German League Round 9-10: Erwin l'Ami beats Baden-Baden

by Johannes Fischer
2/26/2018 – OSG Baden-Baden has been dominating the German League for more than a decade — in the last eleven years, Baden-Baden won ten times, one time they came second. This season, the star-studded team is again favourite to win — but in round ten they stumbled against Solingen. The match winner for Solingen was ChessBase author Erwin l'Ami. | Photo: Pascal Simon
In the Dutch Stonewall Black from the very first move fights for the initiative. Let Erwin l'Ami take you on a fascinating journey to the depth and attractions of this unique opening. At the end you will be rewarded with a new repertoire against 1.d4!

Erwin for the win

With an average Elo of 2766 on the first eight boards, the OSG Baden-Baden is nominally superior to all other teams, and even when some of the best players cannot play, Baden-Baden is still amazingly strong. But, after winning the first seven matches without too many troubles, the favourites stumbled in round 8 and only managed to draw against the team from Hamburg — a team that is fighting against relegation.

However, in round 9 Baden-Baden won again — though only narrowly:

DJK Aachen 3½ : 4½ OSG Baden-Baden

1 Ivanchuk, Vassily ½ : ½ Vachier-Lagrave, Maxime 3
4 van Foreest, Jorden ½ : ½ Anand, Viswanathan 4
5 Lupulescu, Constantin 0 : 1 Wojtaszek, Radoslaw 6
6 Parligras, Mircea Emilian ½ : ½ Adams, Michael 7
7 Bindrich, Falko ½ : ½ Vallejo Pons, Francisco 8
9 Handke, Florian, Dr. ½ : ½ Bacrot, Etienne 9
11 Zaragatski, Ilja 0 : 1 Naiditsch, Arkadij 10
17 Donchenko, Alexander 1 : 0 Movsesian, Sergei 11

Maxime Vachier-Lagrave vs Vassily Ivanchuk

Maxime Vachier-Lagrave vs Vassily Ivanchuk | Photo: Georgios Souleidis

The biggest rival of Baden-Baden is the team from Solingen. After nine rounds these two teams led the table, in round 10 they met for their direct encounter. Baden-Baden was the favourite to win this crucial match but Solingen seemed to be in better shape: round 9 brought them a clear 7½ : ½ win.

SG Solingen 7½ : ½ SG Speyer-Schwegenheim 

2 Harikrishna, Pentala ½ : ½ Oleksiyenko, Mykhaylo 1
3 Rapport, Richard 1 : 0 Shytaj, Luca, Dr. 7
4 Ragger, Markus 1 : 0 Yankelevich, Lev 8
5 Van Wely, Loek 1 : 0 Kovacs, Gabor 10
6 Ganguly, Surya Shekhar 1 : 0 Hoolt, Sarah 11
7 Van Kampen, Robin 1 : 0 Commercon, Simon 13
10 L'Ami, Erwin 1 : 0 Prestel, Oliver 16
11 Predojevic, Borki 1 : 0 Mager, Denis 17

The other matches in round 9 did not bring great surprises — the favourites won more or less clearly and two of the weaker ones, which played against each other, drew.

SV Mülheim Nord 6 : 2 MSA Zugzwang 

1 Navara, David ½ : ½ Mons, Leon 1
2 Tregubov, Pavel V. ½ : ½ Kindermann, Stefan 2
3 Fridman, Daniel ½ : ½ Bromberger, Stefan 3
4 Landa, Konstantin 1 : 0 Hertneck, Gerald 4
7 Feygin, Michael 1 : 0 Zysk, Robert 5
8 Zelbel, Patrick 1 : 0 Schramm, Christian 7
9 Hausrath, Daniel 1 : 0 Eichler, Christoph 9
14 Zwirs, Nico ½ : ½ Lammers, Markus 10

SV Werder Bremen 4½ : 3½ Bayern München 

In the German soccer league, a win of Werder Bremen against Bavaria Munich would be a surprise. In chess, it isn't.

