Summary: Regionalliga, MMM, Blitz Team Championship
In the MMM the 4th team impresses. Andrii also won his 2nd game on board 1. Despite his 10 years he took his second point at a late hour. He was, in the disadvantageous endgame, again a tactic better than his adult opponent. Also to be highlighted in the team are Linus, who has so far given up only a half point, and Maxim, who gave up only one point. The 4th team, after the team win against Bayern 9 with 3.5 to 2.5, is in 3rd place in the table with chances of promotion. Likewise the 5th team, which also won on Friday. The 2nd team acted unhappily against Eching and lost 3-5. The 3rd team again did not manage to take anything tangible apart from two board points against Bayern 7.
Regionalliga on Sunday at the Chess Academy
The 1st team celebrated a premiere; for the first time we were guests at the Chess Academy. Since things had not gone well for Zugzwang in the league so far, they wanted to leave nothing to chance and played almost with the regular team: 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8 and 14. We, by contrast, were weakened, as to make matters worse a board was missing, apart from two adults with junior players: 5, 6, 8, 9, 14, 15, -, 19. It ended clearly 5.5 to 2.5 against us, but in view of the DWZ superiority on all boards there were respectable results. After five hours’ play Matvei managed to take the full point and Antonin wrested a draw from his opponent. The further half points were taken by Namik and Leon.
Blitz team in Garching
We competed with two teams. The first team managed the group win in Class B and won 60 euros. In the final round Matvei won all his games!