Bundesliga: Baden-Baden still on 100% but Bremen leads

OSC Baden-Baden is the only team left in the Schachbundesliga that won all of its matches. Still it's Werder Bremen that leads the current standings, since this weekend not only the 3rd and 4th round of the German league were played, but also one match of the 7th round. We have all results and a selection of games, including the shocking loss of Alexei Shirov in only 16 moves against Michael Bezold.

This weekend's top matches took place in Bremen and Mülheim. The host team Bremen defeated the team of Eppingen 5.5-2.5 on Saturday, which included a win for Bremen's board 1 Pavel Eljanov against Evgeny Postny.

In Mülheim the host team faced the team of Solingen, and this match was decidede by just one game. With seven draws on the other boards, Solingen's Predrag Nikolic became the match winner thanks to his victory against Pavel Tregubov.

The German Champion OSG Baden-Baden was playing at home and was odds-on favourite in the matches against the teams of München and Erfurt. And indeed, on Saturday FC Bayern München was defeated 5.5-2.5 (despite Alexei Shirov dropping a piece on move 15 on board 1 against Michael Bezold!) and the next day Erfurter SK was slaughtered 0-8.

The round 7 match between Werder Bremen and Hamburg was already played on Friday and ended in a 4-4 tie and so Bremen is leading the standings after this second Bundesliga weekend, by one match point, but Baden-Baden still has a chance to catch up.

In the game section below we highly recommend the game of one of our Tal Memorial commentators, GM Wouter Spoelman, against Robert Rabiega. A fine example of Fischer's favourite ending: bishop versus knight in an open pawn structure.

Bundesliga 2009 | Round 4 Standings

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Round 3

B	Fed	OSG Baden-Baden	ELO	T	Rnr		Fed	FC Bayern München	ELO	T	Rnr	Result
1		Shirov, Alexei	2730	GM	6	:		Bezold, Michael	2517	GM	120	0 : 1
2		Bacrot, Etienne	2709	GM	12	:		Bromberger, Stefan	2518	IM	119	1 : 0
3		Adams, Michael	2682	GM	17	:		Schenk, Andreas	2509	IM	128	0.5 : 0.5
4		Vallejo Pons, Francisco	2696	GM	14	:		Reiss, Tibor	2414	IM	186	1 : 0
5		Nisipeanu, Liviu-Dieter	2664	GM	23	:		Renner, Christoph	2440	IM	171	1 : 0
6		Gustafsson, Jan	2622	GM	38	:		Belezky, Alexander	2463	IM	156	1 : 0
7		Dautov, Rustem	2596	GM	57	:		Meissner, Bernd	2410	IM	190	0.5 : 0.5
8		Schlosser, Philipp	2555	GM	81	:		Meister, Peter	2396	IM	194	0.5 : 0.5

B	Fed	Heidelberg-Handschuhsheim	ELO	T	Rnr		Fed	Erfurter SK	ELO	T	Rnr	Result
1		Ikonnikov, Viacheslav	2558	GM	78	:		Romanov, Evgeny	2588	GM	61	0 : 1
2		Svetushkin, Dmitry	2570	GM	67	:		Haba, Petr	2541	GM	95	0.5 : 0.5
3		Ginsburg, Gennadi	2537	GM	97	:		Michiels, Bart	2462	IM	157	1 : 0
4		Gurevic, Vladimir	2470	GM	152	:		Casper, Thomas	2395	IM	195	0.5 : 0.5
5		Chernov, Vadim	2433	IM	172	:		Enders, Peter	2467	GM	154	0 : 1
6		Gerigk, Erasmus	2335	FM	225	:		Mueller, Matthias	2410	IM	191	0.5 : 0.5
7		Maier, Christian	2350	IM	220	:		Schoene, Maria	2274	WM	242	1 : 0
8		Vatter, Hans-Joachim	2321	FM	229	:		Schuetze, Norman	2278	-	241	0.5 : 0.5

