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The SG Speyer-Schwegenheim is one of the teams fighting against relegation and losing 2-6 against Bremen did not improve the situation.
| 4 | Meskovs, Nikita | 0 | : | 1 | Areshchenko, Alexander | 1 |
| 5 | Horvath, Adam | 0 | : | 1 | McShane, Luke J | 4 |
| 6 | Nemeth, Miklos | 0 | : | 1 | Efimenko, Zahar | 5 |
| 7 | Shytaj, Luca, Dr. | 0 | : | 1 | Hracek, Zbynek | 7 |
| 8 | Yankelevich, Lev | 0 | : | 1 | Spoelman, Wouter | 9 |
| 9 | Ruck, Robert | 1 | : | 0 | Werle, Jan | 11 |
| 10 | Kovacs, Gabor | ½ | : | ½ | Markgraf, Rolf-Alexander | 12 |
| 12 | Farmani Anosheh, Armin | ½ | : | ½ | Grigorian, Spartak | 18 |
At the start of the season the OSG Baden-Baden was clear favourite. But in round 10 they stumbled and lost their match against Solingen. After ten rounds Solingen was suddenly two points ahead. Reason enough for Baden-Baden to play rounds 11 and 12 with a really strong team: not one of the eight players had less than 2700 Elo-points. This was too much for Mülheim.
| 3 | Vachier-Lagrave, Maxime | 1 | : | 0 | Navara, David | 1 |
| 4 | Anand, Viswanathan | 1 | : | 0 | Levin, Felix | 6 |
| 5 | Svidler, Peter | 1 | : | 0 | Feygin, Michael | 7 |
| 6 | Wojtaszek, Radoslaw | 1 | : | 0 | Zelbel, Patrick | 8 |
| 7 | Adams, Michael | ½ | : | ½ | Hausrath, Daniel | 9 |
| 8 | Vallejo Pons, Francisco | 1 | : | 0 | Dinstuhl, Volkmar, Dr. | 13 |
| 9 | Bacrot, Etienne | 1 | : | 0 | Rezasade, Amir | 15 |
| 10 | Naiditsch, Arkadij | 1 | : | 0 | Wagner, Leopold Franziskus | 18 |
But Baden-Baden's clear win did not help that much because Solingen also scored a clear 6-2 win against Hofheim.
| 1 | Volokitin, Andrei | ½ | : | ½ | Van Wely, Loek | 5 |
| 2 | Schroeder, Jan-Christian | ½ | : | ½ | Van Kampen, Robin | 7 |
| 3 | Savchenko, Stanislav | 0 | : | 1 | Bok, Benjamin | 8 |
| 5 | Ginsburg, Gennadi | 0 | : | 1 | Smeets, Jan | 9 |
| 9 | Margolin, Boris | 0 | : | 1 | Predojevic, Borki | 11 |
| 12 | Weber, Ulrich | 0 | : | 1 | Andersen, Mads | 12 |
| 14 | Armbruster, Alexander | 0 | : | 1 | Nikolic, Predrag | 13 |
| 15 | Burkart, Patrick | 1 | : | 0 | Naumann, Alexander | 16 |
Hockenheim also scored a clear win - against Aachen, though Baadur Jobava surprisingly lost against Jorden van Foreest on board one.
| 2 | Jobava, Baadur | 0 | : | 1 | van Foreest, Jorden | 4 |
| 4 | Ponomariov, Ruslan | ½ | : | ½ | Parligras, Mircea Emilian | 6 |
| 5 | Howell, David W L | 1 | : | 0 | Handke, Florian, Dr. | 9 |
| 7 | Moiseenko, Alexander | 1 | : | 0 | Swinkels, Robin | 13 |
| 9 | Wagner, Dennis | 1 | : | 0 | Hoffmann, Michael | 14 |
| 10 | Saric, Ivan | 1 | : | 0 | Braun, Christian | 15 |
| 11 | Buhmann, Rainer | ½ | : | ½ | Santos Ruiz, Miguel | 16 |
| 13 | Banusz, Tamas | ½ | : | ½ | Donchenko, Alexander | 17 |
Since the inception of the German League more than 20 years ago the team from Hamburg has always played in it. But this year they fight a difficult fight against relegation. The narrow defeat against Schwäbisch Hall did not help.
