SV Castrop-Rauxel

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The SV Castrop-Rauxel in 1923 (usually abbreviated as SV Castrop-Rauxel ) was a chess club from Castrop-Rauxel , North Rhine-Westphalia , Germany. The first team played from the 1993/94 season to the 2001/02 season in the German Federal Chess League . The club, founded in 1923, achieved the best Bundesliga placement in 1998/99 with 5th place.

Bundesliga

The SV Castrop-Rauxel rose in 1993 to the single-track federal chess league formed in 1980. As a newcomer, he finished eighth among the 16 teams in the league in the 1993/94 season . In the following four years 1994/95 , 1995/96 , 1996/97 and 1997/98 the placements were between the ranks seven and ten. With fifth place, the chess club achieved the best place in its Bundesliga history in the 1998/99 season . After seventh place in 1999/2000 , SV 2000/01 ended up in twelfth place, the last non-relegation place. Although Castrop-Rauxel reached tenth place in his last Bundesliga season 2001/02 , he voluntarily withdrew from the league.

The reason for the withdrawal was very likely - as with several other former Bundesliga clubs - also at SV Castrop-Rauxel in the high financial burden from the Bundesliga and the lack of sponsors. As of the end of the 2015/16 season, SV Castrop-Rauxel is in 21st place in the all-time table of the German Chess League .

Bundesliga team squad

Daniel King (here 2006), in the 1998/99 season for Castrop-Rauxel on board 4

The 14-strong team squad of the top season 1998/99 (fifth place) consisted exclusively of grandmasters (GM), international champions (IM) and FIDE champions (FM). In the order from board 1 to board 10, these were the top players

  1. Nigel Short (GM), Elo 2670
  2. Eduardas Rozentalis (GM), 2575
  3. Paul van der Sterren (GM), 2575
  4. Daniel King (GM), 2530
  5. Joseph Gallagher (GM), 2525
  6. Georg Seul (IM), 2445
  7. Michael Hoffmann (IM), 2440
  8. William N. Watson (GM), 2525
  9. Ralf Appel (IM), 2490 and
  10. Volkmar Dinstuhl (FM), 2410.

Michael Hoffmann on board seven began his chess career at SV Castrop-Rauxel in the early 1980s, was German champion in several youth classes and remained loyal to SV until he withdrew from the Bundesliga. In 2009 Hoffmann jumped the Elo 2500 and has been listed as a grandmaster on the FIDE lists since then .

Development after 2002

After the withdrawal from the 1st Bundesliga, the first team of SV Castrop-Rauxel played in the two top divisions in North Rhine-Westphalia, the Oberliga NRW and the NRW class. Well-known players who were used during this time are the Dutch Jan-Willem de Jong and Bianca Muhren . Overall, Castrop-Rauxel competed with four teams until the 2014/15 season.

On May 22, 2015, the extraordinary general assembly of SV Castrop-Rauxel and SK Herne-Sodingen decided to merge the two clubs to form SK Sodingen / Castrop 24/23 eV . The merger came into effect for the 2015/16 season.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Hartmut Metz: Matt even before the first move. Another withdrawal from the bankrupt league. In: the daily newspaper , October 31, 2003.
  2. ^ Message on the SK Herne-Sodingen website
  3. ^ Message on the website of SV Castrop-Rauxel