3 Fressinet, Laurent ½ : ½ Bischoff, Klaus 3
5 Efimenko, Zahar ½ : ½ Johansson, Linus 5
7 Hracek, Zbynek 1 : 0 Fedorovsky, Michael 6
8 Nyback, Tomi 1 : 0 Lindgren, Philip 7
9 Spoelman, Wouter 0 : 1 Schneider, Stefan 8
10 Babula, Vlastimil 1 : 0 Schenk, Andreas 10
11 Werle, Jan 0 : 1 Belezky, Alexander 12
12 Markgraf, Rolf-Alexander ½ : ½ Rafiee, Makan 15

SF Deizisau 5½ : 2½ USV Dresden 

Deizisau is the newcomer in this year's season, but they have an experienced and strong team and did not have too much trouble against Dresden.

2 Leko, Peter ½ : ½ Almasi, Zoltan 2
4 Meier, Georg ½ : ½ Nisipeanu, Liviu-Dieter 3
5 Krasenkow, Michal 1 : 0 Bartel, Mateusz 5
8 Heimann, Andreas ½ : ½ Paehtz, Elisabeth 8
9 Kozul, Zdenko 1 : 0 Vogel, Roven 9
10 Graf, Alexander 0 : 1 Neef, Maximilian 10
11 Keymer, Vincent 1 : 0 Maiwald, Jens-Uwe 11
12 Dautov, Rustem 1 : 0 Moehn, Hans 13

SK Schwäbisch Hall 6 : 2 Schachfreunde Berlin 

4 Jakovenko, Dmitry 1 : 0 Kraemer, Martin 6
6 Laznicka, Viktor 1 : 0 Sprenger, Jan Michael, Dr. 9
7 Gharamian, Tigran ½ : ½ Schreiner, Peter 10
10 Michalik, Peter 1 : 0 Baldauf, Marco 11
11 Le Roux, Jean-Pierre ½ : ½ Abel, Dennes 12
12 Wirig, Anthony 1 : 0 Seyb, Alexander 13
15 Zeller, Frank ½ : ½ Lauber, Arnd 15
16 Zpevak, Pavel ½ : ½ Thiede, Lars 16

SV Hockenheim 4½ : 3½ Hamburger SK 

4 Ponomariov, Ruslan ½ : ½ Duda, Jan-Krzysztof 1
8 Balogh, Csaba ½ : ½ Miton, Kamil 5
9 Wagner, Dennis 0 : 1 Kempinski, Robert 6
10 Saric, Ivan 1 : 0 Ernst, Sipke 8
11 Buhmann, Rainer ½ : ½ Kollars, Dmitrij 9
12 Baramidze, David 1 : 0 Ftacnik, Lubomir 11
13 Banusz, Tamas ½ : ½ Heinemann, Thies 12
14 Braun, Arik ½ : ½ Carlstedt, Jonathan 14

SV Hofheim 4 : 4 SK Norderstedt 

1 Volokitin, Andrei ½ : ½ Olszewski, Michal 1
3 Savchenko, Stanislav ½ : ½ Ostrovskiy, Andrey 3
5 Ginsburg, Gennadi 0 : 1 Kopylov, Michael 4
6 Perske, Thore ½ : ½ Krause, Benedict 5
7 Lobzhanidze, Davit ½ : ½ Parvanyan, Ashot 6
8 Gurevich, Vladimir ½ : ½ Powierski, Emil 8
9 Margolin, Boris 1 : 0 Meyer, Falko 9
11 Zude, Arno ½ : ½ Polischuk, Viktor 10

