Chess Bundesliga

The Chess League is the top division in the German team chess. For men, it exists in its present form since 1980, before it was divided into four squadrons. The women's league started in 1991. The 1st Bundesliga in the men currently consists of 16 and with the ladies from 12 teams. The second- highest division is the 2nd Bundesliga. Here the gentlemen play in four parallel squadrons, each with ten teams, with the ladies, there are three groups of eight chess teams. In the men will each at eight, played in women are the six boards.

The League is one of the strongest in the world, for many clubs play strong grandmasters. Acting Master is the OSG Baden- Baden, who won for the eighth time in succession.

  • 4.1 Men
  • 4.2 Women

Organizational form

The German Chess Federation (DSB ) has launched the Bundesliga to life and was initially responsible only for tournament use planning and management. Later, a committee was created, consisting of three representatives each of the clubs and the DSB. On 3 February 2007, the chess Bundesliga eV was founded in Berlin in order to market the league better. The DSB is a member of the association. Founding president was Christian Zickelbein, his successor since June 2009, Markus Schäfer.

Since the 2008/ 09 season the Chess League Game leads the operation and marketing of the " strongest chess league in the world " on his own responsibility.

The match days the chess Bundesliga find exclusively on weekends, ie Saturdays and Sundays instead. Exceptions are unique eight competitions, which are held on a Friday in the season. The trains to be transferred from a total of 960 games live on the Internet on the website of the chess Bundesliga per season. At the end of each season, a team will be crowned as German champions and four teams are affected by the decline in the second four leagues.

16 players plus up to two youth players may be reported per team. A foreigner restriction does not exist. The reflection is ( starting from the season 2009/10) 100 minutes for the first 40 moves, 50 minutes for the next 20 moves and 15 minutes to the end game; from the first train each player will also receive a time credit of 30 seconds per train to the end of the game.

Historical Review

Gentlemen

According to the decision of the DSB - Congress 1973 in Trier and at the initiative of the DSB sporting director Helmut Nöttger the men's Chess League was founded in 1974, but then four tracks. At the end of the season, the four winners play a final tournament for the German team championship.

In 1980, the DSB established the single track first Bundesliga; the four winners from each group were eligible for this league. The games will be conducted on a total of seven weekends. It will meet on a weekend four teams each consisting of eight players, and play two matches (Saturday afternoon and Sunday morning ).

In the first season of the league single-track started following teams:

  • Qualification from Group North:
  • Qualification from Group West:
  • Qualification from Group Southwest:
  • Qualification from Group South:

Ladies

The women's league started in 1991, the top six teams from the big leagues of the former GDR were set. Rotational Berlin, Spvgg 1899 Leipzig, Weimar engine, chemistry Guben, PSV Dresden, VdS Buna hall. For this purpose, qualified six teams from the West German state associations: Krefeld Chess Club Tower 1851 (North Rhine- Westphalia), SVg Lasker- Steglitz ( Lower Saxony, Bremen and Berlin), Hamburger SK (Hamburg and Schleswig -Holstein), SC Besse Bach ( Bavaria and Württemberg), TSV Schott Mainz ( Rhineland-Palatinate and Baden ), SV 1920 Hofheim ( Hesse and Saarland). In the early days of the league in 1992 ascended Elberfelder SG was with six Championships Series winner before she retired in 1999 from the game operation.

Costs

Around the year 1990 amounted to the annual cost of the Bundesliga approximately one million DM, which had to be provided solely by the participating clubs. 2011 amounted Christian Zickelbein the total budget of the 16 Bundesliga clubs to 1 million euros per season, each about 200,000 euros were traded on the two top clubs OSG Baden -Baden and Werder Bremen.

Current

In the 2013/14 season, the following teams playing in the first national leagues:

Gentlemen

See also Squad of the German Chess Bundesliga 2013/14.

Season 2013/14: OSG Baden -Baden, Chess Friends Berlin, Werder Bremen, SK Tower Emsdetten, Chess Club Epping, SV Griesheim, Hamburger SK, SV 1930 Hockenheim, Sportfreunde Katernberg, SV Mülheim- Nord, FC Bayern Munich, Schachgesellschaft Solingen, King Tegel, SG Trier, SC Four Home, SV Wattenscheid

Ladies

See also Squad of the German Chess Bundesliga 2013/14 ( women).

Season 2013/14 ( women): OSG Baden -Baden, SC Bad Königshofen, SF Deizisau, SF 1891 Friedberg, SK Großlehna, USV Volksbank Halle, Hamburg SK, SK Taught, White Blue Alliance Leipzig, TSV Schott Mainz, SV Mülheim- Nord, Rodewischer chess chicks

European Chess Club Cup
711952
de