Federal Chess League 2017/18 (Switzerland)

The 2017/18 Bundesliga Chess League is the top division of the Swiss Group Championship (SGM) in chess. Champion was the SC Gonzen , while the defending champion SC Lyss-Seeland had to relegate bottom of the table. SC Kirchberg was promoted from the 2nd Bundesliga last year . For the reported team squads of the participating clubs, see the team squad of the Swiss 1st Bundesliga in chess 2017/18 .

Dates and venues

The competitions took place on November 11th, December 2nd 2017, January 13th and 27th, February 10th and 24th and March 17th 2018. The last round was organized centrally in Lyss , the others took place decentrally at the participating clubs instead of.

table

Pl.	society	Sp	G	U	V	MP	Board P.
01.	SC Gonzen	7th	6th	0	1	12: 2	36.5: 19.5
02.	Cercle d'échecs de Nyon	7th	5	0	2	10: 4	34.5: 21.5
03.	Echiquier Bruntrutain Porrentruy	7th	4th	1	2	9: 5	33.5: 22.5
04th	SG Winterthur	7th	4th	0	3	8: 6	29.0: 27.0
05.	SG Riehen	7th	3	0	4th	6: 8	26.5: 29.5
05.	SV Wollishofen	7th	3	0	4th	6: 8	26.5: 29.5
07th	SC Kirchberg (N)	7th	1	1	5	3:11	20.5: 35.5
08th.	SC Lyss-Seeland (M)	7th	1	0	6th	2:12	17.0: 39.0

decisions

	Swiss Federal Champion: SC Gonzen
	Relegated to the 2nd Bundesliga : SC Lyss-Seeland
(M)	Last season champions
(N)	Promoted last season

Crosstab

Results		01.	02.	03.	04th	05.	05.	07th	08th.
01.	SC Gonzen		4½	3	4½	6th	6th	6½	6th
02.	Cercle d'échecs de Nyon	3½		5	3½	4½	4½	6th	7½
03.	Echiquier Bruntrutain Porrentruy	5	3		3½	5	6th	4th	7th
04th	SG Winterthur	3½	4½	4½		3½	3	5½	4½
05.	SG Riehen	2	3½	3	4½		5½	3½	4½
05.	SV Wollishofen	2	3½	2	5	2½		5½	6th
07th	SC Kirchberg	1½	2	4th	2½	4½	2½		3½
08th.	SC Lyss-Zealand	2	½	1	3½	3½	2	4½

Promotion game to the 1st Bundesliga

For the promotion game played on May 5, 2018 in Kreuzlingen , the winners of the two second division seasons qualified with SC Bodan and Valais. Although Bodan was weaker on all boards, the team prevailed and rose to the 1st Bundesliga.

SC Bodan	Valais	Result
Andreas Heimann	Christian Bauer	1-0
Peter Kühn	Yannick Pelletier	0.5: 0.5
Theo Hommeles	Gérard Nüesch	1-0
Alfred Weindl	Mihajlo Stojanović	0.5: 0.5
Dieter Knödler	Spyridon Skembris	0.5: 0.5
Marcel Wildi	Fabrizio Patuzzo	1-0
Marcel Marentini	Pascal Vianin	0: 1
Michael Schmid	Nikolas Pogan	0.5: 0.5

The championship team

1.	SC Gonzen
	Imre Héra , Sebastian Bogner , Serhij Owsejewytsch , Bence Korpa , Thomas Henrichs , Valery Atlas , Georg Fröwis , Luca Kessler , Fabian Bänziger , Ufuk Tuncer, Ali Habibi , Vjekoslav Vulević, Ingo Meyer, Dmitry Atlas, Guido Neuberger.

Web links

• Results at the Swiss Chess Federation
• Result of the promotion game at the Swiss Chess Federation

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Schedule at the Swiss Chess Federation (PDF; 495.43 KB)