German number one, GM Arkadij Najditsch, once again demonstrated he can be Dangerous for World Champion Magnus Carlsen. In the 3rd round of the Grenke Chess Classic Magnus played a dubious piece sacrifice for two pawns in a Pirc. Magnus had not enough compensation and struggled. But in the time scramble phase, Najditsch played unprecise and Magnus equalized. Magnus then made some errors and lost. This was a very tough loss. I guess it would have been smarter to go for the Sveshnikov or Accelrated Dragon. To give up material after 10 moves for uncertain compensation makes no sense. After this win Najditsch leads with 2 points. He shares the lead with Caruana who beat Aronian who seems to have seen his better days as chessplayer.Magnus follows in 3rd Place With 1,5 Points. He must share this Place With Anand,Adams and Bacrot. Adams beat Baramidze in this round. Thursday is free day in Baden-Baden. The 4th round will be played on Friday at 3 p.m. (15.00). Magnus has black against Anand in a revenge Meeting after the World Championship Match.Caruana has white against Adams in the other top game of this round. Follow the games live on ChessBomb. Read roundreports at ChessBase or Sjakkfantomet. Photo:The organizer
World Champion Magnus Carlsen has taken the lead in the Grenke Chess Classic. Magnus beat GM Mickey Adams as white in the 2nd round. Magnus started with the English opening.He held a slight adavantage most of the game. As Adams gave away a pawn in the endgame, Magnus converted into a victory. With this win Magnus leads alone With 1,5 Points. The games Anand-Najditsch, Caruana-Bacrot and Baramidze-Aronian ended in draws. The 3rd round will be played today. Magnus has black against GM Arkadij Najditsch and will be eager to revenge the loss from the Chess Olympics in Tromsø. The other games will be Aronian-Caruana, Bacrot-Anand and Adams-Baramidze. Follow the games live from 3 p.m. on ChessBomb. Read the report from round 2 on ChessBase. Foto:grenkechessclassic.com
FM Christoph Natsidis (links) wurde bester Sachsen-Spieler bei dem 2.AGM-Schnellschachturnier arrangiert von Fortuna Leipzig. Christoph machte 6 Punkte in 7 Runden und war punktgleich mit dem Turniersieger GM Christian Bauer aus der Schweiz.IM Oleg Spirin wurde Dritter mit 5,5 Punkten.
Verdensmester Magnus Carlsen (t.h.) startet Grenke Chess Classic i tyske Baden-Baden med remis mot GM Levon Aronian. Armeneren hadde fordel i mitdspillet, men Magnus utlignet. Magnus jobbet for helpoenget i sluttspillet, men det var vel strengt tatt aldri seriøse muligheter. Også partiene Cariuana-Anand, Adams-Najditsch og Bacrot-Baramidze endte remis. 2.runde spilles i dag kl.15 med partiene Carlsen-Adams, Anand-Naj- ditsch, Caruana-Bacrot og Baramidze-Aronian. Følg disse partiene live på ChessBomb eller hjemmesiden. Les runderapporten fra 1.runde hos ChessBase. Foto:hjemmesiden
GM Lothar Vogt (left) made a fine performance in the Bundesliga last weekend. He won as black against IM Gerlef Meins on Saturday but Vogts`Eppingen still lost 3,5-4,5 against Werder Bremen. On Sunday Vogt played a draw against IM Christian Richter, but Eppingen against lost 3,5-4,5 against Turm Emsdetten. Vogts`opponent on this picture, GM Raj Tischbierek,also made 1,5 points after winning on Saturday against GM Spike Ernst. Tischbierek and his club Dresden won against Rostock on Saturday, 6,5-1,5, but lost on Sunday 3,5-4,5 against Hamburger SK. After 9 rounds Baden-Baden leads with 17 Points, after dropping one point against Werder Bremen last weekend. Dresden lies in 4th Place. Eppingen in 12th place and needs more points to save the place.The last four teams in the table will be relegated.
SG Leipzig played three matches in the 2.Bundesliga Ost at the weekend. On Friday it was a difficult match against Nickelhütte Aue who brought all of their grandmasters to the match in Leipzig. The guests won this match 6-2, winning on the four top boards and dropping draws on the bottom boards
On Saturday the important match against Pang Rosenheim was played. SG Leipzig got nice positions on many boards. FM Matthias Liedtke won a nice attacking game where he sacrificed lots of material to get a mating attack. Very nice play by Matthias! On the top boards things looked nice and FM Roland Voigt had an edge against GM Valery Atlas. Roland won the exchange. On the neighbour board IM Heiko Machelett offered a draw, but his Austrian opponent nobbed the offer. Some times later I made a draw on board 5. Leonard Richter had to defend well to get a draw against IM Maximilian Berchtenbreiter. Things looked a bit shaky for FM Wilfrid Wernert who found himself in a difficult endgame which he lost some time later. After a while Heiko`s game ended in a draw. Then FM Manfred Böhnisch decided the match for us. We lead 3,5-2,5 and team captain FM Stephan Rausch had a stable advantage With a pawn over in a rook endgame. Then Roland made a draw. Stephan failed to win his endgame, but it was still enough to win the match 4,5-3,5. Two very important points which gave us hope of saving the place in the 2.Bundesliga.
Sunday was a tougher day.We should play the leader MSV Zugzwang.Sadly Heiko had to rest due to health problems. Robert Kreyssig came in for Heiko. The match began with a draw between FM Manfred Böhnisch and his opponent. Then we started to get into problems on many boards. Leonard, Wilfrid and Thomas struggled and lost. In the meantime Roland made a fine draw against strong GM Stefan Kindermann. Stephan and I got into trouble in time trouble and both lost. The match ended with a terrible 1-7 loss against a strong opponent.
FM Manfred Böhnisch (right) was back in the 1st team. He was matchwinner against Pang Rosenheim. Manfred finished the game of with a nice attack on blacks`king.Yesterday he made a quick draw. Next to him FM Matthias Liedtke wins against FM Johannes Blaskowski.Matthias sacrificed material to mate his opponent.
Robert Kreyssig (right) made his debut in the 2.Bundesliga. He fought good, but lost against Petar Panteev.
FM Roland Voigt (left) played a pretty solid draw against GM Stefan Kindermann. Roland made two draws against solid opposition this weekend. I guess there are good chances he will win his first game of the season when we travel to Bad Mergentheim 21. February. Next to Roland we can see FM Wilfrid Wernert playing IM Stefan Bromberger.