| 2 | Grandelius, Nils | ½ | : | ½ | Jakovenko, Dmitry | 4 |
| 3 | Svane, Rasmus | 0 | : | 1 | Laznicka, Viktor | 6 |
| 5 | Miton, Kamil | ½ | : | ½ | Gharamian, Tigran | 7 |
| 8 | Ernst, Sipke | ½ | : | ½ | Postny, Evgeny | 9 |
| 9 | Kollars, Dmitrij | 0 | : | 1 | Le Roux, Jean-Pierre | 11 |
| 10 | Lampert, Jonas | ½ | : | ½ | Womacka, Mathias | 13 |
| 15 | Sebastian, Dirk | 1 | : | 0 | Raykhman, Alexander | 14 |
| 16 | Colpe, Malte | ½ | : | ½ | Zpevak, Pavel | 16 |
Norderstedt had a very rough season this year, managing to score only one team-point from their first ten matches. Deizisau also proved to be too strong.
| 2 | Trent, Lawrence | 0 | : | 1 | Bluebaum, Matthias | 3 |
| 3 | Ostrovskiy, Andrey | ½ | : | ½ | Meier, Georg | 4 |
| 4 | Kopylov, Michael | 0 | : | 1 | Krasenkow, Michal | 5 |
| 5 | Krause, Benedict | 0 | : | 1 | Heimann, Andreas | 8 |
| 6 | Parvanyan, Ashot | ½ | : | ½ | Kozul, Zdenko | 9 |
| 8 | Powierski, Emil | 0 | : | 1 | Graf, Alexander | 10 |
| 10 | Polischuk, Viktor | ½ | : | ½ | Keymer, Vincent | 11 |
| 12 | Kahlert, Thomas | 0 | : | 1 | Dautov, Rustem | 12 |
Bavaria Munich dominates Germany's soccer league but for the chess team things are less rosy - it fights against relegation. However, Dresden was too strong.
| 1 | Dragnev, Valentin | 0 | : | 1 | Almasi, Zoltan | 2 |
| 2 | Studer, Noel | ½ | : | ½ | Nisipeanu, Liviu-Dieter | 3 |
| 7 | Lindgren, Philip | ½ | : | ½ | Gajewski, Grzegorz | 4 |
| 8 | Schneider, Stefan | ½ | : | ½ | Bartel, Mateusz | 5 |
| 11 | Ribli, Zoltan | ½ | : | ½ | Vogel, Roven | 9 |
| 14 | Meister, Peter | ½ | : | ½ | Moehn, Hans | 13 |
| 15 | Rafiee, Makan | 0 | : | 1 | Loxine, Jakov | 15 |
| 16 | Unzicker, Ferdinand, Dr. | ½ | : | ½ | Hoffmann, Paul | 16 |
The MSA Zugzwang is the second team from Munich in the league and also faces relegation - as does the team of Schachfreunde Berlin. Therefore, "Zugzwang's" win against Berlin was very valuable.
| 1 | Mons, Leon | 1 | : | 0 | Piorun, Kacper | 1 |
| 2 | Kindermann, Stefan | 1 | : | 0 | Mista, Aleksander | 4 |
| 4 | Hertneck, Gerald | 0 | : | 1 | Tomczak, Jacek | 5 |
| 5 | Zysk, Robert | ½ | : | ½ | Schneider, Ilja | 7 |
| 6 | Hoffmeyer, Falk | ½ | : | ½ | Jakubowski, Krzysztof | 8 |
| 7 | Schramm, Christian | ½ | : | ½ | Schreiner, Peter | 10 |
| 8 | Gerigk, Erasmus | ½ | : | ½ | Baldauf, Marco | 11 |
| 9 | Eichler, Christoph | 1 | : | 0 | Lauber, Arnd | 15 |
| 1. | SG Solingen | 11 | 21 | 63 | 277 |
| 2. | OSG Baden Baden | 11 | 19 | 62 | 269½ |
| 3. | SV Werder Bremen | 11 | 18 | 57½ | 272½ |
| 4. | SV Hockenheim | 11 | 16 | 56 | 231 |
| 5. | SF Deizisau | 11 | 14 | 52½ | 238½ |
| 6. | SK Schwäbisch Hall | 11 | 14 | 49½ | 234½ |
| 7. | USV Dresden | 11 | 13 | 44 | 214 |
| 8. | DJK Aachen | 11 | 12 | 47½ | 206½ |
| 9. | Schachfreunde Berlin | 11 | 10 | 41½ | 183 |
| 10. | SV Mülheim Nord | 11 | 8 | 38½ | 185 |
| 11. | SV Hofheim | 11 | 7 | 35 | 149 |
| 12. | Speyer-Schwegenheim | 11 | 7 | 33 | 159½ |
| 13. | Hamburger SK | 11 | 6 | 40½ | 165½ |
| 14. | MSA Zugzwang | 11 | 6 | 31½ | 143½ |
| 15. | FC Bayern München | 11 | 4 | 32 | 143½ |
| 16. | SK Norderstedt | 11 | 1 | 20 | 95½ |
Round 12 must have been a relief for Baden-Baden. They had no trouble winning against the strong team of Bremen while Solingen stumbled against Hockenheim. Now, Baden-Baden and Solingen share first place again and Baden-Baden has good chances again to win another title.