B	Fed	SV Mülheim Nord	ELO	T	Rnr		Fed	SG Solingen	ELO	T	Rnr	Result
1		Vachier-Lagrave, Maxime	2718	GM	8	:		Smeets, Jan	2642	GM	35	0.5 : 0.5
2		Tregubov, Pavel V.	2649	GM	33	:		Nikolic, Predrag	2602	GM	53	0 : 1
3		Landa, Konstantin	2655	GM	30	:		Buhmann, Rainer	2603	GM	52	0.5 : 0.5
4		Fridman, Daniel	2661	GM	27	:		Edouard, Romain	2620	GM	40	0.5 : 0.5
5		Malakhatko, Vadim	2569	GM	69	:		L'Ami, Erwin	2606	GM	50	0.5 : 0.5
6		Berelowitsch, Alexander	2551	GM	86	:		Ragger, Markus	2561	GM	75	0.5 : 0.5
7		Levin, Felix	2481	GM	148	:		Naumann, Alexander	2522	GM	115	0.5 : 0.5
8		Hausrath, Daniel	2528	IM	111	:		Hoffmann, Michael	2513	GM	124	0.5 : 0.5

B	Fed	SF Katernberg	ELO	T	Rnr		Fed	SC 1950 Remagen	ELO	T	Rnr	Result
1		Volokitin, Andrei	2681	GM	19	:		Fedorchuk, Sergey	2643	GM	34	1 : 0
2		Seel, Christian	2493	IM	139	:		Parligras, Mircea	2547	GM	91	0.5 : 0.5
3		Bischoff, Klaus	2561	GM	76	:		Dgebuadze, Alexandre	2521	GM	116	0 : 1
4		Glek, Igor V	2537	GM	96	:		Mainka, Romuald	2501	GM	135	1 : 0
5		Zaragatski, Ilja	2475	IM	150	:		Swinkels, Robin	2511	GM	126	0.5 : 0.5
6		Ris, Robert	2420	IM	179	:		Teske, Henrik	2545	GM	93	0.5 : 0.5
7		Siebrecht, Sebastian	2456	GM	159	:		Popovic, Petar	2496	GM	138	0.5 : 0.5
8		Scholz, Christian Dr.	2373	IM	208	:		Schulz, Klaus-Juergen	2385	IM	200	1 : 0

B	Fed	Werder Bremen	ELO	T	Rnr		Fed	SC Eppingen	ELO	T	Rnr	Result
1		Eljanov, Pavel	2717	GM	9	:		Postny, Evgeny	2651	GM	32	1 : 0
2		Fressinet, Laurent	2658	GM	29	:		Berkes, Ferenc	2663	GM	25	1 : 0
3		Areshchenko, Alexander	2667	GM	22	:		Balogh, Csaba	2620	GM	39	0.5 : 0.5
4		Roiz, Michael	2658	GM	28	:		Gyimesi, Zoltan	2594	GM	58	1 : 0
5		Nyback, Tomi	2615	GM	43	:		Ruck, Robert	2548	GM	89	1 : 0
6		Hracek, Zbynek	2606	GM	49	:		Braun, Arik	2519	GM	118	0.5 : 0.5
7		Babula, Vlastimil	2569	GM	70	:		Medvegy, Zoltan	2556	GM	80	0.5 : 0.5
8		Llaneza Vega, Marcos	2504	IM	132	:		Muzychuk, Anna	2533	IM	103	0 : 1

B	Fed	Hamburger SK	ELO	T	Rnr		Fed	SG Trier	ELO	T	Rnr	Result
1		Wojtaszek, Radoslav	2640	GM	36	:		Bobras, Piotr	2537	GM	99	0.5 : 0.5
2		Kempinski, Robert	2616	GM	42	:		Cyborowski, Lukasz	2503	GM	133	1 : 0
3		Rogozenco, Dorian	2541	GM	94	:		Gordon, Stephen	2535	GM	100	0 : 1
4		Rasmussen, Allan Stig	2535	GM	101	:		Jaracz, Pawel	2547	GM	90	0 : 1
5		Ftacnik, Lubomir Dr.	2532	GM	105	:		Erdos, Viktor	2591	GM	59	0.5 : 0.5
6		Mueller, Karsten Dr.	2523	GM	114	:		Flumbort, Andras	2513	IM	123	0 : 1
7		Heinemann, Thies	2484	IM	144	:		Gonda, Laszlo	2486	IM	142	0.5 : 0.5
8		Reeh, Oliver	2442	IM	169	:		Seger, Ruediger	2407	IM	192	1 : 0

