The term Chess Bundesliga (german: Schach-Bundesliga) normally refers to the premier league of team

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established in 1980. It is arguably the strongest league of its kind and attracts many high-rated grandmasters.

Austria Austria, , bar, Östareich officially the Republic of Austria, is a country in the southern part of Central Europe, lying in the Eastern Alps. It is a federation of nine states, one of which is the capital, Vienna, the most populous ...

also has a Bundesliga for chess, usually described as the Bundesliga OST (for

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Format

Sixteen teams face each other in a single round robin format, each match-day team formed of eight players. The season runs between October and April. Team members may be male or female, but there is also a separate Bundesliga restricted to female players ("Frauen-Schach-Bundesliga"). Each playing weekend normally comprises two matches for each team, played on consecutive days. Matches are arranged to that teams pair up as "travelling partners". Many of the titled professionals are paid an appearance fee and/or travel expenses.

Season 2006/07

Prior to the commencement of the season, reigning champions ' started as runaway favourites - their impressive squad was topped by

Viswanathan Anand Viswanathan "Vishy" Anand (born 11 December 1969) is an Indian chess grandmaster and a former five-time World Chess Champion. He became the first grandmaster from India in 1988, and is one of the few players to have surpassed an Elo rating of ...

Peter Svidler Pyotr Veniaminovich Svidler (russian: Пётр Вениами́нович Сви́длер; born 17 June 1976), commonly known as Peter Svidler, is a Russian chess grandmaster and an eight-time Russian Chess Champion who now frequently commenta ...

Alexei Shirov Alexei Shirov (, lv, Aleksejs Širovs; born 4 July 1972) is a Latvian and Spanish chess player. Shirov was ranked number two in the world in 1994. He won a match against Vladimir Kramnik in 1998 to qualify to play as challenger for the classic ...

Étienne Bacrot Étienne Bacrot (; born 22 January 1983) is a French chess grandmaster, and as a child, a chess prodigy. He competed at the Candidates Matches in 2007 and won the Aeroflot Open in 2009. He passed 2700 FIDE rating in 2004 and in January 2005 ...

Magnus Carlsen Sven Magnus Øen Carlsen (born 30 November 1990) is a Norwegian chess grandmaster who is the reigning five-time World Chess Champion. He is also a three-time World Rapid Chess Champion and five-time World Blitz Chess Champion. Carlsen has h ...

Liviu-Dieter Nisipeanu Liviu-Dieter Nisipeanu (born 1 August 1976) is a Romanian (until 2014) and German (since 2014) chess grandmaster. His peak FIDE rating was 2707 in October 2005, when he was ranked fifteenth in the world, and the highest rated Romanian player eve ...

Pentala Harikrishna Pentala Harikrishna (born 10 May 1986) is an Indian chess grandmaster. He became the youngest grandmaster from India after attaining the title in 2001, a record now held by Gukesh D. He was Commonwealth Champion in 2001, World Junior ...

and

Francisco Vallejo Pons Francisco Vallejo, son of Ángel R. Vallejo Jiménez, military academy graduate in Law, and Felicidad Pons Gomila. He was born in Mahón, where the main hospital on the island of Menorca was located, but he has never lived there, but rather in E ...

. GMs

Peter Heine Nielsen Peter Heine Nielsen (born 24 May 1973) is a Danish chess trainer and player. He was awarded the title of Grandmaster by FIDE in 1994. He coached world champions Vishwanathan Anand and Magnus Carlsen winning World Championships in 2007, 2008, 20 ...

Sergei Movsesian Sergei Movsesian ( hy, Սերգեյ Մովսիսյան; born 3 November 1978) is an Armenian chess player. He was awarded the title Grandmaster by FIDE in 1997. He was a member of the gold medal-winning Armenian team at the 2011 World Team Chess ...

and

Michał Krasenkow Michał Krasenkow (born 14 November 1963) is a Polish chess grandmaster, chess trainer and writer. He is one of the strongest Polish chess players since World War II. His playing style is aggressive and he has won many "best game" awards. Lif ...

were just three of the other players. The closest threat to the champions were likely to be ', ''TSV Bindlach-Aktionar'' and '. ''OSC Baden-Baden'' successfully defended their title, whereas ''Werder Bremen'' faded badly after a good start and so a close fight developed for the remaining places. Unexpectedly, ' confounded the ratings to take second place, its Polish contingent