Games of round nine

 
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1.e4 c6 2.Nc3 d5 3.Nf3 Bg4 4.h3 Bxf3 5.Qxf3 e6 6.d4 dxe4 7.Qxe4 Nf6 8.Qd3 Na6 9.a3 Qb6 10.Be2 Be7 11.0-0 0-0 12.Rd1 Rfd8 13.b4 Nc7 14.Na4 Qb5 15.Nc5 Qxd3 16.Rxd3 b6 17.Nb3 Rac8 18.Bb2 Nfd5 19.g3 Bf6 20.c4 Ne7 21.Rad1 Ne8 22.Bf3 Nd6 23.Nd2 b5 24.c5 Ndf5 25.Nb3 Nd5 26.Bc1 Rd7 27.Bd2 g5 28.Be4 h6 29.h4 Kg7 30.hxg5 hxg5 31.Kg2 Rh8 32.Ra1 g4 33.a4 a6 34.axb5 axb5 35.Ra6 Rc8 36.f3 gxf3+ 37.Kxf3 Nde7 38.Bc3 Nd5 39.Bd2 ½–½
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WhiteEloWBlackEloBResYearECOEventRnd
Vachier-Lagrave,M2794Ivanchuk,V2732½–½2018B11Bundesliga 2017-189.1
Van Foreest,J2609Anand,V2783½–½2018C84Bundesliga 2017-189.2
Wojtaszek,R2737Lupulescu,C26201–02018D31Bundesliga 2017-189.3
Parligras,M2616Adams,M2727½–½2018D42Bundesliga 2017-189.4
Vallejo Pons,F2714Bindrich,F2598½–½2018C42Bundesliga 2017-189.5
Handke,F2525Bacrot,E2723½–½2018C67Bundesliga 2017-189.6
Naiditsch,A2702Zaragatski,I24951–02018C04Bundesliga 2017-189.7
Donchenko,A2559Movsesian,S26711–02018E01Bundesliga 2017-189.8
Oleksiyenko,M2615Harikrishna,P2733½–½2018A28Bundesliga 2017-189.1
Rapport,R2686Shytaj,L24651–02018A46Bundesliga 2017-189.2
Yankelevich,L2442Ragger,M26590–12018E04Bundesliga 2017-189.3
Van Wely,L2663Kovacs,G24631–02018E06Bundesliga 2017-189.4
Hoolt,S2423Ganguly,S26570–12018C02Bundesliga 2017-189.5
Van Kampen,R2646Commercon,S22551–02018C42Bundesliga 2017-189.6
Prestel,O2131L'Ami,E26110–12018E91Bundesliga 2017-189.7
Predojevic,B2621Mager,D22831–02018B91Bundesliga 2017-189.8
Kraemer,M2575Jakovenko,D27100–12018B47Bundesliga 2017-189.1
Laznicka,V2654Sprenger,J25131–02018A20Bundesliga 2017-189.2
Schreiner,P2480Gharamian,T2626½–½2018E01Bundesliga 2017-189.3
Michalik,P2546Baldauf,M24831–02018C67Bundesliga 2017-189.4
Abel,D2458Le Roux,J2554½–½2018A15Bundesliga 2017-189.5
Wirig,A2498Seyb,A24031–02018E60Bundesliga 2017-189.6
Lauber,A2423Zeller,F2371½–½2018A61Bundesliga 2017-189.7
Zpevak,P2342Thiede,L2411½–½2018E61Bundesliga 2017-189.8
Almasi,Z2707Leko,P2679½–½2018A14Bundesliga 2017-189.1
Meier,G2655Nisipeanu,L2672½–½2018A07Bundesliga 2017-189.2
Bartel,M2613Krasenkow,M26510–12018B00Bundesliga 2017-189.3
Heimann,A2578Paehtz,E2453½–½2018D20Bundesliga 2017-189.4
Vogel,R2493Kozul,Z26070–12018E73Bundesliga 2017-189.5
Graf,A2576Neef,M24530–12018E92Bundesliga 2017-189.6
Maiwald,J2452Keymer,V24130–12018B20Bundesliga 2017-189.7
Dautov,R2596Moehn,H23681–02018E60Bundesliga 2017-189.8
Duda,J2706Ponomariov,R2687½–½2018E18Bundesliga 2017-189.1
Balogh,C2634Miton,K2605½–½2018C89Bundesliga 2017-189.2
Kempinski,R2593Wagner,D25641–02018E60Bundesliga 2017-189.3
Saric,I2662Ernst,S25481–02018C72Bundesliga 2017-189.4
Kollars,D2498Buhmann,R2564½–½2018C55Bundesliga 2017-189.5
Baramidze,D2610Ftacnik,L25461–02018B81Bundesliga 2017-189.6
Heinemann,T2484Banusz,T2617½–½2018B31Bundesliga 2017-189.7
Braun,A2574Carlstedt,J2413½–½2018A61Bundesliga 2017-189.8
Olszewski,M2551Volokitin,A2623½–½2018E10Bundesliga 2017-189.1
Savchenko,S2477Ostrovskiy,A2444½–½2018A17Bundesliga 2017-189.2
Kopylov,M2424Ginsburg,G24431–02018E62Bundesliga 2017-189.3
Perske,T2443Krause,B2453½–½2018B49Bundesliga 2017-189.4
Parvanyan,A2374Lobzhanidze,D2432½–½2018A15Bundesliga 2017-189.5
Gurevich,V2475Powierski,E2334½–½2018B90Bundesliga 2017-189.6
Meyer,F2212Margolin,B23760–12018C01Bundesliga 2017-189.7
Zude,A2370Polischuk,V2302½–½2018B40Bundesliga 2017-189.8
Mons,L2500Navara,D2726½–½2018A06Bundesliga 2017-189.1
Tregubov,P2589Kindermann,S2502½–½2018A84Bundesliga 2017-189.2
Bromberger,S2505Fridman,D2626½–½2018D37Bundesliga 2017-189.3
Landa,K2607Hertneck,G24961–02018A05Bundesliga 2017-189.4
Zysk,R2400Feygin,M24890–12018E10Bundesliga 2017-189.5
Zelbel,P2458Schramm,C23681–02018C07Bundesliga 2017-189.6
Eichler,C2286Hausrath,D24840–12018E62Bundesliga 2017-189.7
Zwirs,N2391Lammers,M2308½–½2018D27Bundesliga 2017-189.8
Bischoff,K2510Fressinet,L2657½–½2018D45Bundesliga 2017-189.1
Efimenko,Z2636Johansson,L2468½–½2018A05Bundesliga 2017-189.2
Fedorovsky,M2478Hracek,Z26100–12018E00Bundesliga 2017-189.3
Nyback,T2572Lindgren,P23801–02018E00Bundesliga 2017-189.4
Schneider,S2390Spoelman,W25861–02018D10Bundesliga 2017-189.5
Babula,V2556Schenk,A24351–02018A15Bundesliga 2017-189.6
Belezky,A2386Werle,J25261–02018A05Bundesliga 2017-189.7
Markgraf,A2513Rafiee,M2322½–½2018C89Bundesliga 2017-189.8

