14th and 15th round of the Schachbundesliga
On April 10th and 11th the last two rounds of the German Team Championship
(Schachbundesliga) season 2009/10 will take place. The venues Baden-Baden and
Bremen are the most likely places where the winners of the championship will
be decided. In Bremen Werder Bremen faces SG Solingen, and in Baden-Baden it
is OSG Baden-Baden vs SV Mülheim Nord. These are the four best teams of
the league so anything can happen.
Current standings
If two teams have the same number of team points at the end of the season there
will be a tiebreak at the end of April. The board points are not relevant as
second criteria for the title. Here the lineups in Baden-Baden.
14th round: Saturday, 10th of April 2010, 2 p.m.
| |
OSG Baden-Baden |
|
|
SV Mülheim Nord |
|
| 1 |
Alexei Shirov |
2730 |
|
Maxime Vachier-Lagrave |
2718 |
| 2 |
Etienne Bacrot |
2709 |
|
Pavel Tregubov |
2649 |
| 3 |
Michael Adams |
2682 |
|
Daniel Fridman |
2661 |
| 4 |
Arkadij Naiditsch |
2685 |
|
Vitali Golod |
2602 |
| 5 |
Francisco Vallejo Pons |
2696 |
|
Alexander Berelowitsch |
2551 |
| 6 |
Liviu-Dieter Nisipeanu |
2664 |
|
Felix Levin |
2481 |
| 7 |
Jan Gustafsson |
2622 |
|
Daniel Hausrath |
2528 |
| 8 |
Rustem Dautov |
2596 |
|
Gerhard Schebler |
2486 |
15th round: Sunday, 11th of April 2010, 10 a.m.
| |
SF Katernberg |
|
|
OSG Baden-Baden |
|
| 1 |
Vladimir Chuchelov |
2598 |
|
Alexei Shirov |
2730 |
| 2 |
Christian Seel |
2493 |
|
Etienne Bacrot |
2709 |
| 3 |
Klaus Bischoff |
2561 |
|
Michael Adams |
2682 |
| 4 |
Ilja Zaragatski |
2475 |
|
Arkadij Naiditsch |
2685 |
| 5 |
Sebastian Siebrecht |
2456 |
|
Francisco Vallejo Pons |
2696 |
| 6 |
Christian Scholz |
2373 |
|
Liviu-Dieter Nisipeanu |
2664 |
| 7 |
Sarah Hoolt |
2225 |
|
Jan Gustafsson |
2622 |
| 8 |
Jens Kotainy |
2243 |
|
Rustem Dautov |
2596 |
Impressions from the previous round
By Frederic Friedel
On March 21 we visited the city of Emsdetten, where the 13th round of the Bundesliga
was being played. We drew in the atmosphere of a weekend team championship and
saw some exciting action in the process. Here are the matches we followed:
B OSG Baden-Baden vs SV Wattenscheid
| 1 |
GM |
Shirov, Alexei |
2730 |
– |
GM |
Najer, Evgeniy |
2681 |
1:0 |
| 2 |
GM |
Bacrot, Etienne |
2709 |
– |
GM |
Bartel, Mateusz |
2609 |
1:0 |
| 3 |
GM |
Naiditsch, Arkadij |
2685 |
– |
GM |
Czarnota, Pawel |
2537 |
1:0 |
| 4 |
GM |
Vallejo, Francisco |
2696 |
– |
GM |
Johannessen, Leif |
2532 |
1:0 |
| 5 |
GM |
Nielsen, Peter-Heine |
2687 |
– |
GM |
Appel, Ralf |
2551 |
½:½ |
| 6 |
GM |
Nisipeanu, Liviu-Dieter |
2664 |
– |
GM |
Handke, Florian |
2513 |
½:½ |
| 7 |
GM |
Gustafsson, Jan |
2622 |
– |
IM |
Souleidis, Georgios |
2429 |
½:½ |
| 8 |
GM |
Schlosser, Philipp |
2555 |
– |
FM |
Straeter, Timo |
2347 |
1:0 |
Heidelberg-Handschuhsheim vs SK Turm Emsdetten
| 1 |
GM |
Ikonnikov, Viacheslav |
2558 |
– |
GM |
Mchedlishvili, Mikheil |
2613 |
0:1 |
| 2 |
GM |
Ginsburg, Gennadi |