| 4 | Ragger, Markus | ½ | : | ½ | Jobava, Baadur | 2 |
| 5 | Van Wely, Loek | ½ | : | ½ | Ponomariov, Ruslan | 4 |
| 7 | Van Kampen, Robin | ½ | : | ½ | Howell, David W L | 5 |
| 8 | Bok, Benjamin | ½ | : | ½ | Moiseenko, Alexander | 7 |
| 9 | Smeets, Jan | 0 | : | 1 | Wagner, Dennis | 9 |
| 11 | Predojevic, Borki | 0 | : | 1 | Saric, Ivan | 10 |
| 12 | Andersen, Mads | ½ | : | ½ | Buhmann, Rainer | 11 |
| 13 | Nikolic, Predrag | ½ | : | ½ | Banusz, Tamas | 13 |
| 1 | Areshchenko, Alexander | ½ | : | ½ | Vachier-Lagrave, Maxime | 3 |
| 4 | McShane, Luke J | ½ | : | ½ | Anand, Viswanathan | 4 |
| 5 | Efimenko, Zahar | ½ | : | ½ | Svidler, Peter | 5 |
| 7 | Hracek, Zbynek | ½ | : | ½ | Wojtaszek, Radoslaw | 6 |
| 9 | Spoelman, Wouter | ½ | : | ½ | Adams, Michael | 7 |
| 11 | Werle, Jan | 0 | : | 1 | Vallejo Pons, Francisco | 8 |
| 12 | Markgraf, Rolf-Alexander | 0 | : | 1 | Bacrot, Etienne | 9 |
| 18 | Grigorian, Spartak | 0 | : | 1 | Naiditsch, Arkadij | 10 |
Nominally, Baden-Baden was clear favourite and this showed on the lower boards where Baden-Baden scored. Naiditisch won a fine attacking game.
On this DVD, Grandmaster and worldrenowned commentator Maurice Ashley reviews some of the most interesting patterns with examples meant to educate and entertain.
Should Baden-Baden and Solingen still share the lead after 15 rounds they would have to play a tie-break. But there are still three rounds to play. Solingen plays against Aachen and the strong teams Deizisau and Schwäbisch Hall and might easily lose another one or two team-points. However, Baden-Baden still has to face Hockenheim - and might stumble again.
At the bottom of the table things remain tense: five teams fight against relegation.
| 1 | Piorun, Kacper | ½ | : | ½ | Dragnev, Valentin | 1 |
| 4 | Mista, Aleksander | 0 | : | 1 | Studer, Noel | 2 |
| 5 | Tomczak, Jacek | 1 | : | 0 | Lindgren, Philip | 7 |
| 7 | Schneider, Ilja | 1 | : | 0 | Schneider, Stefan | 8 |
| 8 | Jakubowski, Krzysztof | 0 | : | 1 | Vidonyak, Roman | 9 |
| 10 | Schreiner, Peter | ½ | : | ½ | Ribli, Zoltan | 11 |
| 12 | Abel, Dennes | ½ | : | ½ | Rafiee, Makan | 15 |
| 14 | Schmidek, Emil | 1 | : | 0 | Unzicker, Ferdinand, Dr. | 16 |
| 2 | Almasi, Zoltan | ½ | : | ½ | Mons, Leon | 1 |
| 3 | Nisipeanu, Liviu-Dieter | ½ | : | ½ | Kindermann, Stefan | 2 |
| 4 | Gajewski, Grzegorz | 1 | : | 0 | Hertneck, Gerald | 4 |
| 5 | Bartel, Mateusz | 1 | : | 0 | Zysk, Robert | 5 |
| 8 | Paehtz, Elisabeth | ½ | : | ½ | Hoffmeyer, Falk | 6 |
| 9 | Vogel, Roven | 1 | : | 0 | Schramm, Christian | 7 |
| 13 | Moehn, Hans | 1 | : | 0 | Gerigk, Erasmus | 8 |
| 15 | Loxine, Jakov | ½ | : | ½ | Eichler, Christoph | 9 |
| 3 | Bluebaum, Matthias | ½ | : | ½ | Grandelius, Nils | 2 |
