Allsvenskan (chess)

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The Allsvenska Series ( Allsvenskan ) is the Swedish team championship in chess .

organization

Divisions

The Allsvenskan is divided into five divisions, namely the Elitserien , the Superettan , the Division I , the Division II and the Division III. Game operations below Division III are the responsibility of the districts. The Elitserien and the Superettan each contain a season with 10 teams, the other classes several parallel seasons with 8 teams each, divided according to geographical criteria, namely Division I four seasons, Division II eight seasons and Division III a maximum of 16 seasons.

Regulations

The Allsvenskan is generally played with teams of eight, with the exception of Season 1 of Division III, which is reserved for the Norrland teams, in which teams of four are played. Instead of pure club teams, syndicates of several clubs can compete, but these are not eligible to play in the elite series. A simple round-robin tournament is played in each season ; the final placement is determined first by the number of team points (two points for a win, one point for a draw, no point for a defeat), then the number of board points (one point for a winning game, half a point for a draw game, no point for a losing game).

The team line-ups must always be based on the level of play, but a player may only be placed two boards higher or lower. A team may use a maximum of two foreigners per competition. Special rules apply in this regard to clubs from Åland (only players residing in Åland are considered residents) and to clubs from Haparanda , for which players residing in Tornio are treated equally with Swedish players.

The cooling-off time is 90 minutes for the first 40 moves and 30 minutes until the end of the game; From the first move on, each player also receives a time credit of 30 seconds per move until the end of the game. A club may be represented by a maximum of one team in the Elitserien, in the other classes several teams of one club are eligible to participate.

As a rule, the winner of each relay moves up to the next higher class, while the last two move down, but the following exceptions are provided:

  • The first two rise from the Superettan to the Elitserien.
  • The four season winners of Division I determine two promoted to Superettan in playoffs.
  • If a season contains fewer than 8 teams, only the bottom of the table will be relegated.
  • If Division III consists of a maximum of 8 parallel relays, then only the respective bottom of the table will descend from the relays of Division II.

history

The beginnings

The Allsvenskan was first held in the 1950/51 season in the knockout system . The competitions of the seasons 1951/52 and 1952/53 were carried out in the same mode, but at the congress of the Swedish Chess Federation in 1952 it was decided to carry out the Allsvenskan from 1953 in league mode.

The teams were divided geographically into several zones, the winners of which met in the final round. In the 1950/51 season, the Allsvenskan consisted of three zones, the winners of which played a simple round-robin tournament, in 1951 it was decided at the Congress of the Swedish Chess Federation to divide the competition in 1951/52 into four zones; this rule also existed in the 1952/53 season.

In addition to pure club teams, selected teams from the districts were also permitted. In the 1950/51 season one team per district was entitled to play, in the seasons 1951/52 and 1952/53 the three largest districts ( Stockholm , Gothenburg and Mälardalen ) had the right to report two teams. However, these belonged to different zones and could only meet in the semifinals.

1953 to 1967

In 1953, an annual ascent and descent was introduced at Allsvenskan. The relays consisted of four teams each, which played a simple round-robin tournament on one weekend. Division I consisted of one squadron, from which the last two relegated to Division II, Division II of two parallel squadrons, the winners of which rose to Division I, while the third and fourth of both squadrons descended into Division III. Division III consisted of several parallel squadrons, from which a total of four teams rose to Division II.

1968 to 1987

From the 1968/69 season onwards, there were no district selection teams, but only club teams for the Allsvenskan. In the 1968/69 season, Division I was held once in four seasons with six teams each, the winners of which played the title in the knockout system. From the 1969/70 season, Division I consisted of two squadrons with eight teams each, two of which were relegated to Division II. Until 1974, the two season winners played the final of the Allsvenskan, from the 1974/75 season a final tournament was played in which the first and second of both seasons participated.

Since 1987

For the 1987/88 season, the Elitserien was introduced as the top division, in which the title of the Swedish team champion is determined in a simple round-robin tournament. Up to the 1989/90 season, the Elitserien had 8 teams, from the 1990/91 season to the 1997/98 season 10 teams and from the 1998/99 season to the 2010/11 season 12 teams. Up to the 2006/07 season, Division I was the second highest division, which was initially double-tracked and triple-tracked from the 1991/92 season, and since the 2007/08 season it has been the single-track Superettan.

See also

List of Swedish team champions in chess

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Congress report in Tidskrift för Schack 7-8 / 1952, p. 190 (Swedish, PDF file; 5.24 MB)
  2. ↑ a b Congress report in Tidskrift för Schack 8/1951, p. 187 (Swedish, PDF file; 6.4 MB)

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