½ SV Werder Bremen Solinger SG 5½-2½ Lübecker SV SV Wattenscheid 4½-3½ Hamburger SK SFR Neukölln 2 - 6 SK Passau USC Magdeburg 4 - 4 SV Tegernsee Dresdner SC 3½-4½ Godesberger SK 2 Tischbierek - : + Dautov 3 3 Socko 1 : 0 Gurevich 4 4 Boensch 0 : 1 Kengis 5 5 Borriss 1 : 0 David 6 6 Maiwald 0 : 1 Kveinys 7 7 Lanka 1 : 0 Heinbuch 9 8 Uhlmann ½ : ½ Jackelen 10 11 Heinatz 0 : 1 Schmidt,B 11 SK König Plauen 2½-5½ Castrop Rauxel 2 Kindermann 0 : 1 Rozentalis 1 4 Bischoff ½ : ½ Van der Ster 2 5 Espig ½ : ½ King 3 6 Hackel 0 : 1 Gallagher 4 7 Schaller 1 : 0 Bosch 6 9 Haskamp ½ : ½ Dinstuhl 9 10 Sandner 0 : 1 Hennig 10 11 Kuraszkiewic 0 : 1 Appel 12 SG Köln Porz 4 - 4 SK Delmenhorst 1 Lutz ½ : ½ Agdestein 1 2 Van Wely 0 : 1 Hodgson 3 3 Khalifman ½ : ½ Baburin 4 4 Timman ½ : ½ Conquest 5 6 Vaganian ½ : ½ Brenninkmeij 6 7 Andersson 1 : 0 Gisbrecht 7 8 Hansen ½ : ½ Lauber 8 11 Vogt ½ : ½ Breutigam 11 PSV Duisburg 3½-4½ SV Werder Bremen 1 Epishin ½ : ½ Babula 2 2 Sax ½ : ½ McShane 3 4 Marciano ½ : ½ Pelletier 4 5 Miralles 1 : 0 Knaak 5 6 Unzicker ½ : ½ Schandorff 6 7 Kraut 0 : 1 Heissler 7 8 Thesing ½ : ½ Meins 8 9 Machelett 0 : 1 Polak 9 Solinger SG 5½-2½ Lübecker SV 1 Adams 1 : 0 Speelman 2 3 Jussupow ½ : ½ DeFirmian 4 4 Sadler 0 : 1 Nunn 5 5 Nikolic 1 : 0 Hansen 6 6 Huebner ½ : ½ Hector 7 7 Piket ½ : ½ Kalinitschew 8 9 Kasimdzhanov 1 : 0 Mortensen 10 10 Emms 1 : 0 Cladouras 11 SV Wattenscheid 4½-3½ Hamburger SK 2 Nielsen 1 : 0 Ftacnik 1 3 Rustemov 0 : 1 Kempinski 2 4 Hall ½ : ½ Wahls 3 5 Ziegler 1 : 0 Mueller 4 7 Holzke ½ : ½ Heinemann 5 8 Ellers ½ : ½ Wilhelmi 7 10 Straeter 1 : 0 Michaelsen 9 12 Koehn 0 : 1 Reeh 10 SFR Neukölln 2 - 6 SK Passau 1 Movsesian ½ : ½ Schlosser 1 3 Bunzmann ½ : ½ Ribli 2 4 Stohl ½ : ½ Wells 3 5 Berndt ½ : ½ Enders 5 6 Poldauf 0 : 1 Stangl 6 7 Brynell 0 : 1 Renner 8 9 Polzin 0 : 1 Gross 10 10 Schoene 0 : 1 Schmidt 11 USC Magdeburg 4 - 4 SV Tegernsee 1 Onischuk ½ : ½ Khenkin 1 2 Slobodjan ½ : ½ Beim 2 4 Rogozenko ½ : ½ Hertneck 3 5 Baklan ½ : ½ Teske 4 6 Georgiev ½ : ½ Pezerovic 6 8 Proehl ½ : ½ Kachiani-Ger 7 9 Stolz ½ : ½ Klundt 9 10 Markgraf ½ : ½ Bromberger 10
