SV Wattenscheid
The chess club Wattenscheid 1930 is a chess club from the Bochum district of Wattenscheid . One of the club's greatest successes was winning the German championship in blitz chess in 2005.
Founding years
The association was founded on July 23, 1930. The founding and first club bar was the then Hotel Zum Adler on the corner of Oststrasse and Saarlandstrasse in downtown Wattenscheid. The founding members were Peter Koster, Ernst Rosendahl, Heinz Seideneck and Fritz and Matthias Wittlich. In the year it was founded, the number of members rose to 30, and games in the Bochum chess district could begin.
The Wattenscheider players Ernst Rosendahl (1930) and Theo Fontein (1931) won the Wattenscheider city championship, Karl Schmitt (1930) the district championship.
The first phase of the association's activity was only brief, however: it came to a complete standstill in 1933, but then revived in the mid-1930s with a membership of 45. There was no club activity during the Second World War .
Post-war years
The re-establishment took place in the post-war period in September 1945. The venue was the pub Steinke , An der Papenburg. 1 chairman of the association was Fritz Wittlich, from 1948 Max Pernecker. In 1948 the youth department was also founded. The players in the youth department came from the school chess group of the Märkische Schule , which was Wattenscheid's boys' high school . The responsible teacher was Reinhard Cherubim (1906–1980). Cherubim was also the club's best player in the 1950s: between 1948 and 1960, apart from one interruption, he won all Wattenscheid city championships and Bochum district individual championships. In the 1950s to 1960s, the venue was initially the Wintergarten restaurant on Weststrasse, then the Wattenscheid train station restaurant .
The youth team became youth team champions of the chess district twenty times in a row from 1953 to 1972. The strongest youth player in Wattenscheid in the 1960s was Dieter Buchenthal. After Max Pernecker resigned as chairman of the association in 1964 for reasons of age, Reinhard Cherubim took over the chairmanship for two years as an interim solution. The new chairman from 1966 to 1972 was Günter Schäfer, then Hans Wippich, who had played for the club since 1930. Otto Lange, after whom a rapid chess tournament of the club is named, became patron .
Through the mediation of Martin Schlitte, a new clubhouse was found in the east of Wattenscheid: the Ludwig-Steil-Haus of the Protestant parish. The first team rose in 1974 from the association league to the regional league, played in 1979 in the NRW class and 1980 in the NRW league, the third-highest German division. In 1981 Wattenscheid rose to the 2nd division . The youth team played in 1983 for the first time in the highest youth division, the NRW youth league.
Martin Schlitte was president in the 1980s. For the 60th anniversary of the club in 1990, the former world chess champion Michail Tal was signed up for a simultaneous chess performance against 40 opponents in the Sparkasse Wattenscheid.
In the 1987/88 season Wattenscheid played for the first time in the top German division, the German Chess League . On the first board in the season played Hans Hermes man, the best Elo -Leistung had Ralf Schlehöfer. The team was relegated from bottom of the table. From 1998 to 2014, Wattenscheid was consistently first class. In 2014 the first men's team withdrew from the Bundesliga, today the team plays in the third-class NRW-Oberliga.
In 2005 the team in Wattenscheid won the German championship in blitz chess with the line-up of Peter Heine Nielsen , Alexander Rustemow , Ralf Appel , Volkmar Dinstuhl and Timo Sträter.
The Wattenscheider women's team played for one season, 2012/13 in the top German division, the women's Bundesliga, but immediately rose again with 0:22 team points. Clara Wirths played for Wattenscheid on the first board in the Bundesliga, while Regina Büchle was the player with the highest rating.
The current 1st chairman is Veit Kempen. The venue for team fights of the 1st team is the auditorium of the Pestalozzi secondary school in Wattenscheid. The clubhouse and venue for the women's team and the other teams is the St. Pius meeting place on Stresemannstrasse.
literature
- 60 years of the Wattenscheid chess club 1930. Commemorative publication for the 60th anniversary. March 1990
Web links
- Website of the SV Wattenscheid
- Wattenscheid's Bundesliga statistics at Caissa Schach-Magazin ( Memento from December 9, 2010 in the Internet Archive )
Individual evidence
- ^ The SV Wattenscheid says goodbye on schachbundesliga.de, June 27, 2014, accessed on June 8, 2017
- ↑ 22nd German Blitz Team Championship 2005