Bundesliga

[LawrenceCooper]

You can watch Bundesliga games here: http://bundesliga.liveschach.net/

Luke McShane, Gawain Jones, David Howell and Stewart Haslinger are all involved.

[LawrenceCooper]

Sunday's games are now underway here: http://bundesliga.liveschach.net/

and include David Howell playing against world number two Lev Aronian.

[LawrenceCooper]

Round 8 results:

Bremen 5.5-2.5 Katernberg Bd 3: GM Nazir Firman (2517) 0-1 Luke McShane
Hamburg 2.5-5.5 SG Trier Bd 2: IM Niclas Huschenbeth (2510) 0def-1 David Howell
Hamburg 2.5-5.5 SG Trier Bd 6:GM Karsten Muller (2534) 0.5-0.5 Stewart Haslinger
SC Remagen 4-4 Dortmund Bd 3: IM Thomas Henrichs (2473) 0.5-0.5 Gawain Jones

Round 9 results:

Mülheim 2.5-5.5 Bremen Bd 3: Luke McShane 1-0 GM Vladimir Potkin (2671)
SG Trier 3.5-4.5 SF Berlin Bd 2: David Howell 0-1 GM Lev Aronian (2807)
SG Trier 3.5-4.5 SF Berlin Bd 6: Stewart Haslinger 0-1 IM Ilja Schneider (2472)
Wattenscheid 5-3 SC Remagen Bd 3: Gawain Jones 0-1 GM Sebastian Bogner (2534)

I believe that Luke's 3.5/4 in the Bundesliga take his "live" rating to 2701 albeit there are six rounds left that will be played before the league is rated.

[Christopher Kreuzer]

I believe that Luke's 3.5/4 in the Bundesliga take his "live" rating to 2701 albeit there are six rounds left that will be played before the league is rated.

I posted more on this (and England chess players' performances over history) in a new thread, but wanted to point out here that McShane is indeed on the live rating list here:

http://www.2700chess.com/

43. up 13 places. McShane. England. 2701.0 +10.0. 4 games. age 28 (07.01.1984).

So that is number 43 in the world on the live ratings.

The twitter feed for 2700chess.com (this site has taken over from the earlier site that pioneered this concept) says the following: "Luke McShane is Welcome to 2700 club! Aronian after beating David Howell has 2825+, and Grachev after losing 2 games left 2700 live ratings."

[LawrenceCooper]

More Bundesliga today from 1pm and tomorrow here: http://bundesliga.liveschach.net/

Pairings include Luke McShane v Gawain Jones and Stewart Haslinger and Stephen Gordon both play for SG Trier.

Also http://batavia1920.nl/chess/live-games/ has live coverage of Mark Hebden and Keith Arkell's tournament in Amsterdam

[LawrenceCooper]

The game between Luke and Gawain ended in a draw whilst Stewart won and Stephen drew.

Today five English players are in action, David Howell is also playing for SG Trier. Live games now in progess here: http://bundesliga.liveschach.net/

In Amsterdam Mark Hebden won to move to 2/2 whilst Keith drew and is on 1/2. Their tournament continues today with live coverage from 1pm at http://batavia1920.nl/chess/live-games/

[Mike Truran]

Is it just me, or does the Bundesliga look much weaker than usual this weekend?