Round 10

Round 10 promised more excitement. After all, the two leading teams, Solingen and Baden-Baden faced each other.

Baden-Baden brought a strong team, though Fabiano Caruana and Levon Aronian were missing — presumably because both are currently deep in preparation for the upcoming Candidates tournament. Peter Svidler was also missing — which gave rise to speculation that he might be helping to train one of the candidates. But with an Elo-average of 2726 to 2665, Baden-Baden was still the favourite in this crucial match.

Yet things did not go well. After a few games had ended relatively quickly with a draw, Baden-Baden found itself in trouble. None of their players could claim a clear advantage but Arkadij Naiditsch was on the ropes against Erwin L'Ami. 

 
E. L'Ami vs A. Naiditsch
Position after 18.Nd3

Here, things are still okay for Black: his position is passive but solid. In the later course of the game, L'Ami managed to get his queenside moving and to bring a piece to c6. 

 
E. L'Ami vs A. Naiditsch
Position after 24.Bc6

White's strategy turned out to be superior. Naiditsch failed to find an adequate defence and L'Ami's position got better and better. In the end, Erwin L'Ami was the match winner: seven games of the match were drawn, while he won against Naiditsch.

 
L'Ami-Naiditsch: Position after 34.f5
A complete triumph for White

Match winner Erwin L'Ami

Erwin L'Ami is not only an excellent player, but also an opening expert and second of Anish Giri. He shared his opening knowledge, on a couple of ChessBase DVDs.

On this DVD you will be taken on a journey through what is arguably the sharpest opening line known to men.

OSG Baden Baden 3½ : 4½ SG Solingen 

1 Maxime Vachier-Lagrave Pentala Harikrishna 0.5 : 0.5
2 Viswanathan Anand Richard Rapport 0.5 : 0.5
3 Radoslaw Wojtaszek Markus Ragger 0.5 : 0.5
4 Michael Adams Loek Van Wely 0.5 : 0.5
5 Francisco Vallejo Pons Surya Shekhar Ganguly 0.5 : 0.5
6 Etienne Bacrot Robin Van Kampen 0.5 : 0.5
7 Arkadij Naiditsch Erwin L'Ami 0 : 1
8 Sergei Movsesian Borki Predojevic 0.5 : 0.5

Anand

Anand played two games this weekend, but only scored one point (both draws) | Photo: Georgios Souleidis

After this win, Solingen now is clear first. However, the season is not over yet. There are still five rounds to play and in these five rounds, Solingen will face a couple of strong teams.

