Eight teams each played a simple round-robin tournament in the North, West, Southwest and South seasons . The four season winners qualified for the final round, which was held centrally over a long weekend, the seventh and eighth of each season were relegated. The North relay comprised the regional associations of Berlin, Hamburg, Lower Saxony, Schleswig-Holstein and Weser-Ems, the West relay included the Hesse and North Rhine-Westphalia regional associations, the Southwest relay consisted of the Baden, Middle Rhine, Palatinate and Saarland regional associations during the relay South associations of the state associations Bavaria and Württemberg-Hohenzollern belonged. The number of team points decided on the placement, in the event of a tie, play-off fights were played for group victory and relegation, otherwise the number of board points decided. In the final round there were generally no playoffs played, but in the event of a tie based on team points, the number of board points decided.
The Delmenhorster SK was able to qualify for the finals despite a defeat against its main competitor from Hanover, the Kiel SG and SC Concordia had to relegate, which was defeated in the tie-off for the relegation of the Hamburger SG with 2.5: 5.5.
With SG Porz , the Aachener Schachverein and the SC Kettig three clubs of the Verband Mittelrhein, with the SK Heidelberg , the Karlsruhe chess friends and the SK Mannheim-Lindenhof three clubs from Baden, and with the SK Frankenthal and the SG Saarbrücken one club each from the Palatinate and Saarland qualified. Both the decision on qualifying for the finals and relegation was only made in the playoffs. The SG Porz secured the group victory with a 4.5: 3.5 against the Heidelberger SK, while the playoff between the SK Frankenthal and the Karlsruher SF 4: 4 ended and the Berlin rating decided in favor of the Frankenthaler, so that next to the SK Mannheim-Lindenhof the Karlsruhe chess friends had to relegate.
The final round took place in Delmenhorst from December 12th to 14th. The Solingen SG 1868 won all three competitions, ahead of SG Porz, SF Marktheidenfeld and Delmenhorster SK.