11 December 1999 Round 5 Castrop Rauxel 5½-2½ Dresdner SC Godesberger SK 6 - 2 SK König Plauen SV Werder Bremen 3½-4½ SG Köln Porz SK Delmenhorst 4½-3½ PSV Duisburg Hamburger SK 2½-5½ Solinger SG Lübecker SV 3½-4½ SV Wattenscheid SV Tegernsee 4½-3½ SFR Neukölln SK Passau 4 - 4 USC Magdeburg Castrop Rauxel 5½-2½ Dresdner SC 1 Rozentalis + : - Tischbierek 2 2 Van der Ster 1 : 0 Socko 3 3 King 1 : 0 Boensch 4 4 Gallagher ½ : ½ Borriss 5 5 Seul 0 : 1 Maiwald 6 6 Bosch ½ : ½ Lanka 7 7 Hoffmann ½ : ½ Uhlmann 8 12 Appel 1 : 0 Heinatz 11 Godesberger SK 6 - 2 SK König Plauen 3 Dautov ½ : ½ Kindermann 2 4 Gurevich 1 : 0 Bischoff 4 5 Kengis ½ : ½ Espig 5 6 David 1 : 0 Hackel 6 7 Kveinys 1 : 0 Schaller 7 9 Heinbuch 1 : 0 Haskamp 9 10 Jackelen ½ : ½ Sandner 10 11 Schmidt,B ½ : ½ Kuraszkiewic 11 SV Werder Bremen 3½-4½ SG Köln Porz 2 Babula ½ : ½ Lutz 1 3 McShane 1 : 0 Van Wely 2 4 Pelletier 0 : 1 Khalifman 3 5 Knaak ½ : ½ Timman 4 6 Schandorff ½ : ½ Vaganian 6 7 Heissler 0 : 1 Andersson 7 8 Meins 0 : 1 Hansen 8 9 Polak 1 : 0 Vogt 11 SK Delmenhorst 4½-3½ PSV Duisburg 1 Agdestein 0 : 1 Epishin 1 3 Hodgson ½ : ½ Sax 2 4 Baburin ½ : ½ Marciano 4 5 Conquest ½ : ½ Miralles 5 6 Brenninkmeij 1 : 0 Unzicker 6 7 Gisbrecht ½ : ½ Kraut 7 8 Lauber ½ : ½ Thesing 8 9 Borik 1 : 0 Machelett 9 Hamburger SK 2½-5½ Solinger SG 1 Ftacnik ½ : ½ Adams 1 2 Kempinski 0 : 1 Jussupow 3 3 Wahls ½ : ½ Sadler 4 4 Mueller 0 : 1 Nikolic 5 7 Wilhelmi ½ : ½ Huebner 6 10 Reeh ½ : ½ Piket 7 11 Loeffler 0 : 1 Kasimdzhanov 9 12 Sievers ½ : ½ Emms 10 Lübecker SV 3½-4½ SV Wattenscheid 2 Speelman ½ : ½ Nielsen 2 4 DeFirmian 0 : 1 Rustemov 3 5 Nunn ½ : ½ Hall 4 6 Hansen 1 : 0 Ziegler 5 7 Hector 1 : 0 Holzke 7 8 Kalinitschew 0 : 1 Ellers 8 10 Mortensen 0 : 1 Straeter 10 12 Blauert ½ : ½ Koehn 12 SV Tegernsee 4½-3½ SFR Neukölln 1 Khenkin ½ : ½ Movsesian 1 2 Beim 0 : 1 Bunzmann 3 3 Hertneck ½ : ½ Stohl 4 4 Teske 1 : 0 Berndt 5 6 Pezerovic ½ : ½ Poldauf 6 7 Kachiani-Ger 1 : 0 Brynell 7 9 Klundt ½ : ½ Polzin 9 11 Bayer ½ : ½ Schoene 10 SK Passau 4 - 4 USC Magdeburg 1 Schlosser ½ : ½ Onischuk 1 2 Ribli ½ : ½ Slobodjan 2 3 Wells 0 : 1 Rogozenko 4 5 Enders ½ : ½ Baklan 5 6 Stangl 0 : 1 Georgiev 6 8 Renner 1 : 0 Proehl 8 10 Gross 1 : 0 Stolz 9 11 Schmidt ½ : ½ Markgraf 10
7 November 1999 Round 4 A 3-5 loss for Passau sealed off an awful weekend of 0/4 points, even with 6 GM's a team can't be assured of points in this years super-strong Bundesliga boasting over 100 GM's! Delmenhorst beat Hamburg and thus went home with all 4/4 points. They may not be jam-packed with GM's but the four top players are all fighters and these players can beat almost anyone - Hodgson is playing