Other results

Speyer Schwegenheim 2½ : 5½ DJK Aachen 

Vassily Ivanchuk was in action for Aachen, and even lost, but his team nevertheless won easily.

1 Mykhaylo Oleksiyenko Vassily Ivanchuk 1 : 0
2 Dr. Luca Shytaj Jorden van Foreest 0.5 : 0.5
3 Lev Yankelevich Constantin Lupulescu 0 : 1
4 Gabor Kovacs Mircea Emilian Parligras 0 : 1
5 Sarah Hoolt Dr. Florian Handke 0.5 : 0.5
6 Simon Commercon Twan Burg 0 : 1
7 Oliver Prestel Michael Hoffmann 0.5 : 0.5
8 Denis Mager Christian Braun 0 : 1

SF Berlin 5 : 3 SF Deizisau 

1 Martin Kraemer Peter Leko 0.5 : 0.5
2 Dr. Jan Michael Sprenger Georg Meier 0.5 : 0.5
3 Peter Schreiner Michal Krasenkow 0.5 : 0.5
4 Marco Baldauf Andreas Heimann 0.5 : 0.5
5 Dennes Abel Zdenko Kozul 0.5 : 0.5
6 Alexander Seyb Alexander Graf 1 : 0
7 Arnd Lauber Vincent Keymer 1 : 0
8 Lars Thiede Rustem Dautov 0.5 : 0.5

USV Dresden 5½ : 2½ SK Schwäbisch Hall 

1 Zoltan Almasi Dmitry Jakovenko 0.5 : 0.5
2 Liviu-Dieter Nisipeanu Viktor Laznicka 1 : 0
3 Mateusz Bartel Tigran Gharamian 0.5 : 0.5
4 Elisabeth Paehtz Peter Michalik 0.5 : 0.5
5 Roven Vogel Jean-Pierre Le Roux 1 : 0
6 Maximilian Neef Anthony Wirig 0.5 : 0.5
7 Jens-Uwe Maiwald Frank Zeller 1 : 0
8 Hans Moehn Pavel Zpevak 0.5 : 0.5

Hamburger SK 6 : 2 SV Hofheim

1 Jan-Krzysztof Duda Andrei Volokitin 0.5 : 0.5
2 Kamil Miton Stanislav Savchenko 1 : 0
3 Robert Kempinski Gennadi Ginsburg 1 : 0
4 Sipke Ernst Thore Perske 1 : 0
5 Dmitrij Kollars Davit Lobzhanidze 0.5 : 0.5
6 Lubomir Ftacnik Vladimir Gurevich 1 : 0
7 Thies Heinemann Boris Margolin 0.5 : 0.5
8 Jonathan Carlstedt Arno Zude 0.5 : 0.5

SK Norderstedt ½ : 7½ SV Hockenheim 

1 Michal Olszewski Ruslan Ponomariov 0 : 1
2 Andrey Ostrovskiy Csaba Balogh 0 : 1
3 Michael Kopylov Dennis Wagner 0 : 1
4 Benedict Krause Ivan Saric 0.5 : 0.5
5 Ashot Parvanyan Rainer Buhmann 0 : 1
6 Emil Powierski David Baramidze 0 : 1
7 Falko Meyer Tamas Banusz 0 : 1
8 Viktor Polischuk Arik Braun 0 : 1

FC Bayern München 1 : 7 SV Mülheim Nord 

1 Klaus Bischoff David Navara 0 : 1
2 Linus Johansson Pavel V. Tregubov 0 : 1
3 Michael Fedorovsky Daniel Fridman 0.5 : 0.5
4 Philip Lindgren Konstantin Landa 0 : 1
5 Stefan Schneider Michael Feygin 0 : 1
6 Andreas Schenk Patrick Zelbel 0.5 : 0.5
7 Alexander Belezky Daniel Hausrath 0 : 1
8 Makan Rafiee Nico Zwirs 0 : 1

MSA Zugzwang München 4 : 4 SV Werder Bremen 

A mini-upset as Munich held Bremen to a 4 : 4  tie.

