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Simon Rueß wins 1st Rottal Youth Rapid Chess Championship (PNP report from Josef König)

18-year-old student scores 5 points from 5 rounds at the district championship

Fast thinkers in demand: Simon Rueß won the first Rottal Youth Rapid Chess Championship. The 18-year-old student from Pfarrkirchen scored five points from five rounds. Second placed Aramis Slawik (14 / also Pfarrkirchen) reached four points and lost only to the eventual winner. Maximilian Hausleitner (Falkenberg) scored three points and finished third. Fourth placed Anna-Maria König (Pfarrkirchen) finished with two points and won the girls' trophy. Luca Amann (Falkenberg) took fifth place. The youngest participant at 11 reached one point. Each player had 15 minutes per game at the tournament in the Eggenfelden sports restaurant; children and adolescents under the age of 20 residing in the Rottal-Inn district were eligible to participate. Youth leaders Gerhard Angermeier and Eva-Maria Kainz from Chess Club Rottal-Inn looked after the youngsters, patron Josef König directed the tournament.

Final standings: 1. Simon Rueß (Pfarrkirchen) 5.0 points / 12.0 tiebreak / 5 rounds; 2. Aramis Slawik (Pfarrkirchen) 4.0 / 11.5; 3. Maximilian Hausleitner (Falkenberg) 3.0 / 11.5; 4. Anna-Maria König (Pfarrkirchen) 2.0 / 12.0; 5. Luca Amann (Falkenberg) 1.0 / 14.

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Published: 20 March 2020

Club Championship 2019-20: Andreas Nöhbauer leading after three rounds

After three rounds played, Andreas Nöhbauer, the top seeded player, leads the club championship 2019/20 with full score. Half a point behind him in second place is Dr. Hermann Post, who had to end the tournament due to illness before the start of the fourth round. In third place are Ernst Putz and Gerhard Angermeier with two points each.The top pairings of the fourth round are: Gerhard Angermeier - Andreas Nöhbauer, Ernst Putz - Giovanni Migliore.
(Results and current standings under the menu item "Tournaments")

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Published: 25 February 2020

Lower Bavarian Team Cup 2020: Chess Club Rottal-Inn reaches the semi-final

By a 3:1 over SV Deggendorf, the team of the Chess Club Rottal-Inn qualified for the semi-finals of the Lower Bavarian Team Cup 2020 on Shrove Sunday.
The nominally clearly inferior Deggendorfer delivered a tough fight to the defending champion and drew on boards 1 and 2. After four and a half hours of play and victories by Klaus Schwarzmeier and Andreas Nöhbauer, the Rottal chess players finally broke the resistance.
In the semi-finals on May 3, the SC Rottal-Inn faces the second team of SC Ortenburg at home.
The individual results (in the board order, SC Rottal-Inn named first): Josef Ager - Michael Bacholke draw, Patrick Bensch - Simon Staudinger draw, Klaus Schwarzmeier - Helmut Ertl 1:0, Andreas Nöhbauer - Alexander Lenhard 1:0.

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Published: 24 February 2020

Chess Club Rottal-Inn's top team has to fight against relegation (PNP report by Josef König)

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Published: 22 February 2020

Lower Bavarian Blitz Championship 2020: Johann Maierhofer takes runner-up

Our new entrant Johann Maierhofer has taken Lower Bavarian runner-up in blitz chess. At the title fight at the end of January in Röhrnbach, he finished second behind the superior tournament winner Peter Eizenhammer (SC Vilshofen) and thus qualified for the Bavarian Blitz Championship 2020. Congratulations!

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Published: 05 February 2020