Lower Saxony Chess Association

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The Lower Saxony Chess Association (NSV) was founded on November 8, 1924 in Hanover and has its headquarters there. It is one of 17 regional associations of the German Chess Federation . The NSV consists of 6 districts with over 200 clubs in Lower Saxony .

structure

The Lower Saxony Chess Association consists of six districts:

Outstanding players

The currently best Lower Saxony players by rating are (as of November 24, 2011) Grandmaster Viktor Kortschnoi († 2016) (SV Lingen, 2552), International Master Maarten Solleveld ( Tempo Göttingen , DWZ 2491), IM Alexander Markgraf (Tempo Göttingen, 2485 ), GM Lev Gutman (SV Lingen, 2456) and IM Alexander Bangiev (PSC Hannover, 2393). The best players are Helene Romakin (SK Lehrte, 2010), Marine Zschischang (SK Lehrte, 2006) and Jasmin Laake (SK Leehre, 1986).

Over the years, some world-class players have also made stops in Lower Saxony, for example the world chess champions Anatoli Evgenjewitsch Karpow (Stadthagen) and Alexander Valerjewitsch Chalifman (Stadthagen).

Classification

The Lower Saxony Chess Association forms a team game with the State Chess Association of Bremen . The highest division is the regional league , which is played in the North (Bremen and districts IV, V and VI) and South (district I, II, III). This includes the association league in the squadrons North (Bremen and District IV), West (District V and VI), East (District II and III) and South (District I). Below the game operations of the Lower Saxony Chess Association follow the top division of each of the six districts as well as the Bremen City League and other subdivisions.

Above the regional league are the Oberliga Nord (Season West) , the 2nd Bundesliga and the 1st Chess Bundesliga .

President of the NSV

president Period
1924-1941 Otto foot
1941-1945 Egon Ohms
1947-1951 Hermann gap
1951-1957 Erwin Kabitz
1957-1958 Hermann gap
1958-1963 Heinz Hohlfeld
1963-1966 Rudolf Seebass
1966-1972 Heinz Hohlfeld
1972 Horst Klostermann
1972-1988 Rudolf Seebass
1978 Gerhard Willeke
1978-1991 Rudolf Seebass
1991-1993 Heinz-Jürgen Gieseke
1993-2000 Joachim Hagemann
2000-2005 Manfred Tietze
2005-2007 Detlef Wickert
since 2007 Michael S. Langer

literature

  • Gerhard Willeke: 75 years of Lower Saxony Chess Association eV alfa-Druck, Göttingen 1999.

Web links

Remarks

  1. a b c d Some clubs from the districts of Cuxhaven, Diepholz, Verden and Wesermarsch have joined the Bremen State Chess Federation.
  2. An association from the district of Diepholz has joined the Chess Federation of North Rhine-Westphalia.
  3. a b c Some associations from the districts of Diepholz, Emsland and Osnabrück have joined the district V Oldenburg-Ostfriesland.
  4. Some associations from the Hameln-Pyrmont district have joined District I Hanover.
  5. A club from the district of Göttingen has joined the Hessian Chess Association.
  6. A club from the Lüneburg district has joined the Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania state chess association.
  7. a b All clubs from the Osterholz district and the city of Delmenhorst have joined the Bremen State Chess Federation.