Munich SC 1836
The Munich Chess Club 1836 is a chess club in Munich .
Early years
After the Berliner Schachgesellschaft and the Hamburger SK , the Munich SC 1836 is the third oldest existing chess club in Germany.
The founder and first chairman was Josef Lamberger (1766-1839), who was also an important chess book collector . In 1885 the Munich chess club initiated the formation of the first Bavarian chess federation .
In 1908, part of the world championship match between Emanuel Lasker and Siegbert Tarrasch was held in Munich. After the First World War, the club was closely associated with the Munich-based Tarrasch (and was sometimes referred to as the "Tarrasch Club").
When the Greater German Chess Federation decided in 1936 to host an unofficial chess Olympiad against the backdrop of the Summer Olympics that took place in the same year , Munich was chosen as the venue because the date coincided with the centenary of the Munich Chess Club. The event was later repeated in official form together with the German Chess Federation when the 1958 Chess Olympiad took place in Munich.
Success in the post-war period
In the post-war period, the club won the German team championship eight times in two four-year series of victories from 1951 to 1954 and 1962 to 1965 . The most famous player of this time was Wolfgang Unzicker , who remained loyal to the club until 1987. The then national record champion rose in 1975 from the four-track chess Bundesliga that had been founded a year earlier .
Later, the MSC was able to build on earlier successes in part. From 1982 to 1996 the club played in the German Chess League, where it took third place in 1990 and 1993, with Gerald Hertneck at the top and as club chairman.
Modern times
After that, however, the development was in decline: numerous top, but also amateur chess players left the club, which disappeared into sporting insignificance.
Then, from around 2010, there was again a consolidation and an increase in members. In the 2013/2014 season, the MSC played nationally again for the first time and reported four teams and around 35 members.
In autumn 2016, the MSC merged with SK Siemens München e. V., whereby the club name SK Siemens disappeared and the club name of the MSC remained unchanged.
For the 2019/2020 season, the MSC is registered with the English grandmaster Gawain Jones on the top board in the 2nd Bundesliga.
Individual evidence
- ↑ Wolfgang Kamm: Siegbert Tarrasch, Life and Work . Unterhaching 2004, p. 726f. ISBN 3-933105-06-4 .
- ↑ Munich team championship
- ^ The MSC 1836 at the German Chess Federation
- ↑ Siemens goes into the MSC
- ↑ Team line-up 2019/2020
- ↑ 2nd Bundesliga season east 2019/2020
literature
- Munich Chess Club: 125 years of the Munich Chess Club 1836-1961 . Self-published, Munich 1961.