5th and 6th round of the Schachbundesliga
The 5th and 6th round of the Schachbundesliga and two matches from round 7 will take place from the 11th to the 13th of December, 2009.
The top matches of the weekend will take place in Hamburg and Heidelberg. Bremen, the team at the top of the league, will face at Sunday in Hamburg runner-up Wattenscheid. Both teams are well known for their fighting spirit so all spectators can await a long and exciting match. The second top match will take place in Heidelberg where Eppingen will challenge OSG Baden-Baden. In the last rounds Eppingen lost some important points and is highly motivated to astonish the german champion.
5th round: Saturday, 11th of December 2009, 2 pm
Playing venue Erfurt (Routing)
Erfurter SK – SG Solingen
Bayern München – SC Remagen
Playing venue Heidelberg (Routing)
SK Heidelberg-Handschuhsheim – SC Eppingen
OSG Baden-Baden – SG Trier
Playing venue Berlin-Tegel (Routing)
SK König Tegel – SV Mülheim Nord
SF Berlin – SF Katernberg
Playing venue Hamburg (Routing)
Hamburger SK – SV Wattenscheid
Werder Bremen – SK Turm Emsdetten
6th round: Sunday, 13th of December 2009, 10 am
Playing venue Erfurt
SG Solingen – Bayern München
SC Remagen – Erfurter SK
Playing venue Heidelberg
SC Eppingen – OSG Baden-Baden
SG Trier – SK Heidelberg-Handschuhsheim
Playing venue Berlin-Tegel
SV Mülheim Nord – SF Berlin
SF Katernberg – SK König Tegel
Playing venue Hamburg
SV Wattenscheid – Werder Bremen
SK Turm Emsdetten – Hamburger SK
Matches of the 7th round: Friday, 11th of December 2009, 4pm
Playing venue Erfurt
Erfurter SK – Bayern München
Playing venue Heidelberg
SK Heidelberg-Handschuhsheim – OSG Baden-Baden
Both teams agreed to publish their lineups for their match in advance. Here are the parings:
| SK Heidelberg-Handschuhsheim | OSG Baden-Baden | |||
| 1 | Viacheslav Ikonnikov | (2558) | Etienne Bacrot | (2709) |
| 2 | Dmitry Svetushkin | (2570) | Sergei Movsesian | (2711) |
| 3 | Vladimir Gurevich | (2470) | Arkadij Naiditsch | (2685) |
| 4 | Erasmus Gerigk | (2335) | Francisco Vallejo Pons | (2696) |
| 5 | Jörg Schwalfenberg | (2317) | Peter-Heine Nielsen | (2687) |
| 6 | Hans-Joachim Vatter | (2321) | Jan Gustafsson | (2622) |
| 7 | Georg Nippgen | (2249) | Rustem Dautov | (2596) |
| 8 | Jean-Luc Roos | (2260) | Philipp Schlosser | (2555) |
Live coverage:
All games of the Schachbundesliga are covered live in the internet. At the particular date of the matches you can get access to the games via this website.
That’s one strong league.
How come other websites don’t cover the German Chess League? They have many good players.
Considering the tremendous rating advantage, I expect Baden-Baden to score at least a +5 against Heidelberg, anything less and they better start thinking of playing in the “other” Bundesliga 😉