2012/13 Schachbundesliga
The 2012/13 season of the German chess league, the Schachbundesliga, starts this weekend.
The Schachbundesliga is one of the strongest national chess leagues in the world, with 271 top players from 31 countries competing for the 16 league teams.
OSG Baden-Baden will be aiming to win a remarkable 8th consecutive league title, having completed seven in a row last year.
Star members of the OSG squad this year include Magnus Carlsen, Lev Aronian, Vishy Anand, Peter Svidler, Michael Adams, Alexei Shirov, Etienne Bacrot and Arkadij Naiditsch.
The first round is on Saturday 20 October at 14:00 local time (12:00 UTC), and the second round on Sunday 21 October at 10:00 (08:00 UTC).
The official website has a great live interface for following the games. The 2012/13 league season concludes in April 2013.
The top 50 rated players in the 2012/13 Scachbundesliga
| # | Name | Fed | Team | Elo |
| 1 | Carlsen,Magnus | NOR | OSG Baden-Baden | 2843 |
| 2 | Aronian,Levon | ARM | OSG Baden-Baden | 2816 |
| 3 | Anand,Viswanathan | IND | OSG Baden-Baden | 2780 |
| 4 | Svidler,Peter | RUS | OSG Baden-Baden | 2747 |
| 5 | Giri,Anish | NED | SK Turm Emsdetten | 2730 |
| 6 | Adams,Michael | ENG | OSG Baden-Baden | 2722 |
| 7 | Volokitin,Andrei | UKR | SF Katernberg | 2718 |
| 8 | Fressinet,Laurent | FRA | Werder Bremen | 2714 |
| 9 | Shirov,Alexei | LAT | OSG Baden-Baden | 2714 |
| 10 | McShane,Luke James | ENG | Werder Bremen | 2713 |
| 11 | Wojtaszek,Radoslav | POL | Hamburger SK | 2713 |
| 12 | Bologan,Victor | MDA | SC Eppingen | 2712 |
| 13 | Naiditsch,Arkadij | GER | OSG Baden-Baden | 2712 |
| 14 | Bacrot,Etienne | FRA | OSG Baden-Baden | 2705 |
| 15 | Movsesian,Sergej | ARM | OSG Baden-Baden | 2705 |
| 16 | Areshchenko,Alexander | UKR | Werder Bremen | 2702 |
| 17 | Vitiugov,Nikita | RUS | SV Wattenscheid | 2699 |
| 18 | Vachier-Lagrave,Maxime | FRA | SV Mülheim Nord | 2697 |
| 19 | Vallejo Pons,Francisco | ESP | OSG Baden-Baden | 2697 |
| 20 | Navara,David | CZE | SV Mülheim Nord | 2691 |
| 21 | Harikrishna,Pentala | IND | SC Eppingen | 2690 |
| 22 | Efimenko,Zahar | UKR | Werder Bremen | 2689 |
| 23 | Kryvoruchko,Yuriy | UKR | SF Katernberg | 2686 |
| 24 | Berkes,Ferenc | HUN | SC Eppingen | 2685 |
| 25 | Kasimdzhanov,Rustam | UZB | OSG Baden-Baden | 2684 |
| 26 | Alekseev,Evgeny | RUS | Wiesbadener SV | 2682 |
| 27 | Ragger,Markus | AUT | SG Solingen | 2677 |
| 28 | Gyimesi,Zoltan | HUN | SC Eppingen | 2674 |
| 29 | Tiviakov,Sergei | NED | SC Eppingen | 2674 |
| 30 | Grachev,Boris | RUS | SV Mülheim Nord | 2672 |
| 31 | Balogh,Csaba | HUN | SC Eppingen | 2668 |
| 32 | Najer,Evgeniy | RUS | SV Wattenscheid | 2664 |
| 33 | Potkin,Vladimir | RUS | SV Mülheim Nord | 2663 |
| 34 | Nielsen,Peter-Heine | DEN | OSG Baden-Baden | 2662 |
| 35 | Kurnosov,Igor | RUS | Wiesbadener SV | 2660 |
| 36 | Jones,Gawain C B | ENG | SG Solingen | 2658 |
| 37 | Motylev,Alexander | RUS | SV Mülheim Nord | 2658 |
| 38 | Negi,Parimarjan | IND | SF Katernberg | 2658 |
| 39 | Fridman,Daniel | GER | SV Mülheim Nord | 2657 |
| 40 | Bartel,Mateusz | POL | SV Wattenscheid | 2654 |
| 41 | Mchedlishvili,Mikheil | GEO | SK Turm Emsdetten | 2652 |
| 42 | Melkumyan,Hrant | ARM | Schachfreunde Berlin | 2650 |
| 43 | Khenkin,Igor | GER | Wiesbadener SV | 2648 |
| 44 | Nisipeanu,Liviu-Dieter | ROU | OSG Baden-Baden | 2648 |
| 45 | Erdoes,Viktor | HUN | SG Trier | 2643 |
| 46 | Landa,Konstantin | RUS | SV Mülheim Nord | 2641 |
| 47 | Lenic,Luka | SLO | SV Hockenheim | 2640 |
| 48 | Howell,David W L | ENG | SG Trier | 2638 |
| 49 | Nikolic,Predrag | BIH | SG Solingen | 2638 |
| 50 | Postny,Evgeny | ISR | SC Eppingen | 2637 |
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