particularly well at the moment having attained 200/200 in the UK Grand Prix. Luebeck also had a dismal time with 0/4 after showing so much promise in the first 2 rounds they find themselves mid-table with their tail between their legs. The German Wunderkind Bunzmann has had a poor start with 2 more losses this weekend (½/4 so far) after a fantastic season last year he stormed up the ELO list and is now finding it more difficult there than he did getting there... Hansen for Porz has 4/4 with Rogozenko/Dresden 3½/4. Beliavsky/Plauen has 3/4 on top board and the team is well placed in 5th position. After 4 rounds we see a slight gap opening up at the top: Porz, Delmenhorst and Solingen. Wattenscheid and Dusiburg are suffering big-time and both already look doomed. SK Passau 3 - 5 Dresdner SC SV Tegernsee 2 - 6 SK König Plauen Solinger SG 5½-2½ USC Magdeburg SV Wattenscheid 3½-4½ SFR Neukölln SK Delmenhorst 4½-3½ Hamburger SK SV Werder Bremen 4½-3½ Lübecker SV SG Köln Porz 6 - 2 Godesberger SK PSV Duisburg 3 - 5 Castrop Rauxel SK Passau 3 - 5 Dresdner SC 1 Schlosser ½ : ½ Almasi 1 2 Ribli ½ : ½ Tischbierek 2 3 Wells ½ : ½ Socko 3 4 Smejkal ½ : ½ Boensch 4 5 Enders 0 : 1 Borriss 5 6 Stangl ½ : ½ Maiwald 6 8 Renner 0 : 1 Uhlmann 8 10 Gross ½ : ½ Gauglitz 10 SV Tegernsee 2 - 6 SK König Plauen 1 Khenkin 0 : 1 Beliavsky 1 2 Beim ½ : ½ Kindermann 2 3 Hertneck 0 : 1 Gdanski 3 4 Teske ½ : ½ Bischoff 4 5 Schmittdiel 0 : 1 Espig 5 6 Pezerovic ½ : ½ Hackel 6 7 Kachiani-Ger 0 : 1 Schaller 7 9 Klundt ½ : ½ Sandner 10 Solinger SG 5½-2½ USC Magdeburg 3 Jussupow ½ : ½ Onischuk 1 5 Nikolic 1 : 0 Slobodjan 2 6 Huebner ½ : ½ Rogozenko 4 7 Piket 0 : 1 Baklan 5 9 Kasimdzhanov 1 : 0 Georgiev 6 11 Lobron 1 : 0 Proehl 8 12 Naumann 1 : 0 Stolz 9 13 Chandler ½ : ½ Darnstaedt 11 SV Wattenscheid 3½-4½ SFR Neukölln 2 Nielsen 0 : 1 Movsesian 1 3 Rustemov 1 : 0 Bunzmann 3 5 Ziegler 0 : 1 Stohl 4 6 Sjoedahl ½ : ½ Berndt 5 7 Holzke 1 : 0 Poldauf 6 8 Ellers 0 : 1 Polzin 9 12 Koehn 1 : 0 Rudolf 11 13 Thiel 0 : 1 Thiede 12 SK Delmenhorst 4½-3½ Hamburger SK 1 Agdestein 0 : 1 Ftacnik 1 2 Rogers ½ : ½ Kempinski 2 3 Hodgson ½ : ½ Wahls 3 5 Conquest 1 : 0 Mueller 4 7 Gisbrecht ½ : ½ Heinemann 5 8 Lauber 0 : 1 Gustafsson 8 10 Beckemeyer 1 : 0 Reeh 10 11 Breutigam 1 : 0 Loeffler 11 SV Werder Bremen 4½-3½ Lübecker SV 1 Hracek ½ : ½ Shirov 1 2 Babula ½ : ½ Bareev 3 4 Pelletier ½ : ½ Nunn 5 5 Knaak 1 : 0 Kalinitschew 8 6 Schandorff 1 : 0 Lau 9 7 Heissler 0 : 1 Mortensen 10 8 Meins ½ : ½ Cladouras 11 11 Meyer ½ : ½ Blauert 12 SG Köln Porz 6 - 2 Godesberger SK 1 Lutz ½ : ½ Lautier 1 2 Van Wely 1 : 0 Chernin 2 3 Khalifman ½ : ½ Dautov 3 4 Timman 1 : 0 Gurevich 4 6 Vaganian ½ : ½ Kengis 5 7 Andersson 1 : 0 David 6 8 Hansen 1 : 0 Jackelen 10 13 Hort ½ : ½ Schmidt,B 11 PSV Duisburg 3 - 5 Castrop Rauxel 1 Epishin 0 : 1 Rozentalis 1 4 Marciano ½ : ½ Van der Ster 2 5 Miralles 0 : 1 King 3 7 Kraut 1 : 0 Seul 5 9 Machelett ½ : ½ Bosch 6 11 Berg 0 : 1 Hoffmann 7 12 Kummerow ½ : ½ Hennig 10 13 Schmitz ½ : ½ Appel 12
6 November 1999 Round 3 No major surprises in this round, although there was a good win by Delmenhorst against Luebeck who were missing some key players. Porz had a solid win against Castrop Rauxel but it does look somewhat odd to see the World Champion playing on board 3! The Porz lower boards look like a roll-call from an early Tilburg tournament (Timman, Vaganian, Andersson, Hort)... Godesburger scraped through with a 4½-3½ win against Duisburg despite having 5 (or maybe 6) GM's. SK König Plauen 4½-3½ SK Passau Dresdner SC 4 - 4 SV Tegernsee SFR Neukölln 3 - 5 Solinger SG USC Magdeburg 5½-2½ SV Wattenscheid Lübecker SV 3 - 5 SK Delmenhorst Hamburger SK 5 - 3 SV Werder Bremen Castrop Rauxel 2 - 6 SG Köln Porz Godesberger SK 4½-3½ PSV Duisburg SK König Plauen 4½-3½ SK Passau 1 Beliavsky 1 : 0 Schlosser 1 2 Kindermann ½ : ½ Ribli 2 3 Gdanski 1 : 0 Wells 3 4 Bischoff ½ : ½ Smejkal 4 5 Espig 0 : 1 Enders 5 6 Hackel 1 : 0 Stangl 6 7 Schaller ½ : ½ Renner 8 9 Haskamp 0 : 1 Gross 10 Dresdner SC 4 - 4 SV Tegernsee 1 Almasi 0 : 1 Khenkin 1 2 Tischbierek 1 : 0 Beim 2 3 Socko 0 : 1 Hertneck 3 4 Boensch 1 : 0 Teske 4 5 Borriss ½ : ½ Schmittdiel 5 6 Maiwald ½ : ½ Pezerovic 6 8 Uhlmann 0 : 1 Kachiani-Ger 7 10 Gauglitz 1 : 0 Klundt 9 SFR Neukölln 3 - 5 Solinger SG 1 Movsesian 1 : 0 Jussupow 3 3 Bunzmann 0 : 1 Nikolic 5 4 Stohl 0 : 1 Huebner 6 5 Berndt ½ : ½ Piket 7 6 Poldauf 0 : 1 Kasimdzhanov 9 9 Polzin ½ : ½ Lobron 11 11 Rudolf ½ : ½ Naumann 12 12 Thiede ½ : ½ Chandler 13 USC Magdeburg 5½-2½ SV Wattenscheid 1 Onischuk 1 : 0 Nielsen 2 2 Slobodjan ½ : ½ Rustemov 3 4 Rogozenko 1 : 0 Ziegler 5 5 Baklan 1 : 0 Sjoedahl 6 6 Georgiev ½ : ½ Holzke 7 8 Proehl ½ : ½ Ellers 8 9 Stolz ½ : ½ Franke 11 11 Darnstaedt ½ : ½ Thiel 13 Lübecker SV 3 - 5 SK Delmenhorst 1 Shirov ½ : ½ Agdestein 1 3 Bareev ½ : ½ Rogers 2 5 Nunn ½ : ½ Hodgson 3 8 Kalinitschew ½ : ½ Conquest 5 9 Lau 0 : 1 Gisbrecht 7 10 Mortensen 0 : 1 Lauber 8 11 Cladouras ½ : ½ Borik 9 12 Blauert ½ : ½ Beckemeyer 10 Hamburger SK 5 - 3 SV Werder Bremen 1 Ftacnik 1 : 0 Hracek 1 2 Kempinski ½ : ½ Babula 2 3 Wahls ½ : ½ Pelletier 4 4 Mueller 0 : 1 Knaak 5 5 Heinemann ½ : ½ Schandorff 6 8 Gustafsson 1 : 0 Heissler 7 10 Reeh 1 : 0 Meins 8 11 Loeffler ½ : ½ Meyer 11 Castrop Rauxel 2 - 6 SG Köln Porz 1 Rozentalis 0 : 1 Lutz 1 2 Van der Ster 1 : 0 Van Wely 2 3 King ½ : ½ Khalifman 3 5 Seul 0 : 1 Timman 4 6 Bosch 0 : 1 Vaganian 6 9 Dinstuhl ½ : ½ Andersson 7 11 Brendel 0 : 1 Hansen 8 13 Lemmers 0 : 1 Hort 13 Godesberger SK 4½-3½ PSV Duisburg 1 Lautier ½ : ½ Epishin 1 3 Dautov ½ : ½ Marciano 4 4 Gurevich ½ : ½ Miralles 5 5 Kengis 1 : 0 Kraut 7 6 David ½ : ½ Machelett 9 7 Kveinys 1 : 0 Berg 11 9 Heinbuch 0 : 1 Kummerow 12 10 Jackelen ½ : ½ Schmitz 13
10 October 1999 Round 2
It looks like the mighty Porz were given a run for their money by Dresden
it will be interesting to see how close it really was. Solingen scraped a
win by the narrowest of margins so I think they will be hoping Adams
returns soon!
I'm glad to see my old club Hamburg managed to get off the mark with a
convincing victory against Castrop Rauxel.
Lubeck and Bad Godesberg drew their match (Lautier turning up
on Bd 1 for the latter) both teams are strong (and new to the top flight) so
it will be interesting to see how they fare against the established Porz
and Solingen. They are sitting 3rd/4th after 2 rounds.
Heroes of the first 2 rounds ie 2/2:
Socko - Dresden
Hansen/Bacrot - Porz (a good start for the young Frenchman,
Bunzmann/McShane are still to win)
Hansen - Hamburg
Hodgson - Delmenhorst
Rogozemko/Georgiev - Magdeburg (two people on maximum but no team win yet)
Enders - Passau
Chandler - Solingen
Dresdner SC 3 - 5 SG Köln Porz
SK König Plauen 4 - 4 PSV Duisburg
Hamburger SK 6½-1½ Castrop Rauxel
Lübecker SV 4 - 4 Bad Godesberg
SFR Neukölln 3 - 5 SK Delmenhorst
USC Magdeburg 4 - 4 SV Werder Bremen
Solinger SG 4½-3½ SV Tegernsee
SV Wattenscheid 4 - 4 SK Passau
Dresdner SC 3 - 5 SG Köln Porz
2 Tischbierek 0 : 1 Lutz 1
3 Socko 1 : 0 Van Wely 2
4 Boensch 1 : 0 Timman 4
6 Maiwald 0 : 1 Sokolov 5
7 Lanka ½ : ½ Vaganian 6
8 Uhlmann 0 : 1 Hansen 8
11 Heinatz 0 : 1 Bacrot 9
12 Wegener ½ : ½ Nijboer 10