2537 |
– |
GM |
Giri, Anish |
2552 |
0:1 |
| 3 |
GM |
Gurevic, Vladimir |
2470 |
– |
GM |
Spoelman, Wouter |
2554 |
0:1 |
| 4 |
IM |
Chernov, Vadim |
2433 |
– |
IM |
Feygin, Michael |
2546 |
½:½ |
| 5 |
FM |
Gerigk, Erasmus |
2335 |
– |
IM |
Janssen, Ruud |
2520 |
½:½ |
| 6 |
FM |
Schwalfenberg, Joerg |
2317 |
– |
IM |
Brandenburg, Daan |
2480 |
0:1 |
| 7 |
IM |
Maier, Christian |
2350 |
– |
- |
Fiebig, Thomas |
2416 |
½:½ |
| 8 |
FM |
Vatter, Hans-Joachim |
2321 |
– |
IM |
Pruijssers, Roeland |
2415 |
0:1 |
The city of Emsdetten back in the thirties, in a painting by Heinz Mussenbrock
The two matches took places in the local "Sparkasse" (savings
bank)
Inside the bank the two lines of tables, one for each of the team matches
A commentary room with about a dozen spectators
Board one in Wattenscheid vs Baden-Baden: Evgeny Najer vs Alexei Shirov
(Shirov won)
On board two Etienne Bacrot, Baden-Baden, beat Mateusz Bartel, Wattenscheid
Florian Handke, Wattenscheid, vs Liviu-Dieter Nisipeanu, Baden, was a draw
Who is this masked grandmaster – who has kindly annotated his game
for us below?
It's Dutch GM Anish Giri, who is playing board two for Emsdetten
Anish, who has played the Alekhine, is about to make his final move, 53...Re2-e7,
against Russian GM Gennadi Ginsburg, Heidelberg
The 15-year-old won his game with more time on his clock than when he started
(i.e. he used only the increments you get per move)
After the game Anish and Gennadi analyse in the refreshment room...
... which by the way provides food and drink for players and guests free of
charge
Captain Reinhard Lüke and President Wilhelm Loges of the Emsdetten Chess
Club
Reinhard Lüke is 48 and a club member since 1976 and has led the Emsdetten
Bundesliga team as captain for seven years now. Dr. Wilhelm Loges, 60, is a
medical doctor and the president of the club. He plays in the fourth team of
Emsdetten. Both were very hospitable and made our stay in the town most enjoyable.
One big family: the full team of Emsdetten in the Bundesliga
After the round we asked ("forced" is such an ugly word) Anish to
annotate his game for us. This young man, who is extrelemy computer savvy, speaks
excellent English – his second language after Russian. Many thanks for
these instructive and entertaining notes.
Ginsburg,G - Giri,A [B04]
Bundesliga 09-10 Linares/Spain, 21.03.2010 [Giri,Anish]
1.e4 Nf6!? 2.e5 Nd5 3.d4 d6 4.Nf3. White goes for a positional line,
trying to get a slight advantage without risk... 4...dxe5 5.Nxe5 c6. The
immideate Nd7 falls for Nxf7! 6.c4?! Logical but bad, due to 6...Nb4!
Now Black is slightly better, since White is practically forced to move
his knight to the edge (a3). 7.Be3. 7.a3? Qxd4! is the point. 7...Bf5
8.Na3. 8.Nd3 Would be okay for White if not for 8...e5! with advantage
for Black, since the pawn is untouchable in any way. 8...Nd7 9.Nxd7 Qxd7
10.Be2
10...e5!? A new move, and an ambitious, but also a somewhat risky try.
