SV 03/25 Koblenz
The SV 03/25 Koblenz is a chess club from Koblenz .
History before 1945
Shortly after 1815, several "chess circles" existed in succession in the Prussian administrative and garrison town, but they could not develop into regular clubs. After the brief establishment of a chess club in 1883/84 by the Baltic German Dr. Adalbert von Wachhausen did not found the Coblenz Chess Club , which still exists today, until 1903, under the chairmanship of the businessman Fritz Bertram.
Among the founding members of this real honorary association were, among others, the Rhenish beetle and fauna researcher Justizrat Karl Röttgen, the later Reich Minister Karl Theodor von Guérard, the long-time Koblenz doctor Dr. Dr. Keller and the Germany-wide known tuberculosis doctor Dr. Oskar Salomon. After the defeat in 1918, the first chairman, Rudolf Nonne (1920–1936) not only reorganized the club, but also founded the Middle Rhine Chess Federation on May 23, 1920 in Bad Ems . In 1925, the Koblenz-Lützel chess club was founded as one of the then numerous suburban clubs. Some of the strongest Rhenish amateur players at the time came from Koblenz: Otto Walter (1947 co-founder of SVg Lasker-Steglitz Berlin) became champion of the Middle Rhine in 1930 and second in the "Rhine Championships", which could also be described as West German amateur championships. Georg Stein crowned his career, which was decorated with many regional championships, in 1951 with the GDR championship. The Rhineland championships in 1948 and 1950 were won by the multiple city champion Max Lungmuß; that of 1951 by Dr. Walter Everything; 1952 won there the multiple city champion Armand König. During the time of National Socialism, the club lost its Jewish and Communist members, and from 1939 gaming was organized by the KdF organization Schachgemeinschaft Deutsches Eck .
History after 1945
After modest beginnings under the restrictions of the French occupation, the old members of SV Lützel 1925 and SC Koblenz 1903 merged under the name SV 03/25 Koblenz in the old independent chess federation Rhineland. After its end, the teams of SV 03/25 did not play in the Hessian Chess Association until 1959 , but in the new Mittelrheinischen Chessverband , whose area comprised the northern part of the federal state of Rhineland-Palatinate (Koblenz to Trier) and the southern part of North Rhine-Westphalia . Since then, the first team has always played at least in the Oberliga Mittelrhein (until 1974 the highest league in the old Federal Republic).
Through systematic youth work, after the chess organizational integration in Rhineland-Palatinate, the promotion to the four-part Bundesliga (group southwest) soon followed. In 1976 and 1977, FM Jörg Weidemann and IM Dario Dončević won the German A youth championship one after the other and the youth team achieved good positions at German championships several times up until the 1980s; 1980 also the German school chess team championship of the Koblenz Eichendorff-Gymnasium (among others with IM Klaus-Jürgen Schulz and FM Dr. Thomas Bohn). After a few setbacks, they were promoted to the one-piece 1st Bundesliga in 1982 , which they remained in until 1994 while the 2nd team played in the 2nd Bundesliga Southwest. Significant individual successes of the small club (40 members in 2017) at national level included numerous participations in German individual championships (IM Schulz, IM Dončević, Volker Schlick, FM Thomas Brückner), the Dähne Cup championship by IM Schulz in 1983, and the German lightning championship by IM Georg Seul 1987 and the D-youth championship of the later international master Michael Hammes 1987. Although at the beginning of the 1990s two world-class grandmasters, Michail Gurewitsch (Russia / Belgium) and Eduardas Rozentalis , the strong amateurs could not avoid relegation in 1994 . Since then, the 1st team has been commuting between Oberliga Südwest and 2nd Bundesliga West, which the club was last promoted to in the 2017/18 season.
