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The fourth round of the Bundesliga brought several decisive results, including two in Hamburg: The host won against König Tegel 7-1. Among the players defendin Hamburger SK were two youths, Rasmus Svane and Jonas Lampert, who accounted for 1.5 points on their own, while Werder Bremen defeated SF Berlin 6.5-1.5.
Rasmus Svane
However, the most crushing victory of the round was Baden-Baden over Viernheim. The only draw Viernheim’s players managed to score was Fabien Libiszevski’s split point against Etienne Bacrot, following Magnus Carlsen’s example, he used the same Berlin defense from game eight of the world championship played less than a week before. At the very least Viernheim would not go home without scoring a single point and managed to stay out of last place.
Iranian GM Ehsan Ghaem Maghami
Robin van Kampen
The same could not be said of the Bavarians from Munich, who were unable to resist Solingen and remain empty-handed. After four rounds they are the only team without a point.
Alexander Areschenko is one of the top rated players in the competition and
will represent Ukraine in the World Team Championship
French GM Romain Edouard
Of note was the closely fought match between SV Mullheim Nord and Sportfreunde Katernberg (Katernberg Sportsfriends) decided by an impressive victory on the top board of Maxime Vachier-Lagrave over Andrei Volokitin as well as Mihail Saltaev on board eight against Christian Scholz. This allowed Mullheim to take the match 5-3.
Here is Vachier-Lagrave’s win over Volokitin:
Lars Tiede
Mladen Muse
Rk | Team | Rds | + | = | - | MP | BP |
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1 | OSG Baden-Baden | 4 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 8 | 27 |
2 | Hamburger SK | 4 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 7 | 20.5 |
3 | SV Mülheim Nord | 4 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 7 | 20 |
4 | SC Eppingen | 4 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 7 | 20 |
5 | Werder Bremen | 4 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 6 | 19 |
6 | SV 1930 Hockenheim | 4 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 5 | 20 |
7 | SG Solingen | 4 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 5 | 16.5 |
8 | SV Wattenscheid 1930 | 4 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 4 | 15 |
9 | SK Turm Emsdetten | 4 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 4 | 15 |
10 | SV Griesheim | 4 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 14 |
11 | SF Berlin 1903 | 4 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 13.5 |
12 | SG Trier | 4 | 1 | 0 | 3 | 2 | 15 |
13 | SF Katernberg | 4 | 0 | 1 | 3 | 1 | 12.5 |
14 | SK König Tegel | 4 | 0 | 1 | 3 | 1 | 10 |
15 | SC Viernheim | 4 | 0 | 1 | 3 | 1 | 8 |
16 | FC Bayern München | 4 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 0 | 10 |
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