The Austrian Chess Championship is held by the Austrian Chess Federation (''Österreichischer Schachbund''). For its

correspondence chess Correspondence chess is chess played by various forms of long-distance correspondence, traditionally through the postal system. Today it is usually played through a correspondence chess server, a public internet chess forum, or email. Less common ...

subdivision, see OESB-FS.

Unofficial Championships

Official Championships

Erich Eliskases Erich Gottlieb Eliskases (15 February 1913 – 2 February 1997) was a chess player who represented Austria, Germany and Argentina in international competition. In the late 1930s he was considered a potential contender for the World Championship. ...

won two matches for the title against

Rudolf Spielmann Rudolf Spielmann (5 May 1883 – 20 August 1942) was a Jewish-Austrian chess player of the romantic school, and chess writer. Career Spielmann was born in 1883, third child of Moritz and Cecilia Spielmann, and had a younger brother Edgar, an o ...

in 1936 (5.5 : 4.5), and in 1937 (6 : 4), both in Semmering. :

Official Championships (women)

References

* (results through 1985)
Staatsmeisterschaften der Herren2004 report with list of previous winners
{{Chess national championships Chess national championships Women's chess national championships Chess in Austria

Chess Chess is a board game for two players, called White and Black, each controlling an army of chess pieces in their color, with the objective to checkmate the opponent's king. It is sometimes called international chess or Western chess to disti ...