German Championship (2006)

PARTICIPANTS (sorted by highest achieved rating; click on name to see player's games) Artur Yusupov, Georg Meier, Igor Khenkin, Alexander (Nenashev) Graf, Jan Gustafsson, Leonid Kritz, David Baramidze, Thomas Luther, Michael Prusikin, Vitaly Kunin, Alexander Naumann, Niclas Huschenbeth, Jan Michael Sprenger, Raj Tischbierek, Yakov Meister, Thomas Henrichs, Gerlef Meins, Alexander Markgraf, Thies Heinemann, Lutz Espig, Evgeny Degtiarev, Ilja Brener, Herbert Bastian, Christian Koepke, Karl-Jasmin Muranyi, Thomas Michalczak, Mike Stolz, Dr. Wolfram Heinig, Andreas Reuss, Michael Becker, Hannes Knuth, Thomas Hoepfl, Thomas Schunk, Eduard Schunk, Norman Schuetze, Ralf Schoene, Klaus Peter Zuse, Stephan Holzschuh, Holger Namyslo, Dieter Bischoff, Christoph Rother, Udo Kaeser, Jens Reipsch, Martin Schuster, Andreas Basilius Gikas, Christian Rathje

page 1 of 9; games 1-25 of 204  Game   Result Moves Year Event/Locale Opening 1. K Muranyi vs J Gustafsson   0-1 41 2006 German Championship A45 Queen's Pawn Game 2. G Meins vs N Huschenbeth   ½-½ 31 2006 German Championship E97 King's Indian 3. H Knuth vs T Heinemann   ½-½ 50 2006 German Championship A57 Benko Gambit 4. T Henrichs vs H Namyslo   1-0 33 2006 German Championship D45 Queen's Gambit Declined Semi-Slav 5. S Holzschuh vs G Meier   ½-½ 71 2006 German Championship C10 French 6. H Bastian vs C Koepke   ½-½ 56 2006 German Championship B26 Sicilian, Closed, 6.Be3 7. L Espig vs M Schuster   ½-½ 63 2006 German Championship A13 English 8. N Schuetze vs E Degtiarev   ½-½ 21 2006 German Championship B66 Sicilian, Richter-Rauzer Attack, 7...a6 9. M Stolz vs D Bischoff   ½-½ 48 2006 German Championship B22 Sicilian, Alapin 10. C Rathje vs T Michalczak   0-1 38 2006 German Championship C77 Ruy Lopez 11. A B Gikas vs A Markgraf   0-1 27 2006 German Championship B43 Sicilian, Kan, 5.Nc3 12. J Reipsch vs V Kunin   ½-½ 43 2006 German Championship B92 Sicilian, Najdorf, Opocensky Variation 13. R Tischbierek vs C Rother   1-0 33 2006 German Championship A00 Uncommon Opening 14. Yusupov vs A Reuss   1-0 45 2006 German Championship D15 Queen's Gambit Declined Slav 15. E Schunk vs A Graf   0-1 40 2006 German Championship B40 Sicilian 16. Khenkin vs U Kaeser   1-0 55 2006 German Championship D30 Queen's Gambit Declined 17. R Schoene vs T Luther   0-1 67 2006 German Championship D38 Queen's Gambit Declined, Ragozin Variation 18. M Prusikin vs W Heinig   ½-½ 22 2006 German Championship E71 King's Indian, Makagonov System (5.h3) 19. K P Zuse vs L Kritz   0-1 20 2006 German Championship B22 Sicilian, Alapin 20. D Baramidze vs I Brener   1-0 48 2006 German Championship B33 Sicilian 21. M Becker vs A Naumann   ½-½ 74 2006 German Championship B51 Sicilian, Canal-Sokolsky (Rossolimo) Attack 22. J Sprenger vs T Schunk ½-½ 22 2006 German Championship B01 Scandinavian 23. T Hoepfl vs Y Meister   0-1 25 2006 German Championship B70 Sicilian, Dragon Variation 24. E Degtiarev vs H Knuth   1-0 45 2006 German Championship E42 Nimzo-Indian, 4.e3 c5, 5.Ne2 (Rubinstein) 25. D Bischoff vs L Espig   ½-½ 11 2006 German Championship A80 Dutch  page 1 of 9; games 1-25 of 204    REFINE SEARCH:   White wins (1-0) | Black wins (0-1) | Draws (1/2-1/2)

Feb-13-06    jperr75108: I see there is alot of interest in the German Championship. Feb-13-06    jamesmaskell: Germany has good players but this tournament isnt exactly packed to the rafters with big names...Naiditsch isnt there for one and hes the only German I know of... Feb-13-06    iron maiden: Lutz and Huebner were both absent too. Feb-14-06    Dim Weasel: The opening choices are much more varied compared to the absolute top events. Feb-14-06    DutchDunce: I've been noticing this. At the very top these days, you have the Ruy Lopez, Petroff, Sicilian, English, Slav, Queen's Indian and Nimzo. That's pretty much it. g6-Indians (KID/Grunfeld), e6-QGD's, the French and Caro-Kann have almost disappeared. I don't know if it's a matter of wanting to be trend setters, or whether the latter group of openings is just objectively worse. Feb-14-06    Jim Bartle: Openings seem to go in cycles, I guess. Players tend to follow the lead of the top players, such as Kasparov with the Scotch and Evans Gambit (so said Alexei Shirov), though I don't know how true that is with Topalov, Anand, and, uh, you know (a certain player now taking time off to get healthy). I definitely have noticed the shortage of QGDs in recent play. I haven't seen any Botvinnik anti-Merans at all, maybe because it's analyzed to death and the memorization required doesn't appeal to that many players. Feb-15-06    Dim Weasel: The life-cycle of some sharp opening variations may also be quite funny: first they produce mostly decisive results and are feared amongst players, but after getting thoroughly analyzed (being so dangerous) they sometimes turn into drawing weapons. Feb-15-06    s4life: <jamesmaskell: Germany has good players but this tournament isnt exactly packed to the rafters with big names...Naiditsch isnt there for one and hes the only German I know of...> What? Artur Yusupov is there...

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