Our excursion to Schwalbach ended with a drawn match. The 4:4 was hard-fought, with our problems already emerging during our journey.

Because the match day was also the day of the Frankfurt Marathon, the resulting road blocks called for well organized logistics in order to get all players from their home to the venue - a challenge that was negotiated successfully. After our clear victory in the first round, expectations were high, especially as the second team was a slight favourite according the rating averages. However, the opponents absolutely proved to be on par.

The match started with two draws on boards 1 and 8, courtesy of Peter and Dražen. Following this, Franzi downright steamrolled her opponent with a mating attack and made it 2-1. Georg also contributed half a point. In the meantime, Michael and Walter tried to live up to their being the favourites, but both were encountering stubborn resistence and eventually had to settle for draws when their position had already become slighly worse. Helmut then had the chance to seal the win, but blundered a rook in a winning position and subsequently had to save himself by perpetual check.

This, at least, had secured the fourth point. At the end, Adam eventually had to resign his endgame of same-coloured bishops with two pawns down when his tenacious resistence had eventually proved futile. Result: a 4:4 draw that appears fair with regard to the perfomances of both teams. The second team now occupies the 3rd rank of the table, and the league remains open.

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Bezirksklasse A - Round 2 - 27.10.2019 Result
  Sfr. Taunus - SC 1961 König Nied 2 4.0 : 4.0
Board Name No. DWZ ELO   Name No. DWZ ELO  
1 Siegfried Limberg 1 1859 1974 - Peter Bittner 1 1818 1870 0.5 : 0.5
2 Axel Blumenstock 2 1778 1839 - Walter Gräbner 3 1920 2034 0.5 : 0.5
3 Hans-Joachim Kreß 3 1722 1851 - Michael Dehl 2 2038 2110 0.5 : 0.5
4 Jurij Gubkin 4 1685   - Adam Wollny 5 1649   1.0 : 0.0
5 Reinhard Roth 5 1485 1854 - Franziska Prüfert 4 1658 1743 0.0 : 1.0
6 Karl Villmer 6 1681   - Georg Arnold 6 1563   0.5 : 0.5
7 Manfred Bender 7 1587 1818 - Helmut Raquet 8 1608   0.5 : 0.5
8 Fritz Geiß 8 1656 1962 - Dražen Klikić 7 1427 1504 0.5 : 0.5
Standings after round 2
Rank Team 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 TP BP
1 SV 1929 Raunheim 2 XX         6.0     5.5   4 11.5
2 Sfr. 1932 Kelkheim 2   XX     5.5     5.0     4 10.5
3 SC 1961 König Nied 2     XX         4.0   7.0 3 11.0
4 SVG 1932 Eppstein 2       XX   3.0       6.0 2 9.0
5 SC 1979 Hattersheim 2   2.5     XX       5.0   2 7.5
6 SV 1920 Kelsterbach 2       5.0   XX 2.5       2 7.5
7 Sfr. Hochheim 2.0         5.5 XX       2 7.5
8 Sfr. Taunus   3.0 4.0         XX     1 7.0
9 SC 1974 Eschborn 2 2.5       3.0       XX   0 5.5
10 SC Frankfurt West 2     1.0 2.0           XX 0 3.0