Karlsruhe chess friends
Karlsruher Schachfreunde 1853 (KSF) is the name of a Karlsruhe chess club .
The KSF was created in 1970 through the merger of the Karlsruhe Chess Club in 1853 with the Karlsruhe Chess Friends Mühlburg. It is one of the leading chess clubs in Baden .
Karlsruhe Chess Club from 1853
The Karlsruhe Chess Club (KSK) was founded on October 15, 1853. It is one of the oldest existing chess clubs in Germany. A long-distance game from 1863 has been preserved, which was played against Stuttgart. In 1880 the KSK joined the South German Chess Federation and in 1888 the German Chess Federation . The KSK was a founding member of the Baden Chess Association and organized the first Baden Chess Congress in 1911. In 1934 a game of the world championship match between Alexander Alekhine and Efim Bogolyubov was played in Karlsruhe. Even after the Second World War, the KSK remained the leading chess club in Baden.
Karlsruhe chess friends
On May 29, 1970, the KSK merged with the Karlsruher Schachfreunden Mühlburg, founded in 1935, and has had its current name ever since. The club has 168 members (as of December 2014) and takes part in general gaming operations with eight teams (upper league to entry level), and it also has a women's team (1st women's Bundesliga), a senior team and various youth teams .
Bundesliga
In the 1974/75 season , the Karlsruhe Chess Friends were a founding member of the then newly introduced four-part chess Bundesliga in the Südwest group , but were relegated as the penultimate. After the direct resurgence, the team belonged to the class until the 1979/80 season . After this season, the single-track Bundesliga was introduced, for which the Karlsruhe team did not qualify. In the 1986/87 season , the KSF played for one year in the top German division. In 1988 the KSF took part in the final round of the German Cup team championship. Since then, the first team has mostly played in the second Bundesliga , from the 2008/09 season in the Oberliga Baden, before being relegated to the Association League North Baden at the end of the 2015/2016 season and has played in this class ever since.
Women's team
In 1996 the first women's team of the KSF rose to the women's Bundesliga and belonged to this class from the 1996/97 season to the 2012/13 season . The second women's team stayed in the second division for several years.
From the 2015/16 season, the Karlsruhe women will play in the women's first division again. On May 1, 2017, they achieved a middle place with ten team points. Annmarie Mütsch , who plays for the Bundesliga team, became youth world champion in the U-16 age group in October 2018 .
Youth chess
The KSF youth team took part in the German championship for club youth teams ten times from 1986 to 1996 and was runner-up in 1992 and 1993 respectively. In 1997 the U15w team became German runners-up. In 2005 and 2006 the U12 team became German champions. A few German individual champions were also produced: In 1996 and 1998 Isabel Werner became German champion in the U20w age group, Joshua Hager German champion in the U12 age group in 2006 and Paula Wiesner German champion in the U14w age group in 2012. In 1991 the KSF received the "Green Ribbon" from Dresdner Bank for exemplary talent development.
Known players
International masters Lothar Arnold , Fred Berend , Jop Delemarre , Jovanka Houska , Inna Janowskaja , Ketino Kachiani-Gersinska , Peter Kühn , Stefan Löffler , Maia Lomineischwili , Sophie Milliet and Daniel Roos , the international correspondence chess master, play or played for the Karlsruhe chess friends Clemens Werner , the national champion Max Eisinger , the women's grandmasters Elvira Berend , Marina Manakov , Jessica Schmidt and Anna Wagener , the international women's champions Isabel Delemarre , Gundula Heinatz , Mara Jelica , Veronika Kiefhaber , Ingrid Lauterbach , Manuela Mader , Helene Mira , Anne Moingt , Annmarie Mütsch , Heather Richards , Anna Rudolph and Nellya Vidonyak as well as the international correspondence chess champion for women Birgit Schneider .
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ The results of the team and the players in the women's Bundesliga