B	Fed	SK Turm Emsdetten	ELO	T	Rnr		Fed	SF Berlin 1903	ELO	T	Rnr	Result
1		Spoelman, Wouter	2554	GM	82	:		Markos, Jan	2565	GM	73	0 : 1
2		Hector, Jonny	2568	GM	71	:		Lauber, Arnd	2517	IM	121	1 : 0
3		Feygin, Michael	2546	IM	92	:		Polzin, Rainer	2491	GM	141	0.5 : 0.5
4		Janssen, Ruud	2520	IM	117	:		Kraemer, Martin	2482	IM	146	0.5 : 0.5
5		Breder, Dennis	2427	IM	175	:		Schneider, Ilja	2500	IM	136	0.5 : 0.5
6		Fiebig, Thomas	2416	-	183	:		Agopov, Mikail	2452	IM	162	0 : 1
7		Pruijssers, Roeland	2415	IM	184	:		Thiede, Lars	2450	IM	164	0 : 1
8		Richter, Christian	2412	IM	188	:		Thinius, Marco	2375	IM	204	0.5 : 0.5

B	Fed	SV Wattenscheid 1930	ELO	T	Rnr		Fed	SK König Tegel	ELO	T	Rnr	Result
1		Vitiugov, Nikita	2681	GM	18	:		Rabiega, Robert	2531	GM	108	1 : 0
2		Najer, Evgeniy	2681	GM	20	:		Stern, Rene	2501	IM	134	1 : 0
3		Macieja, Bartlomiej	2618	GM	41	:		Muse, Mladen	2448	GM	166	0 : 1
4		Bartel, Mateusz	2609	GM	47	:		Von Herman, Ulf	2424	IM	176	1 : 0
5		Rustemov, Alexander	2532	GM	104	:		Muse, Drazen	2367	IM	210	1 : 0
6		Appel, Ralf	2551	GM	87	:		Fruebing, Stefan	2337	FM	224	0.5 : 0.5
7		Holzke, Frank Dr.	2526	GM	112	:		Giemsa, Stephan	2305	FM	234	0.5 : 0.5
8		Handke, Florian	2513	GM	125	:		Kachibadze, Georg	2239	-	250	0.5 : 0.5

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Round 4

B	Fed	FC Bayern München	ELO	T	Rnr		Fed	Heidelberg-Handschuhsheim	ELO	T	Rnr	Result
1		Bezold, Michael	2517	GM	120	:		Ikonnikov, Viacheslav	2558	GM	78	1 : 0
2		Bromberger, Stefan	2518	IM	119	:		Svetushkin, Dmitry	2570	GM	67	0.5 : 0.5
3		Schenk, Andreas	2509	IM	128	:		Ginsburg, Gennadi	2537	GM	97	0.5 : 0.5
4		Reiss, Tibor	2414	IM	186	:		Gurevic, Vladimir	2470	GM	152	0 : 1
5		Renner, Christoph	2440	IM	171	:		Chernov, Vadim	2433	IM	172	1 : 0
6		Belezky, Alexander	2463	IM	156	:		Gerigk, Erasmus	2335	FM	225	0.5 : 0.5
7		Meissner, Bernd	2410	IM	190	:		Schwalfenberg, Joerg	2317	FM	231	0.5 : 0.5
8		Meister, Peter	2396	IM	194	:		Maier, Christian	2350	IM	220	0 : 1

B	Fed	Erfurter SK	ELO	T	Rnr		Fed	OSG Baden-Baden	ELO	T	Rnr	Result
1		Romanov, Evgeny	2588	GM	61	:		Shirov, Alexei	2730	GM	6	0 : 1
2		Haba, Petr	2541	GM	95	:		Bacrot, Etienne	2709	GM	12	0 : 1
3		Michiels, Bart	2462	IM	157	:		Adams, Michael	2682	GM	17	0 : 1
4		Casper, Thomas	2395	IM	195	:		Vallejo Pons, Francisco	2696	GM	14	0 : 1
5		Enders, Peter	2467	GM	154	:		Nisipeanu, Liviu-Dieter	2664	GM	23	0 : 1
6		Mueller, Matthias	2410	IM	191	:		Gustafsson, Jan	2622	GM	38	0 : 1
7		Schoene, Maria	2274	WM	242	:		Dautov, Rustem	2596	GM	57	0 : 1
8		Schuetze, Norman	2278	-	241	:		Schlosser, Philipp	2555	GM	81	0 : 1

