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🏆 Bundesliga 2023/24

  PARTICIPANTS (sorted by highest achieved rating; click on name to see player's games)
Levon Aronian, Shakhriyar Mamedyarov, Maxime Vachier-Lagrave, Viswanathan Anand, Hikaru Nakamura, Nodirbek Abdusattorov, Pentala Harikrishna, Pavel Eljanov, Gata Kamsky, Michael Adams, Richard Rapport, Alexey Shirov, Jan-Krzysztof Duda, Nikita Vitiugov, Sergei Movsesian, David Navara, Radoslaw Wojtaszek, Etienne Bacrot, Vincent Keymer, Parham Maghsoodloo, Arkadij Naiditsch, Francisco Vallejo Pons, Anton Korobov, Laurent Fressinet, Alexander Areshchenko, Rustam Kasimdzhanov, Yuriy Kryvoruchko, Loek van Wely, M Amin Tabatabaei, Ivan Cheparinov, Luke McShane, Alexander Motylev, Zahar Efimenko, Liviu-Dieter Nisipeanu, Markus Ragger, David Anton Guijarro, Bassem Amin, Nihal Sarin, Kiril Georgiev, Christian Bauer, Nils Grandelius, Max Warmerdam, Nijat Abasov, Mateusz Bartel, Thai Dai Van Nguyen, Kirill Shevchenko, Tigran Gharamian, Michal Krasenkow, Predrag Nikolic, Matthias Bluebaum, Robert Markus, Eduardo Iturrizaga Bonelli, Surya Shekhar Ganguly, Frederik Svane, Georg Meier, Daniel Fridman, Jan Smeets, Benjamin Gledura, Abhijeet Gupta, Daniel Dardha, Dmitrij Kollars, Grzegorz Gajewski, Pavel Tregubov, Maxime Lagarde, Daniil Yuffa, Alexander Graf, Borki Predojevic, Jonas Buhl Bjerre, Jan Gustafsson, Erwin L'Ami, Alexander Donchenko, Mircea-Emilian Parligras, Zbynek Hracek, Robert Kempinski, Ante Brkic, Leon Mendonca, Mikhailo Oleksienko, Aryan Tari, Zdenko Kozul, Hrvoje Stevic, Rasmus Svane, Andreas Heimann, Jaime Santos Latasa, Rustem Dautov, Velimir Ivic, Pouya Idani, Niclas Huschenbeth, Sebastien Maze, Sebastian Bogner, Matthieu Cornette, Lubomir Ftacnik, Dennis Wagner, Aleksandar Kovacevic, Erik van den Doel, Gerald Hertneck, Gabor Papp, Stepan Zilka, Arik Braun, Adam Kozak, Vlastimil Babula Sr plus 131 more players.

Chessgames.com Chess Event Description
Bundesliga 2023/24

Name: Bundesliga 2023/24
Event Date: October 21, 2023 - April 28, 2024
Site: Germany
Format: 16-team round-robin
Time control: 100 minutes for 40 moves, followed by 50 minutes for the rest of the game, with a 30-second increment from move 1.

