The 16 clubs were allowed to register 8 regular players and a maximum of 6 substitute players. Not all of the registered players were used. SF Neukölln and SC Viernheim got by with 11 players each, while at SG Porz, PSV Duisburg and SK Zähringen all registered players played at least one game. A total of 202 players were used, 36 of whom did not miss a competition.
The most successful player of the season was Rustam Kasimjanov (SG 1868-Aljechin Solingen) with 12 points from 13 games, Curt Hansen (SG Porz) achieved one point less (from 15 games played ). With Jan Lauzeningks (SV Wattenscheid) and Bernd Schneider (SG 1868-Aljechin Solingen) two players achieved 100%, with Lauzeningks playing two games and Schneider one.
Once again, 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 1998); 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 1998); For players without an Elo rating, the DWZ (if available) is given in brackets
Nation: Nationality according to the rating list from July 1998; ARM = Armenia, AUS = Australia, BIH = Bosnia and Herzegovina, BUL = Bulgaria, CRO = Croatia, CZE = Czech Republic, DEN = Denmark, ENG = England, ESP = Spain, FRA = France, GER = Germany, HUN = Hungary , ISR = Israel, ITA = Italy, LAT = Latvia, LTU = Lithuania, MDA = Moldova, NED = Netherlands, NOR = Norway, POL = Poland, ROM = Romania, RUS = Russia, SLO = Slovenia, SUI = Switzerland, SVK = Slovakia, SWE = Sweden, UKR = Ukraine, USA = United States, UZB = Uzbekistan, 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)
