State Chess League A 2002/03

The 2002/03 season was the 28th season of the Austrian State Chess League A and at the same time the last season before the competition was renamed "Bundesliga".

From the State League B were SV Tschaturanga and SK Absam ascended. While SV Tschaturanga was able to maintain relegation, SK Absam, together with SK Hietzing Wien and 1. SSK Mozart, had to relegate directly. Together with a restructuring of the State League B, the promotion and relegation regulation between State League A and State League B was changed. On the one hand, the number of seasons in State League B was reduced from four to three, but the winners of the seasons of State League B were directly entitled to promotion to State League A, while up to now they had to play two starting places in State League A in a qualifying tournament.

ESV Austria Graz became the new champions with one point ahead of SV Tschaturanga. The defending champion, the SK Graz / Frohnleiten syndicate - in the previous year still at the start as SK Merkur Graz - had to be content with sixth place. After the 2002/03 season, the playing community SK Graz / Frohnleiten dissolved, whereupon their place was taken by SV Frohnleiten .

For the reported team squads of the participating clubs see team squad of the Austrian State League A in Chess 2002/03 .

Dates and venues

The competitions took place from December 5 to 8, 2002 in Frohnleiten , from January 23 to 26, 2003 in Jenbach and from March 14 to 16, 2003 in Fürstenfeld .

Closing table

Pl.	society	Sp	G	U	V	Board P.	MP
01.	ESV Austria Graz	11	7th	3	1	40.5: 25.5	17: 05
02.	SV Tschaturanga (N)	11	6th	3	2	39.5: 26.5	15: 07
03.	SK Gleisdorf	11	4th	6th	1	37.0: 29.0	14: 08
04th	Jenbach chess club	11	5	3	3	36.0: 30.0	13: 09
05.	SC The people of Klagenfurt	11	5	5	1	35.0: 31.0	15: 07
06th	SK Merkur Graz / Frohnleiten (M)	11	4th	4th	3	34.0: 32.0	12:10
07th	SV Lower Austria Melk-Wachau	11	3	2	6th	33.0: 33.0	08:14
08th.	SK Fürstenfeld	11	5	1	5	32.5: 33.5	11:11
09.	SK Hohenems	11	2	5	4th	32.0: 34.0	09:13
10.	SK Absam (N)	11	4th	4th	3	31.5: 34.5	12:10
11.	SK Hietzing Vienna	11	0	3	8th	23.0: 43.0	03:19
12.	1. SSK Mozart	11	1	1	9	22.0: 44.0	03:19

Remarks:

	Austrian champion: ESV Austria Graz
	Relegation to the 2nd Bundesliga : SK Absam , SK Hietzing Vienna , 1st SSK Mozart Salzburg
(M)	Last season champions
(N)	Promoted last season

Crosstab

Results		01.	02.	03.	04th	05.	06th	07th	08th.	09.	10.	11.	12.
01.	ESV Austria Graz		3½	3	2½	3½	3½	4th	3½	3	3	5	6th
02.	SV Tschaturanga	2½		3	4th	3	2½	4½	3	3½	5½	4th	4th
03.	SK Gleisdorf	3	3		2½	3	4th	3	4½	3	3	4th	4th
04th	Jenbach chess club	3½	2	3½		3	3	2	2½	3	5	4½	4th
05.	SC The people of Klagenfurt	2½	3	3	3		3	3½	3½	3½	3½	3	3½
06th	SK Graz / Frohnleiten	2½	3½	2	3	3		4th	4th	3	2	3	4th
07th	SV Lower Austria Melk-Wachau	2	1½	3	4th	2½	2		2½	2½	3	5½	4½
08th.	SK Fürstenfeld	2½	3	1½	3½	2½	2	3½		4th	2	3½	4½
09.	SK Hohenems	3	2½	3	3	2½	3	3½	2		2½	3	4th
10.	SK Absam	3	½	3	1	2½	4th	3	4th	3½		4th	3
11.	SK Hietzing Vienna	1	2	2	1½	3	3	½	2½	3	2		2½
12.	1. SSK Mozart	0	2	2	2	2½	2	1½	1½	2	3	3½

The championship team

1.	ESV Austria Graz
	GM Peter Wells (7 games / 4.0 points), GM Robert Rabiega (9 / 5.5), GM Mladen Muše (7 / 4.0), GM Thomas Pähtz (4 / 2.5), IM Aljoša Grosar ( 4 / 2.5), FM Harald Herndl (4 / 2.0), FM Kurt Fahrner (11 / 6.5), FM Erich Frosch (11 / 7.5) and FM Hubert Ebner (9 / 6.0) .

Web links

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