Lübeck wins, John Nunn teaches us a lesson
19.03.2002
– The critical round of the German team championships was won by the SV Lübeck
– which consists mainly of legionary
British grandmasters. On Sunday they wrapped it up with a narrow victory over
the main rivals Solingen. Instrumental for the success was Dr John Nunn, who
won four games in a row for Lübeck. John gave us a unique insight into
chess thinking and strategy by annotating his games for us. This is a lesson
you will not want to miss. More...
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Lübeck beats Solingen for German Team Championship
The critical round took place in a spectacular location – the Town Hall
of the beautiful north German trade city of Lübeck. The two leading teams
in the German Bundesliga, the SG Solingen and SV Lübeck, played
the decisive match against each other on Sunday morning. It was clear that,
with two rounds still to go, it would be the winner of this encounter that would
take the German team championship.
Lübeck is the shooting-star team in the German chess circuit. Sponsored
by Galaxis, the manufacturers of digital settop boxes, Lübeck has
a large number of international superstars, with Alexei Shirov on board one.
But it is mainly the British players who have brought Lübeck to the top
of the German team championship. In the absence of Shirov and Bareev, both of
whom were playing in Monaco, it was left to Michael Adams, Jon Speelman, Julian
Hodgeson, John Nunn and Stewart Conquest to bring home the trophy. And bring
it home they did.
Nunn vs Lobron
The first critical game to end was the encounter John Nunn vs Eric Lobron.
John had won his previous three games for the team, and Galaxis boss Wilfried
Klimek could hardly hope for a fourth full point in succession. But just over
three hours into the round Klimek got his present from the oldest player on
his team. "John is the very greatest," he exclaimed. "Three years
ago he joined our team in the second league, he helped us to promote to the
first division, and now he is probably key to us winning the championship."
Adams vs Kasimdzhanov
Two hours later it was a fact. Speelman had lost to Jussupow, but Epishin had
beaten Nikolic. All other games were drawn, so that Lübeck went into the
decisive lead in this championship. Now barring a practically inconceivable
loss to a much weaker team Lübeck has it all wrapped up for this season.
While the round was still in progress, but after his win over Eric Lobron,
John Nunn sat down with us and annotated some of his recent games. His remarks
and explanations were videotaped and will appear at a multimedia report in the
next issue of ChessBase Magazine. They represent a wonderful lessons in chess
thinking and strategy. A sample is given in the annotated game Nunn-Lobron below.
Naturally it does not include the video footage, but John's remarks have been
faithfully transcribed and are included as text annotation. Note that you can
click any position in the notation to jump to the relevant position on our Javascript
board.
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