Official website: https://www.schachbundesliga.de/

 page 2 of 29; games 26-50 of 701  PGN Download
Game  ResultMoves YearEvent/LocaleOpening
26. D Kollars vs M Feygin  1-0362023Bundesliga 2023/24B01 Scandinavian
27. D Hausrath vs J Gustafsson  ½-½212023Bundesliga 2023/24E06 Catalan, Closed, 5.Nf3
28. A Gupta vs M Saltaev  1-0462023Bundesliga 2023/24D02 Queen's Pawn Game
29. V Buckels vs S Zilka  ½-½312023Bundesliga 2023/24D02 Queen's Pawn Game
30. Dautov vs V Dinstuhl  ½-½232023Bundesliga 2023/24D27 Queen's Gambit Accepted, Classical
31. T Gungl vs A Heimann  ½-½582023Bundesliga 2023/24E46 Nimzo-Indian
32. R G Koellner vs T Dordevic  1-0442023Bundesliga 2023/24D02 Queen's Pawn Game
33. Rapport vs J B Bjerre  ½-½412023Bundesliga 2023/24C46 Three Knights
34. P Teclaf vs Keymer  ½-½452023Bundesliga 2023/24B90 Sicilian, Najdorf
35. Vitiugov vs S Gumularz  1-0542023Bundesliga 2023/24C65 Ruy Lopez, Berlin Defense
36. N Meshkovs vs F Vallejo Pons  0-11132023Bundesliga 2023/24D02 Queen's Pawn Game
37. A Donchenko vs J S Thybo  1-0282023Bundesliga 2023/24E47 Nimzo-Indian, 4.e3 O-O 5.Bd3
38. B M Ochsner vs Kasimdzhanov  0-1422023Bundesliga 2023/24C78 Ruy Lopez
39. Adams vs M Fromm 1-0352023Bundesliga 2023/24C79 Ruy Lopez, Steinitz Defense Deferred
40. J L Pajeken vs Bacrot ½-½532023Bundesliga 2023/24B47 Sicilian, Taimanov (Bastrikov) Variation
41. Motylev vs R Svane  ½-½212023Bundesliga 2023/24C50 Giuoco Piano
42. F Svane vs T Gharamian  1-0342023Bundesliga 2023/24B17 Caro-Kann, Steinitz Variation
43. C Bauer vs R Kempinski  ½-½212023Bundesliga 2023/24A46 Queen's Pawn Game
44. G Papp vs M Cornette  ½-½212023Bundesliga 2023/24E06 Catalan, Closed, 5.Nf3
45. P Laurent-Paoli vs J Kramer  1-0542023Bundesliga 2023/24B62 Sicilian, Richter-Rauzer
46. Ftacnik vs S Grigoriants  ½-½212023Bundesliga 2023/24D41 Queen's Gambit Declined, Semi-Tarrasch
47. K Georgiev vs T Heinemann  1-0452023Bundesliga 2023/24E39 Nimzo-Indian, Classical, Pirc Variation
48. J Weihrauch vs T Heinz  ½-½272023Bundesliga 2023/24C11 French
49. M A Tabatabaei vs L Livaic  1-0362023Bundesliga 2023/24D35 Queen's Gambit Declined
50. M Kraemer vs N Huschenbeth  0-1412023Bundesliga 2023/24B69 Sicilian, Richter-Rauzer Attack, 7...a6 Defense, 11.Bxf6
 page 2 of 29; games 26-50 of 701  PGN Download
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Kibitzer's Corner
Nov-08-23
Premium Chessgames Member
  Check It Out: This event lasts 6 months? That's got to be some hotel bill.
Nov-08-23
Premium Chessgames Member
  perfidious: <CIO>, games are played on weekends, two per weekend.
Nov-09-23
Premium Chessgames Member
  Check It Out: <perf> I'm still not clear; do the competitors fly to Germany every weekend? That seems implausible over six months.
Nov-09-23
Premium Chessgames Member
  perfidious: <CIO>, yes, and teams are allowed two foreign players; I would assume the restriction is so that one side cannot load up with, say, a brace of top English players. In Nunn's Best Games, he wrote of flying in for the weekend and meeting compatriots at the board Believe he annotated a win over Danny King in the above-mentioned work. Two foreign GMs of note who often played the Bundesliga were Spassky and Christiansen. Hort and Yusupov also once played, but I am unclear whether they were then German residents.
Nov-09-23
Premium Chessgames Member
  Troller: They can have more than 2 foreign players. Check out this Viernheim team: https://www.schachbundesliga.de/erg...

And I believe Meier represents Uruguay now...

Nov-09-23
Premium Chessgames Member
  perfidious: That squad is loaded.

Must be things have changed since Nunn's days in the Bundesliga.

Nov-09-23
Premium Chessgames Member
  Check It Out: Perf, thank you.
Nov-10-23
Premium Chessgames Member
  Troller: Also they play only every second or third weekend. Often the full round is played at the same venue; this can be very fun to watch in person I suppose.

Usually there have been some heavyweights like the Viernheim team this season. OSG Baden Baden has Michael Adams as 5th reserve player! But it all depends on whether they get the top names to actually play. I wonder if they sign some names simply to keep them away from the competitors?

