State Chess League A 1996/97

The 1996/97 season was the 22nd season of the Austrian chess State League A . SK Ottakring and SK Pinggau-Friedberg had risen from the State League B.

While Ottakring achieved relegation, SK Pinggau-Friedberg had to relegate together with SC Inter Salzburg .

The SK Merkur Graz successfully defended his title by six points.

For the reported team squads of the participating clubs see team squad of the Austrian State League A in Chess 1996/97 .

Dates and venues

The competitions took place from October 18 to 20, 1996 in Fürstenfeld , from November 15 to 17, 1996 in Klagenfurt am Wörthersee , on January 25 and 26, 1997 in Traun and from February 28 to March 2, 1997 in Vienna .

Closing table

Pl.	society	Sp	G	U	V	Board P.	MP
01.	SK Merkur Graz (M)	11	9	2	0	45.0: 21.0	20: 02
02.	SC Margareten	11	8th	1	2	39.0: 27.0	17: 05
03.	SG ASK / KSV Klagenfurt	11	6th	1	4th	37.5: 28.5	13: 09
04th	1. Wiener Neustädter SV	11	7th	1	3	37.0: 29.0	15: 07
05.	SG Hietzing / Fischer Vienna	11	5	1	5	35.0: 31.0	11:11
06th	SK Fürstenfeld	11	4th	2	5	34.0: 32.0	10:12
07th	SK Ottakring (N)	11	5	3	3	33.5: 32.5	13: 09
08th.	SC Traun 67	11	5	1	5	33.5: 32.5	11:11
09.	SK Hohenems	11	3	1	7th	29.0: 37.0	07:15
10.	ESV Austria Graz	11	3	0	8th	28.0: 38.0	06:16
11.	SC Inter Salzburg	11	3	1	7th	26.5: 39.5	07:15
12.	SK Pinggau-Friedberg (N)	11	1	0	10	18.0: 48.0	02:20

Reductions:

	Austrian champion: SK Merkur Graz
	Relegation to the State League B : SC Inter Salzburg and SK Pinggau-Friedberg
(M)	Last season champions
(N)	Promoted last season

Crosstab

Results		01.	02.	03.	04th	05.	06th	07th	08th.	09.	10.	11.	12.
01.	SK Merkur Graz		5	3½	3½	4th	3	4½	3	4th	3½	5½	5½
02.	SC Margareten	1		3½	3	4th	3½	4th	4th	4th	5	2½	4½
03.	SG ASK / KSV Klagenfurt	2½	2½		2	3½	5	3	4th	2½	3½	5	4th
04th	1. Wiener Neustädter SV	2½	3	4th		4th	3½	2½	4th	3½	3½	2	4½
05.	SG Hietzing / Fischer Vienna	2	2	2½	2		3	2½	3½	4th	4th	4½	5
06th	SK Fürstenfeld	3	2½	1	2½	3		4th	2½	4½	2½	3½	5
07th	SK Ottakring	1½	2	3	3½	3½	2		3½	3	4th	3	4½
08th.	SC Traun 67	3	2	2	2	2½	3½	2½		4th	4th	3½	4½
09.	SK Hohenems	2	2	3½	2½	2	1½	3	2		2½	4th	4th
10.	ESV Austria Graz	2½	1	2½	2½	2	3½	2	2	3½		2	4½
11.	SC Inter Salzburg	½	3½	1	4th	1½	2½	3	2½	2	4th		2
12.	SK Pinggau-Friedberg	½	1½	2	1½	1	1	1½	1½	2	1½	4th

Qualifying tournament for the State League A 1997/98

The qualifying tournament for the State League A took place in Vienna from April 11th to 13th . The participants were the RbEJ Gleisdorf (winner of the State League B South), the SK Absam (winner of the State League B West) and with the SG Austria Wien / Husek and the SC Wien-Donaustadt the two first place winners of the State League B East. Gleisdorf and Absam secured the first two places and thus rose to the State League A.

Closing table

Pl.	society	Sp	G	U	V	Board P.	MP
01.	RbEJ Gleisdorf	3	2	0	1	10.0: 08.0	4: 2
02.	SK Absam	3	2	0	1	09.5: 08.5	4: 2
03.	SC Donaustadt	3	1	1	1	09.5: 08.5	3: 3
04th	SG Austria Vienna / Husek	3	0	1	2	07.0: 11.0	1: 5

decisions

Promotion to the State League A : RbEJ Gleisdorf , SK Absam

Crosstab

Results		01.	02.	03.	04th
01.	RbEJ Gleisdorf		4th	1½	4½
02.	SK Absam	2		4th	3½
03.	SC Donaustadt	4½	2		3
04th	SG Austria Vienna / Husek	1½	2½	3

The championship team

1.	SK Merkur Graz
	GM Alexander Beliavsky (2 games / 1.5 points), GM Alexander Csernyin (8 / 7.0), GM Stefan Kindermann (3 / 2.5), IM Nikolaus Stanec (11 / 8.5), FM Alfred Felsberger ( 11 / 7.0), FM Horst Watzka (10 / 7.0), IM Walter Pils (3 / 2.0), IM Walter Wittmann (11 / 7.0), Peter Detter (6 / 2.5) and Martin Riedner (1 / 0.0).

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Results of the 1st to 3rd round in Schachsport 4/15, page 4ff. (PDF file; 1.3 MB)
2. ↑ Results of the 4th to 6th round in Schachsport 8/15, page 4ff. (PDF file; 1.4 MB)
3. ↑ Results of the 7th and 8th round in Schachsport 16/15, page 3f. (PDF file; 1.4 MB)
4. ↑ Results of the 9th to 11th round in Schachsport 21/15, page 3ff. (PDF file; 1.4 MB)

Web links

• Results of the Austrian 1st league on chess-results.com
• Results of the qualification tournament in Schachsport 27/15, page 3 (PDF; 1.0 MB)