OSC Baden-Baden prolongs Bundesliga title

Just like last year the Ooser Schachclub Baden-Baden became club champion of Germany, in other words the winner of the Bundesliga, the stronges league in the world. By beating Werder Bremen 6-2 on Saturday, Baden-Baden secured the first spot already.

Today's match against the Hamburger SK didn't matter anymore and so a collective draw on eight boards was played. Well, this is what you'd expect when you look at the results, but after seeing the games it seems that the players did fight for a while. Still, I have the impression that at a certain moment the two team captains looked at each other and then stopped the last clocks that were still running. Surely our editor IM Merijn van Delft, who scored a valuable draw with Black against Vallejo Pons, can spread some light on this issue soon.

The final standings of the Bundesliga 2006-2007, which lasted fifteen rounds played in several weekends:

 1. OSC Baden Baden  15 27  86 
 2. Hamburger SK     15 23  67 
 3. SG K?ɬ?ln Porz     15 21  74 
 4. Bindlach-Aktion?ɬ§ 15 19  66?Ǭ? 
 5. SC Remagen       15 18  61?Ǭ? 
 6. SG Aljechin Soli 15 17  65 
 7. TV Tegernsee     15 17  62 
 8. SC Kreuzberg     15 15  59?Ǭ?
 9. SV Wattenscheid  15 15  55?Ǭ? 
10. SC Eppingen      15 15  54?Ǭ? 
11. Werder Bremen    15 14  62 
12. SF Katernberg    15 14  61 
13. SV M?ɬºlheim Nord  15 10  58 
14. SF Berlin 1903   15  9  47?Ǭ? 
15. SC Bann          15  5  49 
16. SK K?ɬ?nig Tegel   15  1  31

All details, results and standings can be found here. Which (top) players go behind these clubs, you can find out here (the clubs are clickable):

OSC Baden-Baden

SC Bann

SF Berlin

TSV Bindlach-Aktion?ɬ§r

SC Eppingen

Hamburger SK

SF Katernberg

SC Kreuzberg

SV M?ɬºlheim-Nord

SG Porz

SC Remagen

SG Aljechin Solingen

SK K?ɬ?nig Tegel

TV Tegernsee

SV Wattenscheid

Werder Bremen

The winning team. | Photo: OSC Baden-Baden website Click on the photo for a bigger version.

Svidler, Carlsen and Anand in one team! | Photo: OSC Baden-Baden website

More photos at the OSC Baden-Baden website.

This last weekend's games of Baden-Baden:

Saturday:

   OSC Baden-Baden     - Werder Bremen       6-2   
1. Anand (2779)        - McShane (2615)      1-0  
2. Svidler (2728)      - Efimenko (2616)     ?Ǭ?-?Ǭ?  
3. Shirov (2715)       - Areshchenko (2644)  1-0   
4. Carlsen (2690)      - Hracek (2619)       1-0   
5. Vallejo Pons (2679) - Pelletier (2589)    ?Ǭ?-?Ǭ?   
6. Nielsen (2651)      - Babula (2584)       1-0   
7. Movsesian (2637)    - Nyback (2604)       ?Ǭ?-?Ǭ?   
8. Krasenkow (2651)    - Knaak (2486)        ?Ǭ?-?Ǭ?

Sunday:

   Hamburger SK        - OSC Baden-Baden     4-4   
1. Wojtaszek (2637)    - Anand (2779)        ?Ǭ?-?Ǭ?   
2. Gustafsson (2584)   - Svidler (2728)      ?Ǭ?-?Ǭ?   
3. Ftacnik (2582)      - Shirov (2715)       ?Ǭ?-?Ǭ?   
4. Kempinski (2590)    - Carlsen (2690)      ?Ǭ?-?Ǭ?   
5. Van Delft (2398)    - Vallejo Pons (2679) ?Ǭ?-?Ǭ?   
6. Heinemann (2453)    - Nielsen (2651)      ?Ǭ?-?Ǭ?   
7. Sebastian (2384)    - Movsesian (2637)    ?Ǭ?-?Ǭ?   
8. Huschenbeth (2259)  - Krasenkow (2651)    ?Ǭ?-?Ǭ?