Videos from the Bundesliga
11 March 2008 12:02 PM | Last modified: 12:16
This weekend the 10th and 11th round of the world’s strongest club competition, the Bundesliga, have been played. We have results, games and, most importantly, video interviews!
It’s almost impossible for OSC Baden Baden not to win another national title. Their 22 points out of 11 matches say enough - it’s not so bad, is it? Despite playing without Carlsen, Anand and Shirov, who were attending the closing ceremony of Morelia/Linares on Saturday afternoon, the German top team scored another two victories this weekend, against SC Eppingen and TV Tegernsee.
One player deserves special attention. Arkadij Naiditsch has scored an astronomical 8.5 out of 9 so far (a 2971 performance). In four weeks, the national champion will meet SF Katernberg and SV Mülheim-Nord and in Trier they can already secure themselves of another title.
Recently the Bundesliga acquired a new webmaster, IM Georgios Souleidis, who was already known in German cyberspace because of his excellent blog Entwicklungsvorsprung.
During the Bundesliga weekends Georgios will try to provide video interviews, and today you can already watch the first three! First there’s the Russian GM Alexander Motylev (Peter Svidler’s second in Mexico) who tells about his game with Black against Kasimdzhanov (Saturday) and his White game against Miroshnichenko (Sunday).
Georgios also interviewed the two young Dutch IMs Robert Ris and Robin Swinkels, who both travelled to Germany this weekend to… meet each other behind the chess board. It was part of Sunday’s match SC Remagen-SF Katernberg.
Here are this weekend’s match results and the top boards results:
Saturday: Bindlach-Aktionär - SC Kreuzberg 4½ - 3½ Navara - Sargissian 0 - 1 Baklan - Luther 1 - 0 Erfurter SK - SK Zehlendorf 4 - 4 Krämer - Maksimenko 0 - 1 Votava - Novikov 1 - 0 SC Eppingen - OSC Baden-Baden 3 - 5 Tiviakov - Svidler ½ - ½ Berkes - Bacrot ½ - ½ Braun - Nisipeanu 0 - 1 Gyimesi - Movsesian 0 - 1 TV Tegernsee - SG Turm Trier 4 - 4 Volokitin - cyborowski 1 - 0 Khenkin - Flumbort ½ - ½ SV Mülheim-Nord - SC Remagen 5½ - 2½ Landa - Miroshnichenko ½ - ½ Fridman - Avrukh ½ - ½ SF Katernberg - Godesberger SK 6 - 2 Motylev - Kasimdzhanov ½ - ½ L’Ami - Lutz ½ - ½ Hamburger SK - SG Solingen 3½ - 4½ Gustafsson - Stellwagen 1 - 0 Ftacnik - Nikolic ½ - ½ Werder Bremen - SV Wattenscheid 5 - 3 McShane - Eljanov 0 - 1 Efimenko - Najer 0 - 1 Sunday: SC Kreuzberg - Erfurter SK 3 - 5 Sargissian - Krämer 1 - 0 Luther - Votava ½ - ½ SK Zehlendorf - Bindlach-Aktionär 3 - 5 Maksimenko - Navara ½ - ½ Novikov - Baklan ½ - ½ OSC Baden-Baden - TV Tegernsee 5½ - 2½ Svidler - Volokitin 1 - 0 Bacrot - Khenkin ½ - ½ Nisipeanu - Sokolov ½ - ½ Movesesian - Ribli ½ - ½ SG Turm Trier - SC Eppingen 2 - 6 Cyborowski - Tiviakov 0 - 1 Flumbort - Berkes ½ - ½ SC Remagen - SF Katernberg 4 - 4 Miroshnichenko - Motylev ½ - ½ Avrukh - L’Ami ½ - ½ Godesberger SK - SV Mülheim-Nord 1½ - 6½ Kasimdzhanoc - Landa ½ - ½ Lutz - Fridman ½ - ½ SG Solingen - Werder Bremen 3½ - 4½ Stellwagen - McShane ½ - ½ Nikolic - Efimenko ½ - ½ SV Wattenscheid - Hamburger SK 4½ - 3½ Eljanov - Gustafsson ½ - ½ Najer - Ftacnik 1 - 0
Current standings:
| Place | Club | R | MP | BP | + | = | - |
| 1. | OSC Baden-Baden | 11 | 22 | 61,5 | 11 | 0 | 0 |
| 2. | SV Mülheim-Nord | 11 | 17 | 54,5 | 8 | 1 | 2 |
| 3. | Werder Bremen | 11 | 16 | 50,5 | 8 | 0 | 3 |
| 4. | TSV Bindlach-Aktionär | 11 | 15 | 47,5 | 6 | 3 | 2 |
| 5. | TV Tegernsee | 11 | 13 | 44,5 | 5 | 3 | 3 |
| 6. | SF Katernberg | 11 | 12 | 44,5 | 5 | 2 | 4 |
| 7. | SG Aljechin Solingen | 11 | 11 | 47,0 | 5 | 1 | 5 |
| 8. | SC Eppingen | 11 | 10 | 42,5 | 4 | 2 | 5 |
| 9. | SV Wattenscheid | 11 | 10 | 40,5 | 3 | 4 | 4 |
| 10. | SG Turm Trier | 11 | 10 | 40,5 | 3 | 4 | 4 |
| 11. | Hamburger SK | 11 | 9 | 43,5 | 4 | 1 | 6 |
| 12. | Erfurter SK | 11 | 8 | 38,5 | 2 | 4 | 5 |
| 13. | SC Remagen | 11 | 7 | 39,5 | 2 | 3 | 6 |
| 14. | SK Zehlendorf | 11 | 7 | 37,5 | 1 | 5 | 5 |
| 15. | SC Kreuzberg | 11 | 5 | 40,0 | 2 | 1 | 8 |
| 16. | Godesberger SK | 11 | 4 | 31,5 | 1 | 2 | 8 |
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Coming from the Netherlands, I especially liked the interview with Ris and Swinkels!
Also thanks for mentioning the German weblog, it is really nice and after some reading, I didn’t hesitate to add it to my favorites.
As the most entertaining section of the blog I must mention: “Gurke meiner Karriere”. I never heard the expression, but it probably means something like “the blunder of a lifetime”, it’s just great!
You are right Jeans. It´s “the blunder of a lifetime”. Also i publish the blunder of the Bundesliga after every weekend. Very famous in Germany.
kind regards
Videos re the Bundesliga: an exciting development! This is the 2nd season in which the Bundesliga is operating under a new business structure i.e. as a separate GmbH (sth like ). Given the dominant role of video in “WEB 2.0″, I hope that those responsible for the commercial development of the Bundesliga decide to invest more in video; if so where better than at Chessvibes who have the best platform after all. Could one at least of the players be persuaded to go all through a game as at Corus?
Congrats Georgios.Excellent work for Bundesliga!