Austrian Chess Federation
| Austrian Chess Federation | |
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| Founded | 1920/1946 |
| Place of foundation | Vienna |
| president | Christian Hursky |
| societies | 500 |
| Members | 15,000 |
| Homepage | http://www.chess.at |
The Austrian Chess Federation (ÖSB), based in Graz, is the umbrella organization for chess players in Austria .
The ÖSB was established in 1946 after the older Austrian Chess Federation lost its independence with the German occupation of Austria . The chess federation referred to the year 1920 as the original founding date when it celebrated its 80th anniversary in 2000.
organization
Around 400 chess clubs across Austria are organized in the chess federation . According to the rating list , around 10,000 players belong to the Austrian clubs. The chess clubs of each federal state are grouped together in their respective state association. All nine regional associations are full members of the ÖSB.
The federal board of the chess federation comprises the presidium of the chairmen of the nine regional associations and the heads of the commissions for technical questions, training, competitive and popular sports as well as communication and marketing. The politician and cultural functionary Kurt Jungwirth has been president since 1971, and he has shaped the activities of the chess federation in many ways during his long term in office. Walter Kastner is the general secretary.
The official organ of the ÖSB has been the magazine Schach Aktiv since 1981 .
History of the Chess Federation
In the 19th century after 1870 several attempts to found an Austrian chess federation failed. The center of chess life was the wealthy Viennese chess club . A second chess center existed in Graz . The Austro-Hungarian Chess Federation , which was founded in 1890 on the occasion of a chess congress in Graz , stopped its activities again in 1892 due to a lack of interest. Only in the army was there a nationwide chess association.
Only after the First World War did the efforts lead to success. On December 12, 1920, the Austrian Chess Association was founded in the Hotel Palace in Vienna . At the beginning he belonged to 22 clubs. The first president was Josef Krejcik , who tried to boost Austrian chess life in the interwar period. The federation belonged to the world chess federation FIDE since 1926.
Political turmoil hampered development. The workers' chess federation under Josef Hanacik split off from the chess federation in 1925. In the civil war atmosphere of 1934, the workers' chess federation was dissolved. After Austria was annexed to the German Empire, the Austrian Chess Association joined the Greater German Chess Federation as a regional association .
After the war, a unified Austrian Chess Federation was founded at the end of 1946 , whose first president was Josef Hanacik . His successor, Franz Cejka , who also came from Vienna, headed the association between 1952 and 1971. After his death, Kurt Jungwirth was elected in 1971 and has since headed the ÖSB.
In 2011 he celebrated his 40th anniversary as President of the ÖSB, making him one of the longest serving sports officials in Austria. Outside Vienna, the federal states began to play a bigger role. This development was also expressed in the fact that the Chess Federation with President Jungwirth moved its headquarters from Vienna to Graz in 1971.
In 2017, Jungwirth, almost 88 years old, resigned from the office of President of the ÖSB. He was succeeded in June of the same year by Christian Hursky, who had previously been chairman of the Vienna Regional Association.
Championships
The Austrian Chess Association had already organized championship tournaments from 1929 onwards, in which, however, professional players did not take part. In 1936 Erich Eliskases won against Rudolf Spielmann in a first official competition for the title of Austrian champion 5.5: 4.5 (2: 1, = 7). Eliskases also won the rematch in 1937, which also went over ten games (2-0, = 8). Both competitions took place at Semmering .
The ÖSB has been organizing state championships on a regular basis since 1947. The record champion is Nikolaus Stanec , who has won a total of ten titles since 1995.
A team competition has been held since 1975 , in which the strongest clubs in Austria take part. The top division is the Bundesliga (until 2003: State League A ).
See also
Web links
- Austrian Chess Federation (ÖSB)
- Chess in Austria, yesterday - today - tomorrow Documentation of the ÖSB
- Archive of the Bundesliga / State League Archive of the ÖSB with reports and games
Individual evidence
- ↑ A short self-presentation of the ÖSB, see here
- ↑ http://www.chess.at/schachbund/allgemeines.html
- ^ Otto Borik , Joachim Petzold : Meyers Schachlexikon . Meyers Lexikonverlag, Mannheim 1993, p. 198. ISBN 3-411-08811-7
- ↑ Kurt Jungwirth in Österreichischer Schachbund: Chess in Austria, yesterday - today - tomorrow (accessed on December 2, 2012)
- ↑ 20th Styrian Youth Chess Olympiad on "Das Land Steiermark" Youth Chess