1 Leon Mons Laurent Fressinet 1 : 0
2 Stefan Kindermann Zahar Efimenko 0.5 : 0.5
3 Stefan Bromberger Zbynek Hracek 0 : 1
4 Gerald Hertneck Tomi Nyback 0.5 : 0.5
5 Robert Zysk Wouter Spoelman 1 : 0
6 Christian Schramm Vlastimil Babula 0.5 : 0.5
7 Christoph Eichler Jan Werle 0 : 1
8 Markus Lammers Rolf-Alexander Markgraf 0.5 : 0.5

Ganes of round ten

 
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1.e4 Nc6 2.d4 d5 3.e5 Bf5 4.c3 e6 5.Nd2 a6 6.f4 f6 7.Nh3 Qd7 8.Nf2 0-0-0 9.Bd3 Nh6 10.0-0 Na5 11.Be2 Qc6 12.Qe1 Be7 13.Nd1 Bc2 14.Rf3 fxe5 15.fxe5 Rdf8 16.Ne3 Bg6 17.Qg3 Qb6 18.a3 Nb3 19.Nxb3 Qxb3 20.Bd1 Qb5 ½–½
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WhiteEloWBlackEloBResYearECOEventRnd
Anand,V2779Rapport,R2703½–½2018B00BL 2017-1810
Harikrishna,P2745Vachier-Lagrave,M2793½–½2018A33BL 2017-1810
Navara,D2745Bischoff,K25111–02018B54BL 2017-1810
Jakovenko,D2744Almasi,Z2689½–½2018C65BL 2017-1810
Ivanchuk,V2731Oleksiyenko,M26090–12018C67BL 2017-1810
Bacrot,E2722Van Kampen,R2646½–½2018C50BL 2017-1810
Adams,M2709Van Wely,L2656½–½2018B90BL 2017-1810
Ponomariov,R2694Olszewski,M25401–02018C84BL 2017-1810
Leko,P2692Kraemer,M2580½–½2018A06BL 2017-1810
Nisipeanu,L2682Laznicka,V26581–02018B13BL 2017-1810
Ragger,M2666Wojtaszek,R2735½–½2018B91BL 2017-1810
Fressinet,L2662Mons,L25290–12018C92BL 2017-1810
Ganguly,S2650Vallejo Pons,F2718½–½2018C42BL 2017-1810
Movsesian,S2649Predojevic,B2629½–½2018C07BL 2017-1810
Krasenkow,M2642Schreiner,P2452½–½2018A04BL 2017-1810
Banusz,T2640Meyer,F22211–02018A06BL 2017-1810
Volokitin,A2639Duda,J2706½–½2018B90BL 2017-1810
Fridman,D2635Fedorovsky,M2469½–½2018E04BL 2017-1810
Lupulescu,C2626Yankelevich,L24461–02018D37BL 2017-1810
Kozul,Z2625Abel,D2469½–½2018B10BL 2017-1810
L'Ami,E2625Naiditsch,A27051–02018D52BL 2017-1810
Gharamian,T2622Bartel,M2610½–½2018C84BL 2017-1810
Miton,K2605Savchenko,S24771–02018D10BL 2017-1810
Hracek,Z2583Bromberger,S24821–02018B84BL 2017-1810
Spoelman,W2578Zysk,R24160–12018E11BL 2017-1810
Buhmann,R2564Parvanyan,A23741–02018E73BL 2017-1810
Wagner,D2564Kopylov,M24241–02018D31BL 2017-1810
Le Roux,J2555Vogel,R24370–12018B10BL 2017-1810
Ftacnik,L2546Gurevich,V24751–02018A04BL 2017-1810
Handke,F2533Hoolt,S2400½–½2018C11BL 2017-1810
Werle,J2532Eichler,C23031–02018D35BL 2017-1810
Ernst,S2530Perske,T24431–02018D10BL 2017-1810
Sprenger,J2514Meier,G2647½–½2018C07BL 2017-1810
Hausrath,D2499Belezky,A23601–02018E01BL 2017-1810
Kindermann,S2495Efimenko,Z2636½–½2018B06BL 2017-1810
Feygin,M2493Schneider,S24011–02018B19BL 2017-1810
Hertneck,G2493Nyback,T2576½–½2018A16BL 2017-1810
Baldauf,M2484Heimann,A2582½–½2018A33BL 2017-1810
Paehtz,E2464Michalik,P2548½–½2018C65BL 2017-1810
Kovacs,G2461Parligras,M26380–12018E54BL 2017-1810
Krause,B2453Saric,I2662½–½2018B09BL 2017-1810
Johansson,L2452Tregubov,P25750–12018A31BL 2017-1810
Neef,M2451Wirig,A2503½–½2018A06BL 2017-1810
Shytaj,L2448van Foreest,J2636½–½2018C65BL 2017-1810
Hoffmann,M2442Prestel,O2152½–½2018C18BL 2017-1810
Lobzhanidze,D2432Kollars,D2509½–½2018C55BL 2017-1810
Schenk,A2428Zelbel,P2441½–½2018E92BL 2017-1810
Carlstedt,J2423Zude,A2370½–½2018D37BL 2017-1810
Keymer,V2418Lauber,A24300–12018A58BL 2017-1810
Thiede,L2409Dautov,R2596½–½2018A06BL 2017-1810
Lindgren,P2405Landa,K26040–12018A13BL 2017-1810
Seyb,A2393Graf,A25851–02018C10BL 2017-1810
Zeller,F2382Maiwald,J24370–12018B07BL 2017-1810
Margolin,B2376Heinemann,T2495½–½2018B50BL 2017-1810
Schramm,C2376Babula,V2554½–½2018B85BL 2017-1810
Moehn,H2365Zpevak,P2341½–½2018A11BL 2017-1810
Rafiee,M2348Zwirs,N23780–12018B99BL 2017-1810
Powierski,E2334Baramidze,D26100–12018C84BL 2017-1810
Lammers,M2305Markgraf,A2514½–½2018A87BL 2017-1810
Lammers,M2305Markgraf,R-½–½2018A87BL 2017-1810
Polischuk,V2284Braun,A25740–12018B19BL 2017-1810
Mager,D2277Braun,C23780–12018D85BL 2017-1810
Commercon,S2257Burg,T25170–12018A45BL 2017-1810

