Division I (chess) 1975/76

The 1975/76 season was the 7th season of the Allsvenskan in chess.

Events

The competitions of the preliminary round took place on October 19, November 16 and 30, 1975, January 18, February 8 and 29 and March 21, 1976. The final tournament was played from March 26 to 28, 1976.

Division I Norra

In the northern season, the first four places were close together, and in the end Vällingby Schacksällskap and SK Rockaden Stockholm occupied the two qualifying places for the final tournament before Upsala ASS and Wasa SK, which had been promoted from Division II last year . The reigning Swedish champion Solna Schacksällskap only reached fifth place, the climber from Division II Jakobsberg Schacksällskap and Södra SS had to relegate .

Closing table

Pl.	society	Sp	G	U	V	MP	Board P.
01.	Vällingby Schacksällskap	7th	5	1	1	11: 3	34.5: 21.5
02.	SK Rockaden Stockholm	7th	5	1	1	11: 3	33.0: 23.0
03.	Upsala ASS (N)	7th	4th	1	2	9: 5	33.5: 22.5
04th	Wasa SK	7th	4th	1	2	9: 5	33.0: 23.0
05.	Solna Schacksällskap (M, V)	7th	3	1	3	7: 7	27.5: 28.5
06th	Akademiska SK Uppsala	7th	1	2	4th	4:10	22.5: 33.5
07th	Jakobsberg Schacksällskap (N)	7th	1	1	5	3:11	20.0: 36.0
08th.	Södra SS	7th	1	0	6th	2:12	20.0: 36.0

decisions

	Participants in the final tournament: Vällingby Schacksällskap , SK Rockaden Stockholm
	Relegated to Division II : Jakobsberg Schacksällskap , Södra SS
(M)	Last season champions
(V)	Relay winner last season
(N)	Promoted last season

Division I Södra

The southern season again won the Lunds ASK , the second place in the final tournament secured the Lundby Schacksällskap with one point ahead of the Limhamns SK . The second team of Limhamns SK and SK Kamraterna Trollhättan had risen from Division II . While Trollhättan achieved relegation, Limhamn's second team had to relegate together with Schacksällskapet Manhem , who had taken part in the final tournament the previous year.

Closing table

Pl.	society	Sp	G	U	V	MP	Board P.
01.	Lunds ASK (V)	7th	5	1	1	11: 3	38.0: 18.0
02.	Lundby Schacksällskap	7th	4th	2	1	10: 4	34.0: 22.0
03.	Limhamns SK I. Team	7th	4th	1	2	9: 5	30.5: 25.5
04th	SS Allians Skänninge	7th	3	2	2	8: 6	29.5: 26.5
05.	SK Kamraterna Trollhättan (N)	7th	2	3	2	7: 7	27.5: 28.5
06th	Jönköpings Schacksällskap	7th	2	2	3	6: 8	25.0: 31.0
07th	Schacksällskapet Manhem	7th	2	0	5	4:10	24.5: 31.5
08th.	Limhamns SK II. Team (N)	7th	0	1	6th	1:13	15.0: 41.0

decisions

	Participants in the final tournament: Lunds ASK , Lundby Schacksällskap
	Relegated to Division II : Schacksällskapet Manhem , Limhamns SK II. Team
(V)	Relay winner last season
(N)	Promoted last season

Final tournament

The final tournament saw a clear success for Lunds ASK , who won all three competitions and only lost five board points.

Closing table

Pl.	society	Sp	G	U	V	MP	Board P.
01.	Lunds ASK	3	3	0	0	6-0	19.0: 5.0
02.	SK Rockaden Stockholm	3	1	1	1	3: 3	11.5: 12.5
03.	Vällingby Schacksällskap	3	1	1	1	3: 3	9.0: 15.0
04th	Lundby Schacksällskap	3	0	0	3	0: 6	8.5: 15.5

decisions

Swedish team champion: Lunds ASK

Crosstab

Results		01.	02.	03.	04th
01.	Lunds ASK		5	7½	6½
02.	SK Rockaden Stockholm	3		4th	4½
03.	Vällingby Schacksällskap	½	4th		4½
04th	Lundby Schacksällskap	1½	3½	3½

The championship team

1.	Lunds ASK
	Magnus Wahlbom , Kjell Krantz, Per-Inge Helmertz, Ulf Korman, Roland Thapper, Torsten Lundgren, Lennart Jönsson, Tomas Olsson, Arne Qwint, Peter Ekelund.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ schedule in Tidskrift för Schack 6/1975, p 183 (PDF, 6.87 MB, Swedish)

Web links

• Final result of Division I (PDF file; 5.4 MB) in Tidskrift för Schack 4/1976, p. 103 (Swedish)
• Results of the final tournament (PDF file; 5.4 MB) in Tidskrift för Schack 4/1976, p. 112 (Swedish)