The list of the team cadres of the German Chess League 1997/98 contains all players who were registered for the German Chess League 1997/98 with their individual results.
The maximum squad strength was reduced to 14 (8 regular players and 6 substitutes) before the season. Not all of the registered players were used. Hamburger SK and Dresdner SC got by with 10 players each, on the other hand, SG Porz, SG 1868-Aljechin Solingen, SG Bochum 31, SV Castrop-Rauxel, SK Zähringen and SVG Plettenberg put six Unite all registered players. A total of 198 players were used, 37 of whom competed in all competitions.
The best point player of the season was Thies Heinemann with 12 points from 15 games, one point less was achieved by Wolodymyr Baklan (SK Zähringen). Porzer Markus Stangl and Christian Gabriel from Solingen were 10.5 points , with Stangl playing 14 games and Gabriel 15. With David Norwood , Karl-Heinz Podzielny (both SG 1868-Aljechin Solingen), Vlastimil Hort , Lucas Brunner (both SG Porz), Pavel Blatný (Werder Bremen), Hans-Jürgen Meißner (Empor Berlin), Norbert Sehner (SV Castrop-Rauxel) and Wolfgang Kaiser (SK Passau) achieved eight players 100%, with Norwood and Hort playing four games each, Blatný, Brunner and Meißner each two, Podzielny, Sehner and Kaiser one each.
As in the previous season, Wolfgang Unzicker (1925-2006) from Duisburg was the oldest player and Luke McShane (* 1984) from Erfurt was the youngest player.
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 1997); 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 (DWZ): Elo number at the beginning of the season (rating list from July 1997); For players without an Elo rating, the DWZ (if available) is given in brackets
Nation: Nationality according to the rating list from July 1997; ARM = Armenia, AUT = Austria, BIH = Bosnia and Herzegovina, BLR = Belarus, BUL = Bulgaria, CRO = Croatia, CZE = Czech Republic, DEN = Denmark, ENG = England, ESP = Spain, FRA = France, GEO = Georgia , GER = Germany, GRE = Greece, HUN = Hungary, IRL = Ireland, ISR = Israel, ITA = Italy, LAT = Latvia, LTU = Lithuania, MDA = Moldova, NED = Netherlands, POL = Poland, RUS = Russia, SLO = Slovenia, SUI = Switzerland, SVK = Slovakia, SWE = Sweden, UKR = Ukraine, YUG = Yugoslavia
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)
PSV Duisburg reported Deep Blue to the top board , but this report was rejected.
Heiko Kummerow's IM norm was achieved from 12 games.
Henrik Rudolf's Eloperformance would have been enough to meet an IM standard, but there were only two IMs among his opponents (4 would have been needed).
