We play all in one language

INTERCULTURAL CHESS TOURNAMENT

We are now in the era of global convergence. The world is getting smaller, the challenge of coexistence between people from different cultures is more exciting than ever.

For example, there is the chess club Satranç Club 2000 (Satranç is the turkish translation for chess), which has been founded ten years ago by turkish-originated chess friends and chess enthusiasts. Right from the start, the club invited players from all nations. Now Germans and Turks, Serbs and Kosovars etc. are playing shoulder to shoulder for their Satranç Club. It is one the few chess clubs in the world, which contains the intercultural fraternisation in its articles of association. Other chess clubs, especially in North Rhine-Westphalia, are intending to follow this archetype. Migrants are calling everyone up for integration.

The Satranç Club organized their fourth Intercultural Rapid Chess tournament on 26th of September 2010. The tournament was held this time for the tenth anniversary of association and it was also an official European Union event on the “European Day of Languages”. The slogan was “We play all in one language / Biz ayni dilden oynuyoruz”.

The unbeaten winner was the talented player Carlo Pauly. Runner-up was Markus Ecker and the top player of the Satranç Club, Alexander Johannes, was third. The senior prize was awarded to Peter Faethe and the junior prize to Sophie Schröter. The 1st Satranç Chairman Güven Manay congratulates everyone for his hard work in organizing and preparing the tournament, but last not least to the arbiter Izzet Yilmaz.

Tournament table and results at:

2010 Website / IKW 2010 website.html

The Satranç Club is looking for your visit and inviting everyboday to the centrally located City Hotel Köln am Neumarkt, Clemensstr. 8, 50676 Cologne, especially on Saturdays starting at 16 clock.

Report: Manay Güven, First Chairman of the Satranç Club 2000 (www.satranc.de.vu)

Photos: Christine Westphal