SK König Plauen 4 - 4 PSV Duisburg
1 Beliavsky ½ : ½ Epishin 1
2 Kindermann ½ : ½ Nevednichy 3
4 Bischoff ½ : ½ Miralles 5
5 Espig ½ : ½ Unzicker 6
6 Hackel 0 : 1 Kraut 7
7 Schaller ½ : ½ Thesing 8
9 Haskamp 1 : 0 Zude 10
11 Kuraszkiewic ½ : ½ Berg 11
Hamburger SK 6½-1½ Castrop Rauxel
1 Ftacnik ½ : ½ Rozentalis 1
2 Kempinski ½ : ½ Van der Ster 2
3 Wahls 1 : 0 Gallagher 4
4 Mueller 1 : 0 Seul 5
5 Heinemann ½ : ½ Bosch 6
6 Hansen 1 : 0 Hoffmann 7
7 Wilhelmi 1 : 0 Watson 8
8 Gustafsson 1 : 0 Dinstuhl 9
Lübecker SV 4 - 4 Bad Godesberg
1 Shirov ½ : ½ Lautier 1
2 Speelman ½ : ½ Dautov 3
3 Bareev ½ : ½ Gurevich 4
4 DeFirmian ½ : ½ Kengis 5
5 Nunn ½ : ½ David 6
6 Hansen ½ : ½ Kveinys 7
7 Hector ½ : ½ Jackelen 10
13 Sieg ½ : ½ Schmidt 11
SFR Neukölln 3 - 5 SK Delmenhorst
1 Movsesian 0 : 1 Agdestein 1
3 Bunzmann 0 : 1 Hodgson 3
4 Stohl ½ : ½ Conquest 5
5 Berndt 0 : 1 Gisbrecht 7
6 Poldauf ½ : ½ Lauber 8
8 Hellsten 1 : 0 Borik 9
9 Polzin ½ : ½ Breutigam 11
12 Thiede ½ : ½ Wesseln 12
USC Magdeburg 4 - 4 SV Werder Bremen
1 Onischuk ½ : ½ Hracek 1
2 Slobodjan 0 : 1 Babula 2
4 Rogozenko 1 : 0 McShane 3
5 Baklan ½ : ½ Pelletier 4
6 Georgiev 1 : 0 Knaak 5
8 Proehl ½ : ½ Schandorff 6
10 Markgraf 0 : 1 Heissler 7
11 Darnstaedt ½ : ½ Meins 8
Solinger SG 4½-3½ SV Tegernsee
3 Jussupow ½ : ½ Khenkin 1
6 Huebner ½ : ½ Beim 2
7 Piket ½ : ½ Hertneck 3
9 Kasimdzhanov ½ : ½ Teske 4
11 Lobron ½ : ½ Pezerovic 6
12 Naumann 0 : 1 Kachiani-Ger 7
13 Chandler 1 : 0 Klundt 9
14 Schaefer 1 : 0 Bayer 11
SV Wattenscheid 4 - 4 SK Passau
2 Nielsen ½ : ½ Schlosser 1
3 Rustemov ½ : ½ Ribli 2
4 Hall 1 : 0 Wells 3
6 Sjoedahl 1 : 0 Smejkal 4
7 Holzke 0 : 1 Enders 5
8 Ellers 1 : 0 Stangl 6
9 Sandkamp 0 : 1 Renner 8
10 Straeter 0 : 1 Gross 10
9 October 1999 Round 1
A surprise in the first round was that Solingen (albeit not at full
strength) could only draw against Passau. Last year Porz and Solingen
were both on maximum points until they played each other in the last
round.
However, there are several new strong teams which have been promoted
eg Lubeck and Godesberg who will hopefully cause an upset to make
things a bit more interesting.
The Lubeck team has increased in strength dramatically since last year
adding: Shirov, Speelman, Bareev, De Firmian, Nunn!
yes thats right ... Nunn on Board 5!!
It was a shame the two new Wunderkinder (McShane and Bunzmann) did not play
in the Bremen/Neukoeln match.
