German Chess League 2008/09 (Austria)

The 2008/09 season was the 34th season of the Austrian Chess League . The chess club Jenbach , SK Husek Wien and SV St. Veit an der Glan had moved up from the 2nd Bundesliga . While St. Veit an der Glan, together with SK Absam and Union Ansfelden, went straight down again, Jenbach managed to stay up. SK Husek Wien, somewhat surprisingly, secured the championship title ahead of defending champion SK Baden .

For the last time this season the number of board points and before the number of team points decided on the placements; in this there was also the three-point rating for the last time , i.e. three points for a win and one point for a draw.

For the reported team squads of the participating clubs, see team squad of the Austrian 1st Bundesliga in chess 2008/09 .

Dates and venues

The competitions took place from November 7th to 9th, 2008 in Sankt Veit an der Glan , from January 22nd to 25th, 2009 in Graz and from March 19th to 22nd, 2009 in Ansfelden .

Closing table

Pl.	society	Sp	G	U	V	Board P.	MP
01.	SK Husek Vienna (N)	11	9	1	01	46.5: 19.5	28
02.	SK Baden (M)	11	7th	2	02	44.5: 21.5	23
03.	SK Semriach	11	5	4th	02	36.5: 29.5	19th
04th	SV Pamhagen	11	6th	3	02	35.0: 31.0	21st
05.	SC MPÖ Maria Saal	11	5	3	03	35.0: 31.0	18th
06th	Union Styria Graz	11	3	4th	04th	32.5: 33.5	13
07th	Jenbach Chess Club (N)	11	4th	4th	03	32.0: 34.0	16
08th.	SK Hohenems	11	3	4th	04th	32.0: 34.0	13
09.	SV Wulkaprodersdorf	11	3	3	05	31.0: 35.0	12
10.	SK Absam	11	4th	2	05	29.0: 37.0	14th
11.	SV St. Veit an der Glan (N)	11	1	1	09	22.0: 44.0	04th
12.	Union Ansfelden	11	0	1	10	20.0: 46.0	01

Remarks:

	Austrian champion: SK Husek Vienna
	Relegation to the 2nd Bundesliga : SK Absam , SV St. Veit an der Glan , Union Ansfelden
(M)	Last season champions
(N)	Promoted last season

Crosstab

Results		01.	02.	03.	04th	05.	06th	07th	08th.	09.	10.	11.	12.
01.	SK Husek Vienna		3	4th	5½	2	3½	4½	4th	4½	5	5½	5
02.	SK Baden	3		2½	2	3½	4½	4th	3	5	5½	6th	5½
03.	SK Semriach	2	3½		4½	3	3	3	2½	3	4th	4th	4th
04th	SV Pamhagen	½	4th	1½		3½	3½	3	4th	4th	3	3	5
05.	SC MPÖ Maria Saal	4th	2½	3	2½		3½	4th	3	2	4th	3½	3
06th	Union Styria Graz	2½	1½	3	2½	2½		3	3	3½	3	4th	4th
07th	Jenbach chess club	1½	2	3	3	2	3		3½	3	3½	4th	3½
08th.	SK Hohenems	2	3	3½	2	3	3	2½		3	2½	4th	3½
09.	SV Wulkaprodersdorf	1½	1	3	2	4th	2½	3	3		2½	4th	4½
10.	SK Absam	1	½	2	3	2	3	2½	3½	3½		4th	4th
11.	SV St. Veit an der Glan	½	0	2	3	2½	2	2	2	2	2		4th
12.	Union Ansfelden	1	½	2	1	3	2	2½	2½	1½	2	2

The championship team

1.	SK Husek Vienna
	GM Sergej Movsesjan (3 games / 2 wins), GM Hikaru Nakamura (11 / 5.5), GM Kiril Georgiev (8 / 5.5), GM Evgeni Najer (8 / 6.5), GM Emil Sutovsky (11 / 7.5), GM Fabiano Caruana (3 / 3.0), GM Viktor Láznička (7 / 6.0), GM Alexander Csernyin (7 / 5.5), GM Attila Grószpéter (1 / 0.5), GM Andrej Kawaljou (4 / 3.5) and FM Helmut Kummer (3 / 1.0).

Individual evidence

1. ^ Reports to the Austrian Chess Federation

Web links

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