Back in the nineties I remember Curt Hansen playing something like 7th board for Porz at a time when he was in the top 50 in the world. I think he was supposed to score 80-90% each season which he then did, clearing away one IM/FM after the other.

Nov-10-23  whiteshark: There has been no restriction of foreign players in the Bundesliga for decades.
Nov-10-23
Premium Chessgames Member
  perfidious: Nunn wrote of this in 1994.
Nov-12-23  whiteshark: The line-up of last year's champion from Lübeck for the season 2002/2003: 14/14 foreign players:

Adams
Grischuk
Shirov
Lautier
Epishin
Fressinet
Speelman
Hodgson
Nunn
Lars Bo Hansen
Conquest
Hector
deFirmian
Agdestein

Source: "Schach", 09/2002, p.36

Nov-13-23
Premium Chessgames Member
  offramp: The Bundesliga is best known as the football Bundesliga.

Wikipedia says that there are many Bundesligas:

Frauen-Bundesliga – Women's top division association football in Germany (1990–present)
Under 19 Bundesliga – Men's under 19 football (2003–present)
Under 17 Bundesliga – Men's under 17 football (2007–present)
Basketball Bundesliga (1966–present)
Damen-Basketball-Bundesliga (founded 1947), women's basketball
Bundesliga (baseball) (1984–present)
Chess Bundesliga (1980–present)
World League eSport Bundesliga (2005-2006), video games
Men's Feldhockey Bundesliga
German Football League (1979–present),
American football Bundesliga, renamed in 1999
Go-Bundesliga, Go
Handball-Bundesliga (1965–present)
Handball-Bundesliga (women) (founded 1975), women's handball
Ice hockey
Deutsche Eishockey Liga (1995–present)
Eishockey-Bundesliga (1958-1994)
German women's ice hockey Bundesliga (founded 1988), women's ice hockey
Roller Hockey Bundesliga (founded 1967), men's roller hockey
Rugby
Rugby-Bundesliga, rugby union (1971–present)
Women's Rugby Bundesliga (1987–present), women's rugby union
Bundesliga (shooting) (1997–present)
Bundesliga (table tennis) (1966–present)
Tennis Bundesliga (men) (1972–present)
Volleyball
Deutsche Volleyball-Bundesliga
German Women's Volleyball League
German Women's 2 Volleyball Bundesliga
Bundesliga (wrestling) (1964–present)

Nov-14-23
Premium Chessgames Member
  Check It Out: Chess Bundesliga: 100+ chess players, representing dozens of teams worldwide, spend $$$ flying in every weekend over six months to battle for the ultimate chess crown, CHESS BUNDESLIGA CHAMPION!! Widely regarded as the greatest chess event of all time, the individual World Chess Champion crown pails in comparison. For example, street question to the sidewalk crowd: <Name the current world chess champion> OF 8.9 BILLION people surveyed, only 1.5792368 Billion people worldwide answered, "Ding Liren!" Peanuts compared to the Bundesliga!! Hoo wahh!!!! 8.2 Billion confirmed knowledge!

I need a vacation.

Nov-30-23  macer75: So do yall think Leverkusen can pull it off in the end?
Dec-01-23
Premium Chessgames Member
  Troller: <macer75: So do yall think Leverkusen can pull it off in the end?>

A bit too early to say after 12 matches. Although right now it does seem only the mighty Bayern can follow them.

On the <chess> side, OSG has a monster team but they drew Hamburger SK in the second round. OSG and Viernheim must still be the favourites.

Jan-16-24
Premium Chessgames Member
  Troller: Viernheim and Schachfreunde both won in round 6, going to 12 match points. Kirchweyhe is surprisingly at 11 mp together with the favourites from OSG Baden-Baden.

The less interesting and rather obscure <football> Bundesliga is turning into a race between Leverkusen and Bayern München. Bayern and Werder Bremen are sporting teams in both Bundesligas!

Feb-24-24  whiteshark: Today is round 10, with top team-pairing Viernheim vs Baden-Baden. Live coverage: https://www.chess.com/events/2023-2... B.Bok is commentating here: https://kick.com/gmhikaru

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