Chess League (Germany)
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Current season | 2018/19 |
sport | chess |
Association | German Chess Federation |
League foundation | 1980 |
Teams | 16 teams |
country | Germany |
Title holder | OSG Baden-Baden |
Record champions | OSG Baden-Baden (13) |
Website | schachbundesliga.de |
Qualification too | European Club Cup |
↓ 2nd Bundesliga (II)
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The German Chess League is the highest division in German team chess . In general gaming operations, it has existed in this form since 1980, previously it was divided into four seasons. The women's Bundesliga started in 1991. The 1st Bundesliga currently consists of 16 teams, the women's Bundesliga of 12 teams. The second highest division is the 2nd Bundesliga . Ten teams each play in four parallel seasons (there are three groups for women with eight chess teams each ). The team strength is eight boards (six boards for women).
The league is one of the strongest in the world, with strong grandmasters playing for many clubs . The reigning champion is OSG Baden-Baden , and SC Bad Königshofen for women . The record player in the German Chess League is Klaus Bischoff .
Organizational form
The German Chess Federation (DSB) brought the Bundesliga into being and was initially solely responsible for tournament regulations and administration. A committee was later created, made up of three representatives each from the associations and the DSB. On February 3, 2007, the Schachbundesliga eV was founded in Berlin in order to be able to better market the Bundesliga. The DSB is a member of the association. Christian Zickelbein was the founding president, and Markus Schäfer has been his successor since June 2009 .
Since the 2008/09 season, the German Chess League has been responsible for playing and marketing the “strongest chess league in the world”.
The game days of the German Chess League take place exclusively on weekends, i. H. Saturdays and Sundays instead. Exceptions are eight competitions that are held on a Friday. The moves of a total of 960 games are to be broadcast live on the Internet on the homepage of the German Chess League each season. At the end of each season, one team is crowned German champion and four teams are affected by relegation to the four second leagues.
16 players plus up to two youth players may be entered per team. There is no restriction on foreigners. Since the 2014/15 season, every player has 100 minutes to think about the first 40 moves and 50 minutes until the end of the game. From the first move on, each player receives a time credit of 30 seconds per move until the end of the game.
Historical review
Bundesliga
According to the decision of the DSB Congress 1973 in Trier and on the initiative of the DSB sports director Helmut Nöttger , the Bundesliga chess league was founded in 1974, although at that time it had four tracks. At the end of the season, the four winners played a final tournament for the German team championship.
In 1980 the DSB created the single-track First Bundesliga; the top four from each group were qualified for this Bundesliga. The games will be held on a total of seven weekends. Four teams, consisting of eight players, meet on a weekend and contest two competitions (Saturday afternoon and Sunday morning).
The following teams started in the first season of the single-track league:
- Qualification from group north:
- Qualification from group west:
- Qualification from group southwest:
- Qualification from group south:
Women's Bundesliga
The women's Bundesliga started in 1991 . The best six teams from the upper league of the former GDR were set: Rotation Berlin , Spvgg 1899 Leipzig , Motor Weimar , SV Chemie Guben , PSV Dresden , VdS Buna Halle . Six teams from the West German state associations qualified for this: Krefeld chess club Turm 1851 (North Rhine-Westphalia), SVg Lasker-Steglitz (Lower Saxony, Bremen and Berlin), Hamburger SK (Hamburg and Schleswig-Holstein), SC Bessenbach (Bavaria and Württemberg), TSV Schott Mainz (Baden and Rhineland-Palatinate), SV 1920 Hofheim (Hesse and Saarland). In the early days of the league, Elberfelder SG , which had been promoted in 1992, was a series winner with six championships before it withdrew from the game in 1999.
costs
Around 1990 the annual costs of the Bundesliga amounted to around one million DM , which had to be raised exclusively by the clubs involved. In 2011 Christian Zickelbein put the total budget of the 16 Bundesliga clubs at 1 million euros per season, with the two top clubs OSG Baden-Baden and Werder Bremen each accounting for around 200,000 euros.
See also
Web links
- Homepage of the Bundesliga
- Results service of the German Chess Federation
- Bundesliga and previous history ( memento from April 13, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) on schachchronik.de
- The German Chess League since 1998 with reports and pictures on TeleSchach
Individual evidence
- ↑ http://de.chessbase.com/post/bundesliga-aufstellungen-und-spielplan-160813
- ↑ German Chess Bundesliga - Women / 1998/99 season, last season and championship of the Elberfeld women.
- ↑ Tournament director Helmut Nöttger at a DSB presidium meeting according to Schach-Report / DSB / DSZ , 3/1991, p. 28.
- ^ The Hamburg chess club is threatened with mate , Hamburger Abendblatt, 25 November 2011.