B	Fed	SG Solingen	ELO	T	Rnr		Fed	SF Katernberg	ELO	T	Rnr	Result
1		Smeets, Jan	2642	GM	35	:		Volokitin, Andrei	2681	GM	19	0.5 : 0.5
2		Nikolic, Predrag	2602	GM	53	:		Seel, Christian	2493	IM	139	0.5 : 0.5
3		Buhmann, Rainer	2603	GM	52	:		Bischoff, Klaus	2561	GM	76	0.5 : 0.5
4		Edouard, Romain	2620	GM	40	:		Glek, Igor V	2537	GM	96	0.5 : 0.5
5		L'Ami, Erwin	2606	GM	50	:		Zaragatski, Ilja	2475	IM	150	0.5 : 0.5
6		Ragger, Markus	2561	GM	75	:		Ris, Robert	2420	IM	179	1 : 0
7		Naumann, Alexander	2522	GM	115	:		Siebrecht, Sebastian	2456	GM	159	0.5 : 0.5
8		Hoffmann, Michael	2513	GM	124	:		Scholz, Christian Dr.	2373	IM	208	1 : 0

B	Fed	SC 1950 Remagen	ELO	T	Rnr		Fed	SV Mülheim Nord	ELO	T	Rnr	Result
1		Fedorchuk, Sergey	2643	GM	34	:		Vachier-Lagrave, Maxime	2718	GM	8	0 : 1
2		Parligras, Mircea	2547	GM	91	:		Tregubov, Pavel V.	2649	GM	33	0 : 1
3		Dgebuadze, Alexandre	2521	GM	116	:		Landa, Konstantin	2655	GM	30	0.5 : 0.5
4		Mainka, Romuald	2501	GM	135	:		Fridman, Daniel	2661	GM	27	0 : 1
5		Swinkels, Robin	2511	GM	126	:		Malakhatko, Vadim	2569	GM	69	0.5 : 0.5
6		Teske, Henrik	2545	GM	93	:		Berelowitsch, Alexander	2551	GM	86	0.5 : 0.5
7		Popovic, Petar	2496	GM	138	:		Hausrath, Daniel	2528	IM	111	0 : 1
8		Schulz, Klaus-Juergen	2385	IM	200	:		Schebler, Gerhard	2486	GM	143	0.5 : 0.5

B	Fed	SC Eppingen	ELO	T	Rnr		Fed	Hamburger SK	ELO	T	Rnr	Result
1		Postny, Evgeny	2651	GM	32	:		Wojtaszek, Radoslav	2640	GM	36	0.5 : 0.5
2		Berkes, Ferenc	2663	GM	25	:		Kempinski, Robert	2616	GM	42	0.5 : 0.5
3		Balogh, Csaba	2620	GM	39	:		Rogozenco, Dorian	2541	GM	94	0.5 : 0.5
4		Gyimesi, Zoltan	2594	GM	58	:		Rasmussen, Allan Stig	2535	GM	101	0.5 : 0.5
5		Ruck, Robert	2548	GM	89	:		Ftacnik, Lubomir Dr.	2532	GM	105	0 : 1
6		Braun, Arik	2519	GM	118	:		Mueller, Karsten Dr.	2523	GM	114	0 : 1
7		Medvegy, Zoltan	2556	GM	80	:		Heinemann, Thies	2484	IM	144	0 : 1
8		Muzychuk, Anna	2533	IM	103	:		Reeh, Oliver	2442	IM	169	0 : 1

