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This weekend was the second in the 2009-2010 season of the German Team Championship. It started on Friday with the "Hanseatic derby" of Werder Bremen vs Hamburger SK, which is really the seventh round but was played in advance. The venue was the famous Weser Stadion, where normally the Champions League and European League football matches take place.
Werder played without their top Azeri players Shak Mameryarov and Vugar Gashimov, because the two could not come to German due to visa problems. After dramatic developments the match ended in a tie 4.0-4.0. The game of Radoslav Wojtaszek vs Pavel Eljanov was the last and decisive game and is well worth replaying, especially the ending with passed and connect pawns on different wings.
Wojtaszek,R (2640) - Eljanov,P (2717) [D44]
Bundesliga 2009-10 Bremen GER (7), 13.11.2009
1.d4 d5 2.c4 c6 3.Nf3 Nf6 4.Nc3 dxc4 5.a4 e6 6.e4 Bb4 7.Bg5 Bxc3+ 8.bxc3 Qa5
9.e5 Ne4 10.Rc1 Nd7 11.Nd2 Nxd2 12.Bxd2 Nb6 13.Qg4 Bd7 14.Qxg7 0-0-0 15.Qxf7
Rdf8 16.Qe7 Qd5 17.f3 Nxa4 18.Be2 c5 19.Be3 Bc6 20.0-0 h5 21.Qd6 a6 22.dxc5
Nb2 23.Qxd5 Bxd5 24.Bg5 Rh7 25.Bf6 Nd3 26.Bxd3 cxd3 27.c4 Bc6 28.Rfd1 Rd7 29.Rd2
Ba4 30.Rb1 Rd4 31.Rb6 Bc6 32.Rb3 Rxc4 33.Rbxd3 a5 34.Kf2 a4 35.h3 Bd5 36.g4
hxg4 37.fxg4 Rxc5 38.g5 b5 39.g6 b4 40.h4 a3 41.g7 Rg8 42.h5 Rc1 43.Rxd5 exd5
44.Kg3 Rg1+ 45.Rg2 Rh1 46.Rh2 Rg1+ 47.Rg2 Rh1 48.Rh2 draw.
Pavel Eljanov in the Bundesliga
Werder Bremen with their top eight players (Gashimov, Mamedyarov, McShane, Eljanov, Efimenko, Fressinet, Areshchenko, Roiz) is without doubt a hot candidate for the title. The reigning champion Baden-Baden has in the current season once again the nominally strongest team, with top players including Anand, Carlsen, Svidler, Shirov, Bacrot, Movsesian, Adams, Naiditsch, Vallejo Pons, and Nielsen.
The venue of the Baden-Baden match was not a football arena but the local "Kulturhaus LA8", which is quite luxurious for such events (picture above). Baden won this match against Bayern Munich – yes, the same as great football club, but with much less money involved. The score was 5.5 to 2.5 but Alexei Shirov played a disastrous miniature against Michael Bezold.
Bezold,M (2517) - Shirov,A (2730) [A14]
Bundesliga 2009-10 Baden Baden GER (3), 14.11.2009
1.c4 e6 2.Nf3 d5 3.g3 Nf6 4.Bg2 Be7 5.0-0 0-0 6.d4 dxc4 7.Qc2 a6 8.a4
Bd7 9.Qxc4 Bc6 10.Bg5 Bd5 11.Qc2 a5 12.Nc3 Na6 13.e4 Nb4 14.Qe2 Bc6 15.Rfd1
15...Nd7?? 16.d5 (trapping the bishop). 1-0.
Alexei Shirov – this can happen even to the strongest players in
the world
Bayern München is, like Tegel (Berlin), SF Berlin, Erfurt and Heidelberg, one of the teams with mainly German players living in the vicinity. On the starting lists based on the average ratings you will find them usually at the bottom.
IM Anna Muzychuk of Slovenia played her first games as one of the few female players – and the strongest one at that – in the highest German chess league. She is playing on board eight for SC Eppingen. In round three Anna, who is rated 2533, scored a fine black-piece win against IM Marcos Llaneza Vega, 2504. But in round four IM Oliver Reeh, 2442, taught her a lesson in kingside attacks after Bg5 h6 Bh4 g5 in the Ruy Lopez (or Giuoco Piano). Oliver is on the ChessBase team and provides us with many of the didactic positions you see on our news page.
Muzychuk,A (2533) - Reeh,O (2442) [C64]
Bundesliga 2009-10 Bremen GER (4), 15.11.2009
1.e4 e5 2.Nf3 Nc6 3.Bb5 Bc5 4.0-0 Nd4 5.Nxd4 Bxd4 6.c3 Bb6 7.d4 c6 8.Ba4 d6
9.Re1 Nf6 10.Bg5 h6 11.Bh4 g5 12.Bg3 h5 13.f3 h4 14.Bf2 g4 15.Na3 Be6 16.Bb3
Qe7 17.Nc4 g3 18.Be3 gxh2+ 19.Kxh2 Bxc4 20.Bxc4 0-0-0 21.a4 Rdg8 22.a5 Bc7 23.d5
Nh5 24.dxc6 Nf4 25.cxb7+ Kb8 26.Qd2 Rg3 27.Bxf4 exf4 28.Re2 h3 29.Qxf4 d5 30.e5
Rxg2+ 31.Kh1 dxc4 32.Rae1 Rhg8 33.a6 Qc5 34.Qxf7 Qc6 35.Qf6 Rxe2 36.Rxe2 Qc5
0-1.
A lesson from ChessBase trainer Oliver Reeh
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Rnk |
Team | Rds |
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= |
– |
TP |
BP |
1 |
Werder Bremen | 5 |
4 |
1 |
0 |
9 |
24.5 |
2 |
SV Wattenscheid 1930 | 5 |
4 |
0 |
1 |
8 |
25.5 |
3 |
SK Turm Emsdetten | 5 |
4 |
0 |
1 |
8 |
25 |
4 |
OSG Baden-Baden | 4 |
4 |
0 |
0 |
8 |
23 |
5 |
Hamburger SK | 5 |
3 |
1 |
1 |
7 |
23 |
6 |
SG Solingen | 4 |
3 |
0 |
1 |
6 |
19 |
7 |
SC Eppingen | 5 |
2 |
1 |
2 |
5 |
20.5 |
8 |
SV Mülheim Nord | 4 |
2 |
1 |
1 |
5 |
18.5 |
9 |
SF Katernberg | 4 |
2 |
0 |
2 |
4 |
14 |
10 |
SG Trier | 5 |
1 |
0 |
4 |
2 |
16.5 |
11 |
SF Berlin 1903 | 4 |
1 |
0 |
3 |
2 |
14.5 |
12 |
SC 1950 Remagen | 4 |
1 |
0 |
3 |
2 |
13.5 |
13 |
Heidelberg-Handschuhsheim | 4 |
0 |
2 |
2 |
2 |
12.5 |
14 |
FC Bayern München | 4 |
0 |
1 |
3 |
1 |
13 |
15 |
Erfurter SK | 4 |
0 |
1 |
3 |
1 |
7 |
16 |
SK König Tegel | 4 |
0 |
0 |
4 |
0 |
10 |
Links
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