Radosław Wojtaszek Radosław Wojtaszek (born 13 January 1987) is a Polish chess grandmaster. He is a three-time Polish champion. Wojtaszek has acted as Viswanathan Anand's second, assisting the former world chess champion in his successful title defence match a ...

and

Robert Kempiński Robert Kempiński (born 11 July 1977) is a Polish chess Grandmaster. He is a two-time Polish Chess Champion. Career Kempiński entered his first tournament at the local chess club aged 7 and won easily. At the age of 14 he won the Polish ju ...

scoring heavily. ''SG Porz'' and ''TSV Bindlach-Aktionar'' finished in third and fourth places respectively, with outstanding performances coming from

Loek van Wely Loek van Wely (born 7 October 1972) is a Dutch chess player and politician. He was awarded the title Grandmaster by FIDE in 1993, and was rated among the world's top ten in 2001 with a rating of 2714. In March 2019, he was elected to the Dutch ...

(also undefeated) for ''Porz'' and Vladimir Baklan and

David Baramidze David Baramidze ( ka, დავით ბარამიძე, ''Davit' Baramidze''; born September 27, 1988) is a German chess Grandmaster. Baramidze was born in Tbilisi, Georgia. He obtained the title of Grandmaster in 2004, which made him t ...

for ''Bindlach''.

Recent seasons

Teams finishing in the top four places in recent seasons were as follows: * 2003/4 - 1. ''SG Porz'' , 2. ''SC Baden-Oos'' , 3. ''TV Tegernsee'' , 4. ''SV Werder Bremen'' * 2004/5 - 1. ''SV Werder Bremen'' , 2. ''SG Porz'' , 3. ''OSC Baden-Baden'' , 4. ''TV Tegernsee'' * 2005/6 - 1. ''OSC Baden-Baden'' , 2. ''Werder Bremen'' , 3. ''SG Porz'' , 4. ''SG Solingen'' * 2006/7 - 1. ''OSC Baden-Baden'' , 2. ''Hamburger SK'' , 3. ''SG Porz'' , 4. ''Bindlach Aktionär'' * 2007/8 - 1. ''OSC Baden-Baden'' , 2. ''Werder Bremen'' , 3. ''Mülheim'' , 4. ''Bindlach Aktionär'' * 2008/9 - 1. ''OSG Baden-Baden'' , 2. ''SC Eppingen'' , 3. ''Werder Bremen'' , 4. ''Mülheim'' * 2009/10 - 1. ''OSG Baden-Baden'' , 2. ''Werder Bremen'' , 3. ''SG Solingen'' , 4. ''Mülheim'' * 2010/11 - 1. ''OSG Baden-Baden'' , 2. ''Werder Bremen'' , 3. ''SC Eppingen'' , 4. ''SG Solingen'' * 2011/12 - 1. ''OSG Baden-Baden'' , 2. ''Werder Bremen'' , 3. ''SG Solingen'' , 4. ''SC Eppingen'' * 2012/13 - 1. ''OSG Baden-Baden'' , 2. ''Mülheim'' , 3. ''SG Solingen'' , 4. ''SC Eppingen'' * 2013/14 - 1. ''OSG Baden-Baden'' , 2. ''Mülheim'' , 3. ''SV Hockenheim'' , 4. ''SC Eppingen'' * 2014/15 - 1. ''OSG Baden-Baden'' , 2. ''Werder Bremen'' , 3. ''SV Hockenheim'' , 4. ''SK Schwäbisch Hall'' * 2015/16 - 1. ''SG Solingen'' , 2. ''OSG Baden-Baden'' , 3. ''Werder Bremen'' , 4. ''SK Schwäbisch Hall'' * 2016/17 - 1. ''OSG Baden-Baden'' , 2. ''SV 1930 Hockenheim'' , 3. ''SG Solingen'' , 4. ''SK Schwaebisch Hall'' * 2017/18 - 1. ''OSG Baden Baden'' , 2. ''SG Solingen'' , 3. ''SV Hockenheim'' , 4. ''SV Werder Bremen'' * 2018/19 - 1. ''OSG Baden Baden'' , 2. ''SV Hockenheim'' , 3. ''SG Solingen'' , 4. ''SF Deizisau'' * 2019/20

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Format

Season 2006/07

Recent seasons

See also

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