B	Fed	SG Trier	ELO	T	Rnr		Fed	Werder Bremen	ELO	T	Rnr	Result
1		Bobras, Piotr	2537	GM	99	:		Eljanov, Pavel	2717	GM	9	0 : 1
2		Cyborowski, Lukasz	2503	GM	133	:		Fressinet, Laurent	2658	GM	29	0 : 1
3		Gordon, Stephen	2535	GM	100	:		Areshchenko, Alexander	2667	GM	22	0 : 1
4		Jaracz, Pawel	2547	GM	90	:		Roiz, Michael	2658	GM	28	0.5 : 0.5
5		Erdos, Viktor	2591	GM	59	:		Nyback, Tomi	2615	GM	43	0.5 : 0.5
6		Flumbort, Andras	2513	IM	123	:		Hracek, Zbynek	2606	GM	49	0.5 : 0.5
7		Gonda, Laszlo	2486	IM	142	:		Babula, Vlastimil	2569	GM	70	0.5 : 0.5
8		Seger, Ruediger	2407	IM	192	:		Llaneza Vega, Marcos	2504	IM	132	1 : 0

B	Fed	SF Berlin 1903	ELO	T	Rnr		Fed	SV Wattenscheid 1930	ELO	T	Rnr	Result
1		Markos, Jan	2565	GM	73	:		Vitiugov, Nikita	2681	GM	18	0 : 1
2		Lauber, Arnd	2517	IM	121	:		Najer, Evgeniy	2681	GM	20	0.5 : 0.5
3		Kraemer, Martin	2482	IM	146	:		Macieja, Bartlomiej	2618	GM	41	1 : 0
4		Schneider, Ilja	2500	IM	136	:		Bartel, Mateusz	2609	GM	47	0.5 : 0.5
5		Agopov, Mikail	2452	IM	162	:		Rustemov, Alexander	2532	GM	104	0.5 : 0.5
6		Thiede, Lars	2450	IM	164	:		Appel, Ralf	2551	GM	87	0 : 1
7		Thinius, Marco	2375	IM	204	:		Holzke, Frank Dr.	2526	GM	112	0 : 1
8		Abel, Dennes	2380	-	202	:		Handke, Florian	2513	GM	125	0 : 1

B	Fed	SK König Tegel	ELO	T	Rnr		Fed	SK Turm Emsdetten	ELO	T	Rnr	Result
1		Rabiega, Robert	2531	GM	108	:		Spoelman, Wouter	2554	GM	82	0 : 1
2		Stern, Rene	2501	IM	134	:		Hector, Jonny	2568	GM	71	0.5 : 0.5
3		Muse, Mladen	2448	GM	166	:		Feygin, Michael	2546	IM	92	0 : 1
4		Von Herman, Ulf	2424	IM	176	:		Janssen, Ruud	2520	IM	117	0.5 : 0.5
5		Muse, Drazen	2367	IM	210	:		Breder, Dennis	2427	IM	175	0 : 1
6		Fruebing, Stefan	2337	FM	224	:		Fiebig, Thomas	2416	-	183	0.5 : 0.5
7		Giemsa, Stephan	2305	FM	234	:		Pruijssers, Roeland	2415	IM	184	0 : 1
8		Kachibadze, Georg	2239	-	250	:		Richter, Christian	2412	IM	188	0.5 : 0.5

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Round 7

B	Fed	Werder Bremen	ELO	T	Rnr		Fed	Hamburger SK	ELO	T	Rnr	Result
1		Eljanov, Pavel	2717	GM	9	:		Wojtaszek, Radoslav	2640	GM	36	0.5 : 0.5
2		Fressinet, Laurent	2658	GM	29	:		Kempinski, Robert	2616	GM	42	0.5 : 0.5
3		Areshchenko, Alexander	2667	GM	22	:		Rogozenco, Dorian	2541	GM	94	0.5 : 0.5
4		Roiz, Michael	2658	GM	28	:		Rasmussen, Allan Stig	2535	GM	101	1 : 0
5		Nyback, Tomi	2615	GM	43	:		Ftacnik, Lubomir Dr.	2532	GM	105	0.5 : 0.5
6		Hracek, Zbynek	2606	GM	49	:		Heinemann, Thies	2484	IM	144	1 : 0
7		Babula, Vlastimil	2569	GM	70	:		Huschenbeth, Niclas	2411	IM	189	0 : 1
8		Llaneza Vega, Marcos	2504	IM	132	:		Sebastian, Dirk	2443	-	168	0 : 1

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