Barmer SV 1865
The Barmer Schachverein 1865 , originally Barmer Schach-Verein , was a chess club in the town of Barmen (which was dissolved in Wuppertal in 1929 ) . Before the First World War it was one of the largest German chess clubs and played an important role in the beginnings of organized chess in West Germany.
The beginnings
As early as 1853 a "free chess association" had formed in Barmen. The development was initially overshadowed by the chess club in nearby Elberfeld . This brought the West German Chess Federation into being, which has held the so-called Rhenish chess congresses since 1861 .
The impetus to found an association in Barmen came in 1865 when the congress took place in Elberfeld. Under the co-founder and chairman Julius Asbeck, the club experienced a rapid rise and in 1869 organized the 8th Rhenish Congress. The championship tournament was won by Adolf Anderssen ahead of Johannes Minckwitz , Johannes Zukertort and Emil Schallopp .
The 1905 International Chess Congress
After the founding of the empire , the Wuppertal area and indirectly the chess club benefited from the sustained industrial boom. Shortly after the turn of the century, the Barmer Chess Club was by far the largest chess club in the Rhine Province with around a hundred members . Those in charge were now faced with the pleasant difficulty of using the funds of the ample club coffers sensibly.
On the occasion of its 40th anniversary, the chess club organized an "International Chess Congress" from August 12 to 31, 1905, which took place outside of the series of congresses of the German Chess Federation . Two master tournaments, three main tournaments, a number of side and association tournaments and, as an innovation, a special youth tournament were organized. “Barmen 1905” was probably the most elaborate chess event that took place in Germany before the First World War.
Winners of the first championship tournament were Dawid Janowski and Géza Maróczy ahead of Frank Marshall , Ossip Bernstein and Carl Schlechter . The tournament book, edited by Georg Marco , contained, among other things, a list of all "Chess friends in Germany, Holland and Austria-Hungary 1905/1906" reported by the clubs.
Further development
In the period that followed, the once excellent material possibilities were no longer given. Barmer SV 1865 reached a sporting high point shortly after the Second World War when it won the German team championship in 1949 . Richard Czaya and Baldur Hönlinger played on the first boards .
The club could not repeat this success; it was gradually becoming less important. On May 1, 1970 Barmer SV joined the chess department of the Wuppertal Police Sports Club . Its chess department then bore the name "PSV / BSV Wuppertal" for a long time. The first team of PSV / BSV played a total of seven seasons in the 1st Bundesliga , namely in the 1974/75 season, from 1976 to 1978 and in the 1979/80 season in the four-track Bundesliga as well as in the 1985/86 season and from 1995 to 1997 in the single-track 1st division.
The older Wuppertal chess tradition is continued today by the former local rival, the Elberfeld Chess Society 1851 .
literature
- Georg Marco: The international chess congress of the Barmer Chess Association 1905 , reprint Zurich 1984, ISBN 3-283-00130-8
Individual evidence
- ↑ DSB website: German Chess Association Championship 1949 ( memento of February 9, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) (there “Barmer SG 1885”). In the Festschrift by Alfred Diel ( Schach in Deutschland. Festbuch on the occasion of the 100th anniversary of the German Chess Federation 1877–1977. Rau, Düsseldorf 1977, p. 188), however, the correct name is listed ("Barmer SV von 1865" ).
- ↑ Ralf Binnewirtz and Hans-Jürgen Fresen: Committed to tradition. A bibliography of the Festschrifts of German chess clubs, founded until 1914 , Venice 2008, p. 48