The list of the team cadres of the German Chess League 1981/82 contains all players who have played at least one game in the German Chess League 1981/82 .
The 16 clubs were allowed to register a maximum of 12 substitute players in addition to 8 regular players, but not all of the registered players were also used. With 10 players, SG Bochum 31 , FC Bayern Munich , Hamburger SK in Hamburger SV and SK Johanneum Eppendorf came out, most of the players were VfL Sindelfingen and TB Erlangen , namely 15. In total in the 1981 season / 82 186 players were used, 49 of whom competed in all competitions. 18 of these 49 players had also taken part in all competitions in the 1980/81 season and thus never missed a round of the single-track Bundesliga.
A club was allowed to use two foreigners per competition, but not all clubs made use of this right; as in the 1980/81 season, a total of 10 foreigners were deployed. While the Soviet ex-world champion Boris Spasski , the US-American Lubomir Kavalek (both Solingen SG 1868), the Czechoslovak Vlastimil Hort , the Icelandic Guðmundur Sigurjónsson (both SG Porz), the Dane Jens Ove Fries Nielsen (Favorite Hammonia), the Swede Harry Schüssler (SG Bochum 31), and New Zealander Murray Chandler (Hamburger SK in Hamburger SV) had already played in the Bundesliga in the previous season, the Finn Heikki Westerinen (Solingen SG 1868), the Englishman Tony Miles (SG Porz) and the Dutchman Gennadi Sosonko made her Bundesliga debut.
Peter Ostermeyer from Porzer scored the most points with 13 points from 15 games, while his team-mate Helmut Reefschläger was only slightly behind him with 12 points from 15 games. Frankfurt's Matthias Steinbacher won all eight games he played and was the only player to achieve 100% in the 1981/82 season.
The youngest players of the season were Michael Autenrieth (born in 1964) and Luis Martin-Sommerfeldt (Favorite Hammonia), the oldest player was Herbert Heinicke (1905-1988) , who played for Favorite Hammonia . Heinicke played his last Bundesliga game on June 6, 1982, at the age of 77 years and 84 days, he remained for a long time the oldest player ever to play in the Bundesliga. Only on December 5, 2014, Wolfgang Uhlmann , who was 79 years and 251 days old at the time, was an older player in the Bundesliga.
Legend
The tables below contain the following information:
No .: Ranking list number
Title: FIDE title at the beginning of the season (rating list from July 1981); GM = Grand Master , IM = International Master , FM = FIDE Master , WGM = Grand Master of Women, WIM = International Master of Women, WFM = FIDE Master of Women
Elo: Elo number at the beginning of the season (rating list from July 1981)
Nation: Nationality according to the rating list from July 1981; CSR = Czechoslovakia, DEN = Denmark, ENG = England, FIN = Finland, GER = Federal Republic of Germany, ISL = Iceland, NED = Netherlands, NZL = New Zealand, SWE = Sweden, URS = Soviet Union, USA = United States
G: number of winning games
R: Number of draw games
V: number of losing games
Pkt .: Number of points achieved
Games: Number of games played
Elo performance: tournament performance of players with at least 5 games (calculated with Swiss Chess)
It cannot be said for sure whether the individual balances contain non-fighting games.
The tables only contain the names of the players used.
The ranking list actually reported may differ from the one shown in individual cases.
The first names of the players M. Scheve (Düsseldorfer SG Rochade), HD Pralle (SK Zähringen) and H. Weißenburger (VfL Sindelfingen) could not be determined.
