SG Bochum 31
The SG Bochum 31 ( Schachgesellschaft Bochum 1931 ) is a chess club in Bochum . The club played in the German federal chess league for decades and is the German record champion of youth teams.
Beginnings of the association
The founding date of the club is March 14, 1931. The forerunner was the chess department of the Catholic young men’s club St. Liebfrauen , which had existed since 1929 . This was then temporarily a subdivision of the Chessfreunde Bochum in 1925 , before the decision was made to transform it into the new Altenbochum chess club .
For a long time, SK Altenbochum was overshadowed by other clubs in the region, especially the traditional Bochumer SV 02 . In 1961 the company moved from Altenbochum to the city center and in July 1964 it was renamed "Schachgesellschaft Bochum 1931".
Bundesliga club
Under game director Norbert Franke, the promotion to higher classes took place in the 1970s, which was associated with the then top player Otto Borik (member of the club until 1984). The SG Bochum 31 played from 1977 in the Bundesliga West and then from 1980 (with a two-year break) to 1999 in the one-piece chess Bundesliga . Already in the first season (1980/81) the Bochumers achieved their best placement with third place. The club is in sixth place in the “ Eternal League Table ”.
Well-known players from the early Bundesliga days included talents such as Lothar Nikolaiczuk , Detlef Heinbuch , Paul Backwinkel, who has been loyal to the club for decades, and Ludger Keitlinghaus . After the opening of the borders in Eastern Europe, the amateur conditions in the Bundesliga came to an end. The Bochum club also started to sign international grandmasters , including Igor Glek and Kiril Georgiew . When a sponsor jumped out, SG Bochum withdrew from the First Bundesliga after the 1998/99 season . Since then, the team has been able to assert itself successfully in the second Bundesliga. However, the supremacy in the region had to be ceded to the SV Wattenscheid .
Bochum Grand Masters Tournament (1981)
For the 50th anniversary of the club, SG Bochum hosted the “International German Championship” from March 17th to April 3rd, 1981 . This tournament of the German Chess Federation took place from 1971 to 1983, alternating annually with the national individual championship . It is the most important chess event that has ever taken place in Bochum.
The winner of the Grand Masters tournament was Lubomir Kavalek (12 out of 15) ahead of Vlastimil Hort and Murray Chandler . A total of seven grandmasters took part, including Victor Ciocâltea and Raymond Keene . The most successful German player was Otto Borik (SG Bochum) in fifth place.
German record youth champion
In total, SG Bochum 31 has six teams from the 2nd Bundesliga to the lower classes in action. There are also two youth teams. The club has played a leading role in youth chess since the 1980s. Well-known former youth players are the grandmasters Sebastian Siebrecht and Ilja Zaragatski , who played for SG Bochum in the 2nd Bundesliga until the 2008/2009 season.
With thirteen championship titles so far, the Bochum club is the most successful German youth chess club . After a four-year break, the SG Bochum was last able to win the club youth championship in 2008. Jens Kotainy , who finished second in the German U16 Championship in 2009 and won the German Cup Championship in 2011, played on the first board .
Individual evidence
- ^ Fieberg and Fresen: Chess district Bochum , p. 16
- ↑ Chronicle of the German championship titles of youth teams of SG Bochum 31 ( Memento from September 9, 2010 in the Internet Archive )
literature
- Norbert Fieberg and Hans-Jürgen Fresen: 80 years of the Bochum chess district. Festschrift , December 2007 (2nd edition)