Bad Königshofen German Champions

Bad Königshofen win German Womens' Team Championship

Here are the two strongest teams of the Womens' "Bundesliga":

Both teams had won all their matches in this season, with 18 match points after nine rounds. The decider was round ten, when the two leading teams played each other. There was only one draw, and Bad Königshofen won three games to Baden Baden's two. Here are the individual results:

With that Bad Königshofen had practically clinched the title. In the final round they beat SF Deizisau 5:1, while Baden Baden scored 4:2 in their match against SF 1891 Friedberg. Click here for all games of rounds ten and eleven. The final table showed a clear victory for SC 1957 Bad Königshofen, in match and board points:

• All results and cross tables here

1.b3? Our friend IM Tania Sachdev, who kindly sent us her annotations of one
of the key games of round ten, was completely unprepared for this opening.

IM Evi Moser from Austria

The winners celebrate: SC 1957 Bad Königshofen

The whole team in uniform: René Gabel, Julia Gromova, Anastasia Savina, Elisabeth Pähtz,
Tania Sachdev, Marie Sebag, Lilith Mkrtchian, Olga Girya, Valentina Gunina, Jürgen Müller

Tania's new DVD

Last August Tania Sachdev paid us a visit in Hamburg, to get to know our company and staff, and to record her first ChessBase DVD. She felt a bit insecure about the recording, since she had never done anything like it before. And we too have occasionally encountered strong players who simply freeze in front of the camera in our recording studio.

Tania, it turned out, was not the "butterfly" some had expected, but a highly intelligent and talented young lady who is a "natural" in front of the camera. It did take her a number of minutes to master our technical equipment, but then she started to record and store the segments independently, producing almost six hours of material in three days spent at the office.

One important factor was that Tania clearly enjoyed what she was doing. Her first DVD is aimed at amateurs – between 1000 and 2150 approximately – and is intended to teach you how to improve your game. This involves general strategic principles, tactical alertness, long-range planning – all elements she illustrates mainly with examples from her own games. We predict that people are going to love this DVD, which is now available and can be ordered in the ChessBase shop.

Improve your chess with Tania Sachdev

Even less experienced chess players have learnt how to develop their pieces in the opening, or even know certain opening variations by heart. But when the middlegame starts, they don’t know how to judge positions and develop their play – and their chess stagnates.

On this DVD, well-known Indian IM and WGM Tania Sachdev shows you how to evaluate certain positions and then find the right concepts and plans on the basis of her own games. Tania explains her own thoughts and recounts how she arrived at successful decisions and, as a result, played good moves. These illustrative and instructive examples explain a lot of the basic elements of middlegame play, such as pawn structures, piece play and making the right exchanges. The games cover a broad spectrum of themes and are aimed at those looking to generally improve their middlegame play. At the end you can test your progress and understanding with an interactive quiz.

Video running time: 4 hours 50 min. Price: €27.90
€23.45 without VAT (for customers outside the EU);
$32.13 (without VAT)

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