Bundesliga starts, with new live portal
Tomorrow the new Schachbundesliga season takes off with three encounters of the 7th round and the regular first two rounds on Saturday and Sunday at the venues Baden-Baden, Bremen, Wattenscheid and Aue. The Bundesliga 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 at this venue present 27 grandmasters and some really interesting faces and players. The top match 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 this first weekend.In 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 expected. Wattenscheid is playing with the youngest German grandmaster Sebastian Bogner, and Emsdetten will probably be playing with young Dutch prodigy Anish Giri.At the venue Aue, a city located in the far east of Germany, the teams of Nickelhütte Aue, Bayern München, Katernberg and Mülheim will meet for their matches. Aue, who promoted to the first Schachbundesliga last year, is one of the underdogs in the league.Like last season the Schachbundesliga publishes the lineups of the teams that are playing at the Baden-Baden venue. This weekend's pairings 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 München1st round: Saturday, 9th of October 2010, 2 pmPlaying venue Baden-BadenOSG 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 2394Playing venue BremenWerder Bremen - Hamburger SK Delmenhorster SK - SF BerlinPlaying venue Wattenscheid SV Wattenscheid - SG Trier SK Turm Emsdetten - SV GriesheimPlaying venue AueESV Nickelhütte Aue - SV Mülheim Nord FC Bayern München - SF Katernberg2nd round: Sunday, 10th of October 2010, 10 amPlaiyng 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 2574Playing venue BremenHamburger SK - Delmenhorster SK
SF Berlin - Werder BremenPlaying venue WattenscheidSG Trier - SK Turm Emsdetten
SV Griesheim - SV WattenscheidPlaying venue AueSV Mülheim Nord - FC Bayern München
SF Katernberg - ESV Nickelhütte AueLive coverage
All games of the Schachbundesliga are covered live on 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. It's also possible to register for a chat and to communicate with other users. And it's 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.Links
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