PSV Duisburg 3½-4½ Dresdner SC
SG Köln Porz 6½-1½ SK König Plauen
Bad Godesberg 5 - 3 Hamburger SK
Castrop Rauxel 2 - 6 Lübecker SV
SV Werder Bremen 3 - 5 SFR Neukölln
SK Delmenhorst 4½-3½ USC Magdeburg
SK Passau 4 - 4 Solinger SG
SV Tegernsee 6 - 2 SV Wattenscheid
PSV Duisburg 3½-4½ Dresdner SC
1 Epishin 1 : 0 Tischbierek 2
3 Nevednichy 0 : 1 Socko 3
5 Miralles ½ : ½ Boensch 4
6 Unzicker ½ : ½ Maiwald 6
7 Kraut 0 : 1 Lanka 7
8 Thesing ½ : ½ Uhlmann 8
10 Zude 0 : 1 Heinatz 11
11 Berg 1 : 0 Wegener 12
SG Köln Porz 6½-1½ SK König Plauen
1 Lutz ½ : ½ Beliavsky 1
2 Van Wely 1 : 0 Kindermann 2
4 Timman ½ : ½ Bischoff 4
5 Sokolov ½ : ½ Espig 5
6 Vaganian 1 : 0 Hackel 6
8 Hansen 1 : 0 Schaller 7
9 Bacrot 1 : 0 Haskamp 9
10 Nijboer 1 : 0 Kuraszkiewic 11
Bad Godesberg 5 - 3 Hamburger SK
3 Dautov ½ : ½ Ftacnik 1
4 Gurevich 1 : 0 Kempinski 2
5 Kengis ½ : ½ Wahls 3
6 David ½ : ½ Mueller 4
7 Kveinys 1 : 0 Heinemann 5
9 Heinbuch 0 : 1 Hansen 6
10 Jackelen 1 : 0 Wilhelmi 7
11 Schmidt ½ : ½ Gustafsson 8
Castrop Rauxel 2 - 6 Lübecker SV
1 Rozentalis 0 : 1 Shirov 1
2 Van der Ster 0 : 1 Speelman 2
4 Gallagher 0 : 1 Bareev 3
5 Seul 0 : 1 DeFirmian 4
6 Bosch ½ : ½ Nunn 5
7 Hoffmann ½ : ½ Hansen 6
8 Watson 0 : 1 Hector 7
11 Brendel 1 : 0 Sieg 13
SV Werder Bremen 3 - 5 SFR Neukölln
1 Hracek 0 : 1 Movsesian 1
2 Babula ½ : ½ Bunzmann 3
3 McShane 0 : 1 Stohl 4
4 Pelletier ½ : ½ Berndt 5
5 Knaak ½ : ½ Poldauf 6
6 Schandorff ½ : ½ Hellsten 8
7 Heissler ½ : ½ Polzin 9
8 Meins ½ : ½ Thiede 12
SK Delmenhorst 4½-3½ USC Magdeburg
1 Agdestein ½ : ½ Onischuk 1
3 Hodgson 1 : 0 Slobodjan 2
5 Conquest 0 : 1 Rogozenko 4
7 Gisbrecht ½ : ½ Baklan 5
8 Lauber 0 : 1 Georgiev 6
9 Borik 1 : 0 Stolz 9
11 Breutigam 1 : 0 Markgraf 10
12 Wesseln ½ : ½ Darnstaedt 11
SK Passau 4 - 4 Solinger SG
1 Schlosser ½ : ½ Jussupow 3
2 Ribli 1 : 0 Huebner 6
3 Wells 0 : 1 Piket 7
4 Smejkal 0 : 1 Kasimdzhanov 9
5 Enders 1 : 0 Lobron 11
6 Stangl ½ : ½ Naumann 12
9 Pichler 0 : 1 Chandler 13
11 Schmidt 1 : 0 Schaefer 14
SV Tegernsee 6 - 2 SV Wattenscheid
1 Khenkin 1 : 0 Nielsen 2
2 Beim 1 : 0 Rustemov 3
3 Hertneck 1 : 0 Hall 4
4 Teske 1 : 0 Sjoedahl 6
6 Pezerovic 0 : 1 Holzke 7
7 Kachiani-Ger ½ : ½ Ellers 8
9 Klundt ½ : ½ Sandkamp 9
10 Bromberger 1 : 0 Straeter 10
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