Standings after ten rounds

Rg. Team 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16  Wtg1   Wtg2 
1 Solingen  *  4½ 4         6½ 4½ 6½   7½ 5½ 4½ 6½ 7 19 57,0
2 Baden 3½  *      5½ 4½ 5½ 5 6½       4 6½ 6½ 7 17 54,5
3 Bremen 4    *  3½ 4½ 6½ 5       6   6 4½ 4 7½ 16 51,5
4 Hockenheim     4½  *  3½   5 3½ 6 6½     4½ 3½ 6 7½ 14 50,5
5 Deizisau   2½ 3½ 4½  *      5½ 3 5 7 6½   5 3½   12 46,0
6 Aachen   3½ 1½      *    4 4½ 5   5½ 3½ 6 4 7½ 12 45,0
  Schwaebisch Hall   2½ 3 3      *  2½ 6 5½ 4½ 6½   6 5½   12 45,0
8 Dresden 1½ 3   4½ 2½ 4 5½  *      4 4½ 4     5½ 11 39,0
9 Berlin 3½ 1½   2 5 3½ 2    *    5½ 6 4½     5 10 38,5
10 Muelheim 1½     1½ 3 3 2½      *  3½   4½ 7 6 5½ 8 38,0
11 Hofheim     2   1   3½ 4 2½ 4½  *    2 4 5½ 4 7 33,0
12 Speyer ½       1½ 2½ 1½ 3½ 2      *  4½ 4 6 5 7 31,0
13 Hamburg 2½ 4 2 3½   4½   4 3½ 3½ 6 3½  *        6 37,0
14 Muenchen 3½ 1½ 3½ 4½ 3 2 2     1 4 4    *      4 29,0
15 Zugzwang 1½ 1½ 4 2 4½ 4 2½     2 2½ 2      *    4 26,5
16 Norderstedt 1 1 ½ ½   ½   2½ 3 2½ 4 3        *  1 18,5

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Johannes Fischer was born in 1963 in Hamburg and studied English and German literature in Frankfurt. He now lives as a writer and translator in Nürnberg. He is a FIDE-Master and regularly writes for KARL, a German chess magazine focusing on the links between culture and chess. On his own blog he regularly publishes notes on "Film, Literature and Chess".

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