German Chess League 2004/05 (Austria)

The 2004/05 season was the 30th season of the Austrian Chess League . Union Styria Graz , SK Mayrhofen and SK Donau were promoted from the 2nd Bundesliga .

Union Styria Graz was the only newcomer to stay in the league , while SK Mayrhofen and SK Donau had to relegate. ESV Austria Graz was added as the third relegated team .

Union Ansfelden became champions with a seven point lead, while defending champion SK Hohenems had to be content with fifth place.

For the reported team squads of the participating clubs see team squad of the Austrian 1st Bundesliga in chess 2004/05 .

Dates and venues

The competitions took place from November 19 to 21, 2004 in Graz , from January 13 to 16, 2005 in Bregenz and from March 17 to 20, 2005 in Fürstenfeld .

Closing table

Pl.	society	Sp	G	U	V	Board P.	MP
01.	Union Ansfelden	11	8th	2	1	44.5: 21.5	26th
02.	SV Schwarzach	11	8th	2	1	37.5: 28.5	26th
03.	SK Fürstenfeld	11	7th	2	2	37.0: 29.0	23
04th	Jenbach chess club	11	3	4th	4th	35.0: 31.0	13
05.	SK Hohenems (M)	11	3	3	5	33.5: 32.5	12
06th	SC The people of Klagenfurt	11	3	5	3	32.5: 33.5	14th
07th	SV Tschaturanga new building	11	3	5	3	32.5: 33.5	14th
08th.	SG Frohnleiten / Semriach	11	5	1	5	31.5: 34.5	16
09.	Union Styria Graz (N)	11	2	4th	5	31.0: 35.0	10
10.	ESV Austria Graz	11	2	2	7th	28.5: 37.5	08th
11.	SK Mayrhofen (N)	11	2	2	7th	26.5: 39.5	08th
12.	SK Danube (N)	11	3	2	6th	26.0: 40.0	11

Remarks:

• After the direct comparison did not bring a decision, the SC Die Klagenfurter is placed in front of the SV Tschaturanga new building due to the better Berlin rating ,.

	Austrian champion: Union Ansfelden
	Relegation to the 2nd Bundesliga : ESV Austria Graz , SK Mayrhofen , SK Donau
(M)	Last season champions
(N)	Promoted last season

Crosstab

Results		01.	02.	03.	04th	05.	06th	07th	08th.	09.	10.	11.	12.
01.	Union Ansfelden		5½	2½	3½	3½	4½	4½	5	3	3	4½	5
02.	SV Schwarzach	½		3	3½	3	4th	3½	3½	4th	3½	4th	5
03.	SK Fürstenfeld	3½	3		3	3½	4½	4th	3½	3½	2	4th	2½
04th	Jenbach chess club	2½	2½	3		3½	3	3	2½	3	4½	5	2½
05.	SK Hohenems	2½	3	2½	2½		2½	3	3	2½	4th	4th	4th
06th	SC The people of Klagenfurt	1½	2	1½	3	3½		3	4½	3	3	3	4½
07th	SV Tschaturanga new building	1½	2½	2	3	3	3		4th	3½	4th	3	3
08th.	SG Frohnleiten / Semriach	1	2½	2½	3½	3	1½	2		4th	4th	3½	4th
09.	Union Styria Graz	3	2	2½	3	3½	3	2½	2		4th	2½	3
10.	ESV Austria Graz	3	2½	4th	1½	2	3	2	2	2		4th	2½
11.	SK Mayrhofen	1½	2	2	1	2	3	3	2½	3½	2		4th
12.	SK Danube	1	1	3½	3½	2	1½	3	2	3	3½	2

The championship team

1.	Union Ansfelden
	GM Zoltán Gyimesi (11 games / 7.0 points), GM Ľubomír Ftáčnik (11 / 8.0), GM Vlastimil Babula (11 / 7.5), GM Nikolaus Stanec (11 / 8.0), IM Christian Weiß ( 11 / 7.5) and FM Hermann Knoll (11 / 6.5).

Web links

• Results of the Austrian 1st league on chess-results.com