Start of the season 2010/11
The Schachbundesliga starts its season at 8th of October 2010 with three encounters of the 7th round and at the weekend with the regular first two rounds at the venues Baden-Baden, Bremen, Wattenscheid and Aue. The Schachbundesliga also presents a novelty. All games are presented within a new designed live portal with some really nice features. The season starts with some top games in Baden-Baden. The four teams involved in this venue present 27 grandmasters and some really interesting faces and players. The top game of the weekend takes place between Baden-Baden and Solingen on Saturday.
The runner-up Bremen welcomes at home the teams of Delmenhorst, Hamburg and Berlin. Bremen is theoretically the only serious contender of Baden-Baden and odds-on favourite at the first weekend.
At the venue Wattenscheid, a part of the city of Bochum, the home team welcomes the teams of Emsdetten, Trier and Griesheim. Here some interesting young players can be awaited. Wattenscheid is playing with the youngest German grandmaster, Sebastian Bogner, and Emsdetten will probably playing with young dutch prodigy Anish Giri.
At the venue Aue, a city from far east of Germany, the teams of Nickelhütte Aue, Bayern München, Katernberg and Mülheim will meet for their matches. Aue, who promoted in the Schachbundesliga, is one of the underdogs in the league.
As in the last season the Schachbundesliga publishes the lineups of the teams involved at the venue, where Baden-Baden is playing. The pairings of the weekend are as follows:
7th round: Friday, 8th of October 2010, 4pm*
Werder Bremen – Delmenhorster SK
SV Wattenscheid – SK Turm Emsdetten
ESV Nickelhütte Aue – FC Bayern München
1st round: Saturday, 9th of October 2010, 2 pm
Playing venue Baden-Baden
| OSG Baden-Baden | SG Solingen | |||
| 1 | Peter Svidler | 2731 | Chanda Sandipan | 2641 |
| 2 | Sergei Movsesian | 2723 | Jan Werle | 2574 |
| 3 | Etienne Bacrot | 2716 | Predrag Nikolic | 2597 |
| 4 | Michael Adams | 2728 | Markus Ragger | 2628 |
| 5 | Francisco Vallejo Pons | 2697 | Romain Edouard | 2636 |
| 6 | Arkadij Naiditsch | 2674 | Artur Jussupow | 2589 |
| 7 | Jan Gustafsson | 2646 | Sipke Ernst | 2587 |
| 8 | Philipp Schlosser | 2574 | Alexander Naumann | 2544 |
| SC Eppingen | SC Remagen | |||
| 1 | Evgeny Postny | 2595 | Tigran Gharamian | 2658 |
| 2 | Zoltan Gyimesi | 2595 | Mircea Parligras | 2601 |
| 3 | Falko Bindrich | 2507 | Jean-Marc Degraeve | 2561 |
| 4 | Arik Braun | 2538 | Alexandre Dgebuadze | 2524 |
| 5 | Robert Ruck | 2555 | Benjamin Bok | 2453 |
| 6 | Namig Guliyev | 2510 | Bart Michiels | 2459 |
| 7 | Zoltan Medvegy | 2531 | Petar Popovic | 2495 |
| 8 | Elisabeth Pähtz | 2467 | Jens Kipper | 2394 |
Playing venue Bremen
Werder Bremen – Hamburger SK
Delmenhorster SK – SF Berlin
Playing venue Wattenscheid
SV Wattenscheid – SG Trier
SK Turm Emsdetten – SV Griesheim
Playing venue Aue
ESV Nickelhütte Aue – SV Mülheim Nord
FC Bayern München – SF Katernberg
2nd round: Sunday, 10th of October 2010, 10 am
Plaiyng venue Baden-Baden
| SG Solingen | SC Eppingen | |||
| 1 | Chanda Sandipan | 2641 | Evgeny Postny | 2595 |
| 2 | Jan Werle | 2574 | Zoltan Gyimesi | 2595 |
| 3 | Predrag Nikolic | 2597 | Falko Bindrich | 2507 |
| 4 | Markus Ragger | 2628 | Arik Braun | 2538 |
| 5 | Romain Edouard | 2636 | Robert Ruck | 2555 |
| 6 | Artur Jussupow | 2589 | Namig Guliyev | 2510 |
| 7 | Sipke Ernst | 2587 | Zoltan Medvegy | 2531 |
| 8 | Alexander Naumann | 2544 | Elisabeth Pähtz | 2467 |
| SC Remagen | OSG Baden-Baden | |||
| 1 | Tigran Gharamian | 2658 | Peter Svidler | 2731 |
| 2 | Mircea Parligras | 2601 | Sergei Movsesian | 2723 |
| 3 | Jean-Marc Degraeve | 2561 | Etienne Bacrot | 2716 |
| 4 | Alexandre Dgebuadze | 2524 | Michael Adams | 2728 |
| 5 | Benjamin Bok | 2453 | Francisco Vallejo Pons | 2697 |
| 6 | Bart Michiels | 2459 | Arkadij Naiditsch | 2674 |
| 7 | Petar Popovic | 2495 | Jan Gustafsson | 2646 |
| 8 | Jens Kipper | 2394 | Philipp Schlosser | 2574 |
Playing venue Bremen
Hamburger SK – Delmenhorster SK
SF Berlin – Werder Bremen
Playing venue Wattenscheid
SG Trier – SK Turm Emsdetten
SV Griesheim – SV Wattenscheid
Playing venue Aue
SV Mülheim Nord – FC Bayern München
SF Katernberg – ESV Nickelhütte Aue
Live coverage:
All games of the Schachbundesliga are covered live in the internet. This season the games are presented within a new live portal. Its possible to follow any game just by one click and all games are analyzed by a strong engine. Also it´s possible to register for a chat and to communicate with other users. Also its possible to download all games by one click.
*In the 7th round the matches between the travel partners take place. This round is played throughout the first half of the season.
Georgios Souleidis (Editor Website Schachbundesliga)
Website (english version): http://www.schachbundesliga.de/index.php?lang=en&menuid=79&topmenu=79&keepmenu=inactive
Live portal: http://bundesliga.liveschach.net/index.php
This league puts the US Chess League to shame.
Well Anon the U.S. is in a process of change, didnt you hear the president? Now that this process has taken place on the chessboard you might be stronger, lets say, today and tommorrow ur busted, so perhaps we should not be so hasty.