I remembered that after 10...e6 Black is slightly better, but I was
a bit afraid that White may equalise with 11.0-0 Be7 12.c5! bringing his knight
to c4. I must add, however, that after 12...b5! 13.cxb6 axb6 14.Nc4 Qc7 Black
remains slightly better. 11.0-0. 11.dxe5!? Was at least an alternative,
but somehow we both were not really considering it. 11...Nd3+ (11...0-0-0!?)
12.Bxd3 Bxd3 Seems to be very good for Black, but White has (12...Qxd3
is also possible. Black has compensation, but White is a pawn up.) 13.Qb3!,
which I missed, with idea to castle long. 11...exd4. I didn't like 11...0-0-0
because of 12.d5! 12.Qxd4? From now on White has to suffer in a horrible
endgame with the dead knight on a3. 12.Bxd4 was much better. Black has
a choice, but in any case the position remains ballanced. 12...0-0-0 was the
most logical follow-up, but here (The slow 12...b6!? is a good
option, followed by long castle.) 13.Bxa7 Qe6 14.Qe1! (14.Qa4 Qxe2
15.Bb6 Na6 16.Bxd8 Bxa3! was what I has calculated.) 14...Nd3 does
not win any material since after 15.Bxd3 Bxd3 Black has the intermezzo 16.Qxe6+
and the rook will move to c1. However, Black will have some compensation, due
to his bishop pair and again, that knight on a3. 12...Qxd4 13.Bxd4
13...0-0-0?! This is in fact a mistake, but it was hard not to make
such a move. 13...b6!?; 13...f6! was my original intention and was a
good move, but I had failed to see that after 14.Bh5+!? I can simply move my
king to c7 via d7 or d8. 14...Kd7 15.Rfd1 Kc7 with advantage. 14.Rfd1?
14.Bxa7! has to be tried, no matter what. I had planned 14...Rd2 15.Rfe1 Rxb2
16.c5! Be6! winning the a2 pawn. However White has 17.Nc4 Rxa2 18.Nb6+ Kd8 19.Nc4!
and black probably has to repeat, since White is ready to start some kind of
attack on the black king. 14...b6! 15.Bf3 f6!
With the last two moves Black has killed all White's ideas, and now is ready
to pick up the a2 pawn, which is doomed. 16.Be3 Bc5! 17.Bxc5 bxc5. It
is clear that doubled pawns are not a weakness here, but a strength, since they
control the important squares. 18.Rxd8+ Rxd8 19.Rd1 giving the a2 pawn,
which would be lost anyway. 19...Rd4! The simple 19...Rxd1+ 20.Bxd1
Nxa2 is also possible, but I wanted to leave White no chances. 20.Kf1 Kd7
21.Ke2 Kd6 22.Ke3 Ke5 23.g3
23...Nxa2. Now that White can't get his knight into the game I pick
up the pawn. 24.Be2 g5! 25.f3 Nb4 26.Rf1 Bd3! 27.Rf2 a5 28.h3 f5 29.f4+ gxf4+
30.gxf4+ Kf6 31.Bf3 Bxc4
Taking the second pawn. The rest is clear. 32.Nxc4 Rxc4 33.Rd2 Ke6 34.Rd8
Nd5+ 35.Kf2 Rxf4 36.Rh8 Nf6 37.Rc8 Kd7 38.Rf8 Ke7 39.Rc8 Nd7 40.Kg3 Rb4 41.Bxc6
Ne5 42.Bd5 h5! The last touch. 43.Rxc5 h4+ 44.Kg2 Rxb2+ 45.Kf1 a4 46.Ra5
Rb4 47.Ke2 Kf6 48.Bg8 Re4+ 49.Kf2 Kg5 50.Bh7 Kf4 51.Ra6 Nd3+ 52.Kg2 Re2+ 53.Kg1
Re7
Now the point is that after Rxa4 I play Kg3 threatening both, mate and the
bishop. 53...Kg3 would mate, but I saw the win already some six moves
ago, so I played without thinking. 0-1. [Click
to replay]
Anish on the train back home – to see his parents and sisters for
the first time in three weeks
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