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Bundesliga: Preliminary decisions

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BundesligaThe most important match of the weekend will take place in Bremen. The only serious contender of Baden-Baden is facing the strong team of Mülheim. Bremen needs to win in order not to loose the contact to the top of the table. The match starts on Saturday on 2pm and will be broadcast live in the net as any other games from the Schachbundesliga.

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.

Playing venue: Swissotel Bremen, Hillmannplatz 20, 28195 Bremen

10th round: Saturday, 26th of February 2011, 2pm Werder Bremen - SV Mülheim Nord Delmenhorster SK - SF Katernberg

11th round: Sunday, 27th of February 2011, 10am SV Mülhein Nord - Delmenhorster SK SF Katernberg - Werder Bremen

At the playing venue Solingen the host team will face Hamburg and Berlin. Solingen ist one of the strongest teams in the league and is aiming to qualify for the European Club Cup. An interesting match will take place between Berlin and Remagen. Both teams are fighting against relegation.

Playing venue: Stadtsparkasse Solingen, Kölner Str. 72, 42631 Solingen

10th round: Saturday, 26th of February 2011, 2pm SG Solingen - Hamburger SK SC Remagen - SF Berlin

11th round: Sunday, 27th of February 2011, 10am Hamburger SK - SC Remagen SF Berlin - SG Solingen

At the playing venue Griesheim the top duo Baden-Baden/Eppingen will face the duo Trier/Griesheim. This two teams surprised throughout the season with some unexpected results and will be hard rivals to beat for the favourites. As usual the line-ups from Baden-Baden and the teams at the same venue are published in advance.

Playing venue: Bürgerhaus St. Stephan, Am St. Stephansplatz 26, 64337 Griesheim

10th round: Saturday, 26th of February 2011, 2pm

      SV Griesheim                  OSG Baden-Baden 	 
1     Aleksander Mista       2574   Etienne Bacrot          2716
2     Marcin Tazbir          2523   Peter-Heine Nielsen     2670
3     Piotr Murdzia          2477   Arkadij Naiditsch       2674
4     Miroslaw Grabarczyk    2475   Liviu-Dieter Nisipeanu  2683
5     Bogdan Grabarczyk      2448   Georg Meier             2659
6     Krzysztof Bulski       2459   Jan Gustafsson          2646
7     Julian Geske           2364   Fabian Döttling         2579
8     Stefan Walter          2321   Philipp Schlosser       2574

SG Trier SC Eppingen 1 Constantin Lupulescu 2617 Ferenc Berkes 2678 2 Lukasz Cyborowski 2531 Csaba Balogh 2608 3 Pawel Jaracz 2543 Evgeny Postny 2595 4 Laszlo Gonda 2550 Arik Braun 2538 5 Rüdiger Seger 2416 Robert Ruck 2555 6 Andrei Nestor Cioara 2426 Namig Guliyev 2510 7 Miklos Galyas 2484 Zoltan Medvegy 2531 8 Dietmar Kolbus 2332 Elisabeth Pähtz 2467



11th round: Sunday, 27th of February 2011, 10am

        OSG Baden-Baden               SG Trier 	 
1 	Etienne Bacrot         2716   Constantin Lupulescu    2617
2 	Peter-Heine Nielsen    2670   Lukasz Cyborowski       2531
3 	Arkadij Naiditsch      2674   Pawel Jaracz            2543
4 	Liviu-Dieter Nisipeanu 2683   Laszlo Gonda            2550
5 	Georg Meier            2659   Rüdiger Seger           2416
6 	Jan Gustafsson         2646   Andrei Nestor Cioara    2426
7 	Fabian Döttling        2579   Miklos Galyas           2484
8 	Philipp Schlosser      2574   Dietmar Kolbus          2332

SC Eppingen SV Griesheim 1 Ferenc Berkes 2678 Aleksander Mista 2574 2 Csaba Balogh 2608 Marcin Tazbir 2523 3 Evgeny Postny 2595 Piotr Murdzia 2477 4 Arik Braun 2538 Miroslaw Grabarczyk 2475 5 Robert Ruck 2555 Bogdan Grabarczyk 2448 6 Namig Guliyev 2510 Krzysztof Bulski 2459 7 Zoltan Medvegy 2531 Julian Geske 2364 8 Elisabeth Pähtz 2467 Stefan Walter 2321


At the playing venue Aue most teams are playing against relegation and so some very hardfought matches can be awaited. Especially Bayern Munich has to score in order to have chances to survive.

Playing venue: Aula der Mittelschule Aue-Zelle, Agrikolastraße 5, 08280 Aue

10th round: Saturday, 26th of February 2011, 2pm ESV Nickelhütte Aue - SK Turm Emsdetten Bayern München - SV Wattenscheid

11th round: Sunday, 27th of February 2011, 10am SK Turm Emsdetten - Bayern München SV Wattenscheid - ESV Nickelhütte Aue

Live 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 one of the strongest engines in the world - Rybka 4. Also its possible to download all games by one click.

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