Final round of the German team championship in chess 1952
The final round of the German Chess Team Championship in 1952 took place on March 29, 1953 in Berlin .
The Munich chess club and the chess company Eckbauer Berlin competed in the final of the West German team championship in 1952 . The defending champion Munich Chess Club from 1836 also secured the title in the game year 1952/53. He thus underscored his victory from last year .
In the 1952/53 season, two intermediate rounds were played after a few preliminary rounds, one in the north and one in the south of West Germany .
Intermediate round south
The intermediate round south was held on March 14th and 15th, 1953 in Freiburg im Breisgau .
The Munich team switched the Düsseldorf Chess Society ( Georg Kieninger , Walter Niephaus , Walter Loose , Immo Engert, Heinrich Lohmann , Karl Fenske, Erwin Herber, Siegfried Heil) with 5: 3 board points and the Freiburg Chess Club ( Gottlieb Machate , Emil Joseph Diemer , Rudolf Kraus , Friedrich Kopp, Karl Wettach, Willi Best, Peter Lott, Klaus Geis) with 7: 1 points. The Düsseldorf team won 5: 3 points against Freiburg.
Intermediate round north
In the intermediate round north, the chess company Eckbauer Berlin had prevailed against the Hamburg chess club with 4.5: 3.5 board points and against Bielefeld with 5.5: 2.5 points.
Final (West German Champion 1952)
| board | Munich | Berlin | 5.5: 2.5 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Wolfgang Unzicker | Heinz Lehmann | 1-0 |
| 2 | Josef Steger | Kurt Gumprich | 0: 1 |
| 3 | Werner Kunerth | Gottfried Grohmann | 0: 1 |
| 4th | Günter Maier | Alfred Kinzel | 1-0 |
| 5 | Otto Thiermann | Tenenbaum | 1-0 |
| 6th | Karlheinz Höcht | Friedrich Vogt | 0.5: 0.5 |
| 7th | Heinz de Carbonnel | Fritz Steneberg | 1-0 |
| 8th | Paul Kieninger | Probst | 1-0 |
The championship team
| 1. | Munich SC 1836 |
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Wolfgang Unzicker , Josef Steger, Werner Kunerth , Günter Maier, Otto Thiermann, Karlheinz Höcht, Heinz de Carbonnel , Paul Kieninger |
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- Günter Maier: Munich chess club from 1836 German team champion again . Süddeutsche Schachzeitung 1953, Issue 4, pp. 58-61 (report and games)