ASK Winterthur

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The ASK Winterthur (written out workers chess club Winterthur ) was a chess club from Winterthur that was founded in 1921 and merged with the chess society Winterthur in 2015 . The club took part in the Swiss Group Championships (SGM) in the 1st Bundesliga and became Swiss champions there in 1984, 1985, 1986, 1987, 2000 , 2003 , 2009 , 2012 and 2015 . The club's clubhouse was the Alte Kaserne , a cultural center in Winterthur.

The workers 'chess section from Winterthur was one of the founders of the Swiss workers' chess federation in September 1922 .

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Individual evidence

  1. ^ Association history. In: sgwinterthur.ch. Accessed December 1, 2019 .
  2. ^ Dominique Marcel Fankhauser: The Workers' Sport Movement in Switzerland 1874-1947 . Contributions and controversies on the social question in sport. LIT Verlag, Münster 2010, ISBN 978-3-643-80061-9 , p. 89 .