From 4th to 6th of February two matches of the 7th round and the regular matches of the 8th and 9th round of the Schachbundesliga will take place. The playing venues are Eppingen, Wattenscheid, Remagen and Mülheim. All pairings and informations are presented in the following article.
By Georgios Souleidis At Eppingen the host and the team of Baden-Baden meet the teams of München and Aue. Things seem to be clear at this venue as München and Aue are playing against relegation and will not compete with their best lineup.
8th round: Saturday, 5th of February 2011, 2pm SC Eppingen Bayern München
1 Csaba Balogh 2608 Stefan Bromberger 2530
2 Evgeny Postny 2595 Tibor Reiss 2403
3 Zoltan Gyimesi 2595 Christoph Renner 2420
4 Peter Acs 2601 Alexander Belezky 2454
5 Robert Ruck 2555 Peter Meister 2446
6 Zoltan Medvegy 2531 Bernd Meissner 2401
7 Christian Mann 2444 Ludwig Deglmann 2397
8 Lothar Vogt 2423 Felix Graf 2341
OSG Baden-Baden ESV Nickelhütte Aue
1 Sergei Movsesian 2723 Tatjana Vasilevich 2399
2 Etienne Bacrot 2716 Tatiana Melamed 2353
3 Peter-Heine Nielsen 2670 Lutz Diebl 2222
4 Francisco Vallejo Pons 2697 Sebastian Eichner 2323
5 Arkadij Naiditsch 2674 Cliff Wichmann 2341
6 Rustem Dautov 2602 Lubos Rosko 2305
7 Fabian Döttling 2579 Jürgen Heinz 2288
8 Philipp Schlosser 2574 Ralf Schnabel 2259
9th round: Sunday, 6th of February 2011, 10am
Bayern München OSG Baden-Baden
1 Stefan Bromberger 2530 Sergei Movsesian 2723
2 Tibor Reiss 2403 Etienne Bacrot 2716
3 Christoph Renner 2420 Peter-Heine Nielsen 2670
4 Alexander Belezky 2454 Francisco Vallejo Pons 2697
5 Peter Meister 2446 Arkadij Naiditsch 2674
6 Bernd Meissner 2401 Rustem Dautov 2602
7 Ludwig Deglmann 2397 Fabian Döttling 2579
8 Felix Graf 2341 Philipp Schlosser 2574
ESV Nickelhütte Aue SC Eppingen
1 Tatjana Vasilevich 2399 Csaba Balogh 2608
2 Tatiana Melamed 2353 Evgeny Postny 2595
3 Lutz Diebl 2222 Zoltan Gyimesi 2595
4 Sebastian Eichner 2323 Peter Acs 2601
5 Cliff Wichmann 2341 Robert Ruck 2555
6 Lubos Rosko 2305 Zoltan Medvegy 2531
7 Jürgen Heinz 2288 Christian Mann 2444
8 Ralf Schnabel 2259 Lothar Vogt 2423
The biggest contender of Baden-Baden, Werder Bremen, will play at the venue Wattenscheid. The "Green-Whites" are odds-on favourite in both matches but in the past not rarely they had problems against underdogs.
8th round: Saturday, 5th of February 2011, 2pm SV Wattenscheid - Werder Bremen
Turm Emsdetten - Delmenhorster SK
9th round: Sunday, 6th of February 2011, 10am Werder Bremen - Turm Emsdetten
Delmenhorster SK - SV Wattenscheid
At the playing venue Remagen some crucial matches in the fight against relegation will take place. The host has to score especially against Griesheim in order to leave the relegation zone. Solingen is one of the best teams in the league and odds-on favourite in all matches.
7th round: Friday, 4th of February 2011, 4pm SC Remagen - SG Solingen
8th round: Saturday, 5th of February 2011, 2pm SC Remagen - SG Trier
SG Solingen - SV Griesheim
9th round: Sunday, 6th of February 2011, 10am SG Trier - SG Solingen
SV Griesheim - SC Remagen
At the playing venue Mülheim all participating teams lie in the midfield of the league. So all matches are expected to be very close. The host Mülheim is practicing for the next season. This team will host the first ever central round of the Schachbundesliga. From 14th to 16th of October 2011 the first three rounds of the season 2011/12 will be played with all teams in Mülheim.
7th round: Friday, 4th of February 2011, 4pm SV Mülheim Nord - SF Katernberg
8th round: Saturday, 5th of February 2011, 2pm SV Mülheim Nord - Hamburger SK
SF Katernberg - SF Berlin
9th round: Sunday, 6th of February 2011,
10am Hamburger SK - SF Katernberg
SF Berlin - SV Mülheim Nord
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