State Chess League A 1999/2000

The 1999/2000 season was the 25th season of the Austrian chess State League A . From the State League B were SK Zell am Ziller and the first SSK Mozart ascended. While Salzburg managed to stay in the league, SK Zell am Ziller had to relegate together with SC Die Klagenfurter .

The defending champion SK Merkur Graz won the fifth title in a row by ten points.

After the season the 1st SK Ottakring merged with SG Austria / Husek to form SG Austria / Husek / Ottakring . The SK Loosdorf, which rose to the state league A last season and reached fourth place, took part in the competition as SV NÖ Melk-Wachau from this season .

For the reported team squads of the participating clubs see the team squad of the Austrian State League A in Chess 1999/2000 .

Dates and venues

The competitions took place from October 22nd to 26th, 1999 in Melk , from January 14th to 16th, 2000 in Fürstenfeld and from March 17th to 19th, 2000 in Graz .

Closing table

Pl.	society	Sp	G	U	V	Board P.	MP
01.	SK Merkur Graz (M)	11	9	2	0	45.5: 20.5	20: 02
02.	SV Lower Austria Melk-Wachau	11	6th	3	2	35.5: 30.5	15: 07
03.	SK Hietzing Vienna	11	5	2	4th	34.5: 31.5	12:10
04th	1. Wiener Neustädter SV	11	5	2	4th	34.0: 32.0	12:10
05.	ESV Austria Graz	11	5	2	4th	32.5: 33.5	12:10
06th	SK Ottakring	11	4th	3	4th	32.5: 33.5	11:11
07th	SK Hohenems	11	3	2	6th	31.5: 34.5	08:14
08th.	RbEJ Gleisdorf	11	2	5	4th	31.0: 35.0	09:13
09.	1. SSK Mozart (N)	11	2	3	6th	31.0: 35.0	07:15
10.	SK Fürstenfeld	11	6th	0	5	30.5: 35.5	12:10
11.	SK Zell am Ziller (N)	11	1	5	5	30.0: 36.0	07:15
12.	SC The people of Klagenfurt	11	2	3	6th	27.5: 38.5	07:15

Remarks:

	Austrian champion: SK Merkur Graz
	Relegation to the State League B : SK Zell am Ziller and SC Die Klagenfurter
(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		4th	3	4½	5	3	4th	4th	3½	5½	4th	5
02.	SV Lower Austria Melk-Wachau	2		3½	3½	3	4th	3½	1½	3	3½	3	5
03.	SK Hietzing Vienna	3	2½		3	2½	4th	4th	2	3½	3½	4th	2½
04th	1. Wiener Neustädter SV	1½	2½	3		2½	4th	3½	4½	3½	2½	3	3½
05.	ESV Austria Graz	1	3	3½	3½		2	4th	3	2½	4½	3½	2
06th	SK Ottakring	3	2	2	2	4th		3	3	3½	2½	4th	3½
07th	SK Hohenems	2	2½	2	2½	2	3		3	3½	2½	4½	4th
08th.	RbEJ Gleisdorf	2	4½	4th	1½	3	3	3		2½	1½	3	3
09.	1. SSK Mozart	2½	3	2½	2½	3½	2½	2½	3½		2½	3	3
10.	SK Fürstenfeld	½	2½	2½	3½	1½	3½	3½	4½	3½		1	4th
11.	SK Zell am Ziller	2	3	2	3	2½	2	1½	3	3	5		3
12.	SC The people of Klagenfurt	1	1	3½	2½	4th	2½	2	3	3	2	3

Qualifying tournament for the State League A 2000/01

The qualifying tournament for the State League A took place from March 31 to April 2 in Linz . The participants were SK VÖEST Linz (winner of the Staatsliga B Mitte), SK Austria Wien - Husek (winner of the Staatsliga B Ost), the SK Sparkasse Absam (winner of the Staatsliga B West) and the union Raika Gamlitz / Leutasch as the winner of the State League B South. Gamlitz / Leutasch and Linz took the first two places and were promoted to the State League A.

Closing table

Pl.	society	Sp	G	U	V	Board P.	MP
01.	SG Gamlitz / Leutschach	3	1	2	0	10.5: 07.5	4: 2
02.	SK VÖEST Linz	3	1	2	0	10.0: 08.0	4: 2
03.	Austria / Husek	3	1	0	2	08.0: 10.0	2: 4
04th	SK Absam	3	0	2	1	07.5: 10.5	2: 4

decisions

Promotion to the State League A : SG Gamlitz / Leutschach , SK VÖEST Linz

Crosstab

Results		01.	02.	03.	04th
01.	SG Gamlitz / Leutschach		3	4½	3
02.	SK VÖEST Linz	3		4th	3
03.	SG Austria / Husek	1½	2		4½
04th	SK Absam	3	3	1½

The championship team

1.	SK Merkur Graz
	GM Joël Lautier (5 games / 3.5 points), GM Alexander Csernyin (11 / 6.5), IM Nikolaus Stanec (11 / 7.0), GM Stefan Kindermann (11 / 8.0), GM Thomas Luther ( 8 / 6.5), GM Henrik Teske (11 / 8.5), FM Alfred Felsberger (2 / 1.0), IM Walter Wittmann (3 / 2.0), FM Horst Watzka (3 / 2.0) and Peter Detter (1 / 0.5).

Web links

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