SK Zehlendorf

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The Zehlendorf chess club (short: SK Zehlendorf ) is a chess club from the Berlin district of Steglitz-Zehlendorf , Zehlendorf district . It was founded in 1947. 1st chairman is currently (2019) Helmut Flöel.

In 1962, the club achieved its best result in team chess with third place in the German championship . In 1982 the Chess Club Südwest and in 1988 the Zehlendorfer Königsjäger split off from SK Zehlendorf. While the split-off clubs felt more connected to popular sport , the SK Zehlendorf tried to gain a foothold by engaging several top players in competitive sport , which the 1st team in 1983 with promotion to the 2nd Bundesliga and further promotion in 1985 to the single-track Bundesligaalso succeeded. However, the club was never able to establish itself in the first division and rose there, with a total of six years of affiliation between 1985 and 2008, regularly as a promoter immediately. Despite the use of the former world chess champion Michail Tal on the 1st board and another grandmaster , Krunoslav Hulak , on the 2nd board, the team only finished 14th and thus a relegation place in the 1989/90 season . The first women's team played in 1993/94 for one season in the Bundesliga.

history

The club was founded on May 18, 1947 under the name Schachgesellschaft Süd-West (Zehlendorf). Founding chairman and first chairman until 1953 was Erich Stüber (born January 18, 1891 - March 31, 1965), who was also the first chairman of the Berlin Chess Federation from 1951 until his death in 1965 and vice-president of the German Chess Federation from 1955 . By the 1960s at the latest, the club was called Schachklub Zehlendorf .

Biggest club success in 1962

Heinz Lehmann (IM), here in 1973, played a major role in the club's upswing.
Nigel Davies , here in 2010, played for SK Zehlendorf in the Bundesliga in 1985/86.

The first team was represented in the Berlin City League, but played no special role there until the mid-1950s. That changed when Harald Lieb joined the club , who was Berlin youth champion in 1954 and West Berlin chess champion seven times between 1963 and 1981 . Lieb played for the first team of SK Zehlendorf for over five decades, in the 2000s in the second division. He has been club champion or club cup winner over 25 times. In 2004 he was still fighting for Berlin in the final of the 6th European Senior Team Championship in Dresden.

In particular due to the strengths of Lieb and Heinz Lehmann ( IM ), who joined the club in 1958, the success curve of the 1st team increased and in 1962 resulted in third place in the German team championship , the greatest success in the club's history to date ( As of 2016). In 1964 the club was again Berlin champion before Lasker Steglitz , but could not prevail in the final round of the North German championship. Despite the general chess boom in the 1970s, the performance curve of SK Zehlendorf pointed downwards. After staying in the 1st city class and the regional league, it was not until 1977/78 that the re-entry into the supra-regional level, the Regionalliga Nord, was possible.

Amateur sport or competitive sport - spin-offs

In the 1980s there were disputes over direction within the club, which in 1982 led to the spin-off of the Chess Club Südwest and in 1988 to the spin-off of the Zehlendorfer Königsjäger . In 1992 the two separated clubs merged to form the Königsjäger Süd-West chess club .

Chess Club Southwest 1982

In the center of the dispute, the question of whether the association rather the standing grassroots or the financial and organizational becomes increasingly complex competitive sports should prescribe. As the performance concept prevailed, the members who felt committed to amateur sport left the club. According to the club's history, the conflict was sparked by the grotesque fact that in 1982 an alleged son Robert Lindner and heir of the Butter Lindner trading company appeared as a sponsor, offered money for the paid chess business and recruited top players from other clubs. When the payments were not made and the alleged heir turned out to be the nephew of the company with no assets, the players who had been signed up in the meantime could no longer change because the reporting deadlines had expired.

With reinforcements such as Klaus Lehmann, Rainer Albrecht or Klaus Zschäbitz (then Berlin champions), SK Zehlendorf immediately made it to the 2nd Bundesliga in 1983. According to the history of the club, the top players had found pleasure in the club and remained loyal to it without any prospect of payment. Even without the canceled sponsor, the club remained performance-oriented. In addition, the successes made it possible to attract more players who, like the Welsh international champion Craig Pritchett, financed their travel to and from the club themselves and sometimes lived with club members to save costs. In addition, a former club chairman and other members were ready to help the club financially. With players like Pritchett, Heinz Lehmann , Wolfgang Riedel, Harald Lieb, Herbert Kauschmann, Freerk Bulthaupt, Wilhelm Kanonenberg, Joachim Behrmann and Peter Rahls, the 1st team actually managed to climb up to the single-track federal chess league in 1985, in which they are among others Nigel Davies continued to strengthen. Nevertheless, the club rose again immediately.

Zehlendorfer Königsjäger 1988

Despite the departure of around 20 members in 1982, the dispute over the direction flared up again in 1988. Michael Riedel had set up a well-functioning children and youth group at SK and complained that too much money and commitment went into the 1st team. When he ran against the long-time chairman Freerk Bulthaupt for chairmanship at the general meeting in 1988 and was unable to assert himself, he left the association with almost all of the children, some young people and a few older members and founded the Zehlendorfer Königsjäger on May 1, 1988 . The two clubs, which were united in 1992 to form the Königsjäger Süd-West chess club, remained consistently committed to the amateur concept and played with their first team in the Berlin City League in 2015, in which SK Zehlendorf was represented with its second team. In 2016, the Königsjäger Süd-West chess club (110 members with seven teams in general play and a youth Bundesliga team) had considerably more members than SK Zehlendorf, which only had 66 members and five teams at state and federal level. At the end of the 1980s, SK Zehlendorf still had over 150 members and eight teams.