| 4 | Meier, Georg | 1 | : | 0 | Svane, Rasmus | 3 |
| 5 | Krasenkow, Michal | ½ | : | ½ | Miton, Kamil | 5 |
| 8 | Heimann, Andreas | ½ | : | ½ | Ernst, Sipke | 8 |
| 9 | Kozul, Zdenko | ½ | : | ½ | Kollars, Dmitrij | 9 |
| 10 | Graf, Alexander | ½ | : | ½ | Lampert, Jonas | 10 |
| 11 | Keymer, Vincent | ½ | : | ½ | Heinemann, Thies | 12 |
| 12 | Dautov, Rustem | ½ | : | ½ | Rogozenco, Dorian | 13 |
| 4 | Jakovenko, Dmitry | 1 | : | 0 | Trent, Lawrence | 2 |
| 6 | Laznicka, Viktor | 1 | : | 0 | Ostrovskiy, Andrey | 3 |
| 7 | Gharamian, Tigran | ½ | : | ½ | Kopylov, Michael | 4 |
| 9 | Postny, Evgeny | − | : | + | Krause, Benedict | 5 |
| 11 | Le Roux, Jean-Pierre | ½ | : | ½ | Parvanyan, Ashot | 6 |
| 13 | Womacka, Mathias | 1 | : | 0 | Polischuk, Viktor | 10 |
| 14 | Raykhman, Alexander | 0 | : | 1 | Kahlert, Thomas | 12 |
| 16 | Zpevak, Pavel | ½ | : | ½ | Bohnsack, Ralf | 14 |
| 4 | van Foreest, Jorden | 1 | : | 0 | Volokitin, Andrei | 1 |
| 6 | Parligras, Mircea Emilian | 0 | : | 1 | Schroeder, Jan-Christian | 2 |
| 9 | Handke, Florian, Dr. | ½ | : | ½ | Savchenko, Stanislav | 3 |
| 13 | Swinkels, Robin | ½ | : | ½ | Ginsburg, Gennadi | 5 |
| 14 | Hoffmann, Michael | 0 | : | 1 | Lobzhanidze, Davit | 7 |
| 15 | Braun, Christian | 0 | : | 1 | Gurevich, Vladimir | 8 |
| 16 | Santos Ruiz, Miguel | ½ | : | ½ | Margolin, Boris | 9 |
| 17 | Donchenko, Alexander | 1 | : | 0 | Zude, Arno | 11 |
| 1 | Navara, David | 1 | : | 0 | Oleksiyenko, Mykhaylo | 1 |
| 2 | Tregubov, Pavel V. | ½ | : | ½ | Meskovs, Nikita | 4 |
| 6 | Levin, Felix | 0 | : | 1 | Horvath, Adam | 5 |
| 7 | Feygin, Michael | ½ | : | ½ | Nemeth, Miklos | 6 |
| 8 | Zelbel, Patrick | ½ | : | ½ | Shytaj, Luca, Dr. | 7 |
| 9 | Hausrath, Daniel | ½ | : | ½ | Yankelevich, Lev | 8 |
| 13 | Dinstuhl, Volkmar, Dr. | ½ | : | ½ | Ruck, Robert | 9 |
| 15 | Rezasade, Amir | ½ | : | ½ | Kovacs, Gabor | 10 |
| 1. | OSG Baden Baden | 12 | 21 | 67½ |
| 2. | SG Solingen | 12 | 21 | 66 |
| 3. | SV Hockenheim | 12 | 18 | 61 |
| 4. | SV Werder Bremen | 12 | 18 | 60 |
| 5. | SF Deizisau | 12 | 16 | 57 |
| 6. | SK Schwäbisch Hall | 12 | 16 | 54 |
| 7. | USV Dresden | 12 | 15 | 50 |
| 8. | DJK Aachen | 12 | 12 | 51 |
| 9. | Schachfreunde Berlin | 12 | 12 | 46 |
| 10. | SV Mülheim Nord | 12 | 9 | 42½ |
| 11. | SV Hofheim | 12 | 9 | 39½ |
| 12. | Speyer-Schwegenheim | 12 | 8 | 37 |
| 13. | Hamburger SK | 12 | 6 | 44 |
| 14. | MSA Zugzwang | 12 | 6 | 33½ |
| 15. | FC Bayern München | 12 | 4 | 35½ |
| 16. | SK Norderstedt | 12 | 1 | 23½ |
In the last three rounds the two teams from the North of Germany (Norderstedt and Hamburg) will face the two teams from Munich FC Bayern/Zugzwang München. In the past 8 team-points were often enough to finish on place 12 - but this season this will not be enough.
