German Correspondence Chess Federation
| German Correspondence Chess Association V. | |
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| Founded | August 25, 1946 |
| Place of foundation | Frankfurt am Main |
| president | Stephan Busemann |
| Association headquarters | Hamburg |
| Homepage | www.bdf-fernschachbund.de |
The German Fernschachbund e. V. ( BdF ) is the national correspondence chess federation in Germany. He organizes the game operations in German correspondence chess and is the publisher of the correspondence chess magazine Fernschachpost .
Game operation
Promotion tournaments
The most important tournaments for individual players are the promotion tournaments, which can entitle them to participate in the final round of the German correspondence chess championship. Promotion and relegation rules are specified for the following classes:
- Open class
- Main tournament class
- Master class
In each class tournaments with seven or eleven participants (large tournament) are organized.
Place 1 below the master class entitles you to advance to the next higher class. In the case of a shared first place, both will advance if they have scored at least 75 percent of the possible points. If less than 75 percent, both players acquire a semi-qualification . Two half-qualifications also entitle you to promotion.
If you achieve less than a third of the possible points, you have to relegate to the lower class. The same applies to all last-placed players in tournaments that start on January 1, 2007.
Anyone who registers for a promotion tournament for the first time always starts in the entry class, the open class. Anyone who can prove special successes in chess - for example an international master in close-up chess - can apply to enter a higher class.
German championship
If you win a major tournament or a tournament with seven participants in the master class, you are entitled to take part in the preliminary round of a German championship. You can also take part in the preliminary round if you have at least a correspondence chess number (FWZ) of 2225 or an ICCF Elo number of 2350. The winner of a preliminary group is qualified for a final round and receives the title of German master , analogous to the previous national championship titles in local chess .
The previous winners of the championships are listed in the list of German champions in correspondence chess .
Special and team tournaments
In addition to the promotion tournaments, the German Correspondence Chess Federation also offers other tournaments:
- General tournaments - Here players of all levels meet "just for fun", promotion and relegation is not possible.
- Themed tournament - One or more opening moves are mandatory.
- Cup tournaments
- Memorial tournaments
- Senior tournaments
- Youth and junior tournaments
- Women's championships
- Pyramid game
- Country battles against other nations
- Engine banned tournaments
- Team tournaments - Several divisions were introduced here in the mid-1990s, with the 1st Correspondence Chess Bundesliga being the highest class
- Tournaments and championships in Chess960.
International promotion tournaments
The International Correspondence Chess Federation ICCF offers a similar class structure . He organizes promotion tournaments on a world level. While the player used to be able to switch between national and international tournaments, this is no longer possible after a tournament reform on an international level. Anyone who was eligible to play in the main tournament class of the German Correspondence Chess Federation before the reform was also allowed to compete in the main tournament class at world level - and vice versa. At the world level, however, the allocation is now based on the Elo number in correspondence chess. At the European level, the tournaments have been replaced by a European championship based on the class structure.
history
It was founded on August 25, 1946 in Frankfurt am Main under the name Arbeitsgemeinschaft deutscher Fernschachfreunde . The first president was Edmund Adam . In 1947 one joined the World Correspondence Chess Federation ICCF (which at that time was still called IFSB). In July 1951 first appeared after the Second World War, the monthly magazine again correspondence chess , from 1992 Correspondence Chess International called.
From 1952 the organization called the Bund deutscher Fernschachfreunde (BdF) . All-German tournaments were held until 1959, after which the correspondence chess players of the GDR split off. After reunification, the GDR players were reintegrated into the BdF.
On September 1, 1991, the name was again changed to Deutscher Fernschachbund (BdF) . On September 1, 2006, the German Correspondence Chess Federation joined the German Chess Federation .
In October 2007, the association was entered in the register of associations of the Hamburg district court (register number VR 19586). Since then he has had the suffix “e. V. ".
Members
The German Correspondence Chess Federation achieved its highest membership in 1991 with more than 8000. Since then this number has declined, it sank to 3000 at the end of 2005. The reasons included demotivation due to the use of computers and competitive events by other associations, but especially the lack of necessary ones Reforms. After their implementation, the decline in membership was stopped and their number rose again. Special tournaments, in which the use of computers is prohibited, address the problem of demotivation due to the use of computers.
Remote chess server
The German Fernschachbund e. V. operates its own remote chess server, the BdF chess server.
International success
The German Fernschachbund e. V. was particularly successful at the Olympics. Most recently, the Olympic team of the German Fernschachbund e. V. Winner in the final of the 18th correspondence chess Olympiad and thus team world champion.
The best result in the 18th final for the German gold team was achieved by the reigning vice world champion Matthias Kribben , the leader in the German Elo ranking and fourth in the world ranking. Kribben won four games and increased the score in his 44 Olympic appearances for Germany to 18 wins with 26 draws and zero defeats! The newcomer to the team, the multiple World Cup winner Reinhard Moll, achieved three wins. Chess publisher Arno Nickel contributed two winning games to the Olympic gold medal, and Maximilian Voss and Hans-Dieter Wunderlich achieved one victory each. Peter Hertel drew all games and so the German team remained undefeated in all 72 games, a novelty in an Olympic final.
After the legendary 10th Olympiad, in which the GDR won the bronze medal in 1994, the (then united) German Olympic team with first Achim Soltau and then Matthias Kribben at the top has written an unprecedented success story over the past 20 years:
- 11th to 14th Olympiad: each gold
- 15th and 16th Olympiad: each silver
- 17th and 18th Olympiad: each gold
With the sixth gold medal, the Deutsche Fernschachbund e. V. now even overtakes Russia (or Soviet Union) in the all-time medal table, which already had six gold medals after 10 Olympiads, but is clearly inferior in the silver medals (1 to 4).
President
- 1946-1956: Edmund Adam
- 1956–1989: Hermann Heemsoth
- 1989–1993: Achim Soltau
- 1993–2010: Fritz Baumbach
- 2011–2017: Uwe Staroske
- since 2017: Stephan Busemann
Web links
- Official website
- BdF chess server
- Wiki of the German Correspondence Chess Federation
- Reports on correspondence chess meetings, since 1996 on the Internet by Gerhard Hund
- International title holders on the BdF website