11/29/2019 – Last weekend the new season of the German League began with team matches in Bremen, Deizisau, Augsburg and Speyer-Schwegenheim. In the top match, Bremen Werder met Solingen. Perennial favourites OSG Baden-Baden played their season openers against Berlin and Dresden, winning both matches easily. Results, games and video. | Photo: Grenke Chess YouTube
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German league 2019/20 season
The chess Bundesliga, one of the jewels in German chess, began its season last weekend with matches in four cities. The German Women's League kicked off already in mid-September.
Shortly before the start of last season, the DJK Aufwärts Aachen withdrew from the league, leaving the 2018/19 season with only 15 teams. OSG Baden Baden won their 13th title ahead of Hockenheim and Solingen. Dusseldorf, Hofheim and Zugzwang Munich were relegated.
This year four teams have moved up from the second league: Aachen SV, Bayern München, SV Lingen and Speyer-Schwegenheim. And since no clubs have withdrawn at short notice, so the season will be played again with a full complement of 16 teams.
The newcomers from Aachen enter with a pure amateur team and the weakest average rating by some margin.
The Bavarians from Munich are of course "old acquaintances". The past multiple-German Champion team has, in recent years always struggled against relegation, narrowly avoiding that fate thanks to another team's bowing out after the season. This tine around Bayern have significantly strengthened their squad. The ambitious Niclas Huschenbeth has moved from the Elbe to the Isar (rivers of Hamburg and Munich for those not familiar with German geography) and man's board one. Huschenbeth is always good for a surprise and can also be dangerous for the any top player. With Sebastian Bogner and Miguel Santoz, there are two more new players with strong prospects.
An interesting newcomer to the league is SV Lingen. With Maxim Matlakov (2715), the team has a very strong first board and is also more than well staffed on the remaining boards. They should have to trouble staying in the premier league.
Speyer-Schwegenheim was safely amonst the field of the first league in the prior season, but will probably have to fight against relegation this year.
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The front runner's for the title is of course OSG Baden-Baden. With an average rating of 2752 on the first eight boards, the champions still have a clear edge over the competition. However, Hockenheim is also above the 2700 mark at 2715. Hockenheim has strengthened its team with the addition of Ian Nepomniachtchi and Vidit Gujrathi. Solingen and Viernheim also present serious hurdles for the two top teams.
The 2019/20 season is scheduled to culminate once again with the magnificent central final round, brining all teams together in Berlin next Spring. For now, we'll focus on the results of Round 2.
Viernheim against Hockenheim battled at almost an even level, judging by ratings. Ultimately, the matter was decided on board 8, the only GM vs IM clash with a 200+ Elo edge to Hockenheim. There David Baramidze had to work hard before he could finally convert a passed pawn in the rook endgame.
The other clash in Speyer was the duel of two up-and-comers, but the advantage was with the home team and Speyer scored a safe victory. Top board for Speyer, IM Christian Seel has begun analysing his games on his YouTube Channel, both this loss to Abasov and his draw against Nikita Vitiugov in the first round.
A mild upset of the opening weekend was of Solingen. In both of the first two rounds it was GM Vladimir Epishin, who played the longest game for the team of SV Lingen — and won both!
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The SV Werder assembled a strong team for the first home weekend of the new season and managed to reap the benefits in the form of two victories.
No surprises for OSG Baden-Baden in the chess Bundesliga thus far. Hou Yifan played for the first time since June, and won both her games. In the first round she calculated a nice combination against Jan Michael Sprenger:
White's last move was a blunder; can you find the sequence Hou used to refute it?
23...♝xb2+ 24.♔b1 (or 24.♔xb2 ♛f6+ 25.♔c1 ♝xf5) ♝xf5 25.♕xf5 ♝c3 with a winning attack.
Checkmate. That's the aim of the game. There are numerous ways to checkmate the enemy king, but there are common patterns that recur over and over again, and having these at our mental fingertips is essential for when we want to finish the game.
The Deizisau team starts the new season again among the top contenders. They certainly have the potential to be an unpleasant surprise for one or the other championship contenders later in the season. We can already look forward to these upcoming top shelf fights! But Berlin was no match for them.
It was a successful start into the new season for Hamburger SK: Even without Niclas Huschenbeth (now on board 1 at Bayern) and Jonathan Carlstedt (recently appointed coach at SV Werder Bremen) the Hanseatic heros scored two wins on the weekend.
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