Bundesliga 1989/90 with world champion Michail Tal and subsequent years

The performance-oriented SK Zehlendorf tried to gain a foothold in the Bundesliga. In the 1987/88 season he played first class again, but rose again from the Bundesliga after only one season. In 1989, the association won its first major sponsor, the politician and entrepreneur Dietrich Bahner ( Leiser shoes ). The club, which in turn immediately achieved promotion to the first division, strengthened itself for the 1989/90 season with the former world chess champion Michail Tal on the 1st board and with Krunoslav Hulak ( GM ) on the 2nd board. Bahner made 25,000 DM available for Tal's commitment  . Nevertheless, the renewed descent could not be avoided in this attempt either.

In the 1990s, the establishment of the women's team was also successful, which in the 1993/94 season with Ingūna Erneste (WGM, Elo  2325) on the first board led to participation in the women's national chess league, which has also been single-track since 1991 , but the women's team rose straight away off again. 1995 succeeded the direct promotion, but before the beginning of the 1995/96 season , the team was withdrawn from the Bundesliga.

After further ascents and descents of the 1st team between the first and second division, Reinhard Müller, press officer of the Berlin Chess Association, stated in 2007 in the anniversary brochure on the occasion of the 60th anniversary of the club's Bundesliga philosophy:

“A club like SK Zehlendorf, which does not have such a budget as the league giants from Baden-Baden , Tegernsee or Bindlach , can only hope to be in the top German league if the players are closely tied to the club and the team is homogeneous establish. Started as an outsider in the 2007/2008 season and rated as a potential relegation by many self-proclaimed experts, SK Zehlendorf relies on a mixture of experienced old masters and up-and-coming talents in this situation. "

- Reinhard Müller: Our Bundesliga philosophy .

The mixture did not lead to the hoped-for success. SK Zehlendorf also ended its last (as of 2016) Bundesliga season 2007/08 on a relegation zone. In the 2015/16 season, the 1st team plays in the 2nd Bundesliga (North). The club's playroom is the Hans-Rosenthal-Haus senior leisure center on Bolchener Strasse.

German Chess League (overview)

General gaming operations

In its six years in the Bundesliga, the 1st team occupied the following places among the 16 teams in the league; in doing so, she went down again every season as a climber:

Hanna Ereńska-Barlo , here in 1982 at the interzonal tournament in Bad Kissingen

Michael Richter played for the SK in the second Bundesliga from July 1998. Furthermore, the four-time Berlin chess champion Jakob Meister and since 2009 Sergei Leonidowitsch Kalinitschew   (GM) were active in the 2nd division. At the end of the 2015/16 season, SK Zehlendorf was 49th among the 87 teams in the Bundesliga all-time table .

Women's team

The women's grandmasters Tatjana Jakowlewna Satulowskaja   (WGM), who played for SK Zehlendorf in the first and second leagues since 1990/91, and later the Berlin-based Hanna Ereńska-Barlo (WGM), played a major role in the success of the women's team . In the so far (as of 2016) only Bundesliga season 1993/94 , the club offered  two foreign grandmasters in the 12-man team with Ingūna Erneste (WGM, Elo 2325) on the first board and Satulowskaja (Elo 2160) on the second board. Only German players without a FIDE title were used on the remaining boards . Among the 12 teams in the Bundesliga, the SK took eleventh place. The champions of this season from the Elberfeld Chess Society 1851 , however, relied on two women grandmasters (WGM), three international masters (WIM) and one FIDE master (WIM).

Despite only having one season, the team occupies 32nd place in the all-time table of the women's Bundesliga among the 39 teams listed (as of the end of the 2010/11 season).

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Frank Hoppe: Berlin register of associations. Chess Club Zehlendorf. ( Memento from July 1, 2012 in the web archive archive.today ) Berlin Chess Association, as of December 8, 2006.
  2. ^ Bulletin of the Berlin Chess Association , April 1955
  3. ↑ a b c d Schachklub Zehlendorf, Chronicle. ( Memento from October 16, 2008 in the Internet Archive )
  4. ↑ Chess Festival Dresden. Final at the 6th European Senior Team Championship in Dresden . ( Memento of the original from August 16, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.chess-international.de
  5. ^ Frank Hoppe: Chess Club South-West. ( Memento from July 8, 2012 in the web archive archive.today ) Berlin Chess Association, as of December 8, 2006.
  6. ↑ Frank Hoppe: Zehlendorfer king hunters. ( Memento from July 9, 2012 in the web archive archive.today ) Berlin Chess Association, as of December 8, 2006.
  7. ↑ a b Freerk Bulthaupt: Small excerpt from the history register of the Schachklubs Zehlendorf e. V. In: Zehlendorf chess club: 60 years of Zehlendorf chess club . ( Memento of July 17, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) (PDF; 3.2 MB) Jubilee edition, October 2007 (brochure), pp. 11–15.
  8. ↑ Reinhard Müller: Our Bundesliga philosophy . In: Schachklub Zehlendorf: 60 years of the Zehlendorf chess club . ( Memento of July 17, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) (PDF; 3.2 MB) Anniversary edition, October 2007 (brochure), p. 23.
  9. ↑ Caissa Schach Chronicle. Women's Bundesliga. Eternal table . ( Memento from May 9, 2012 in the Internet Archive )