The chess team from the Technische Hochschule Mittelhessen took second place in the tournament for company and business teams in Wiesbaden. 34 teams from all over Germany took part in the competition organized by R+V insurance.

Thomas Henrich, chairman of the Giessen Chess Club and a former student at the Department of Mathematics, Natural Sciences and Computer Science (MNI), played at the top board of the TH. His colleagues were Professors Dr. Joaquin Diaz ( Department of Civil Engineering), Dr. Stephan Euler ( Department of Mathematics, Natural Sciences and Computer Science), Dr. Klaus Wüst ( Department of MNI), and lecturer Dr. Volker Neitzert.

The tournament, which was played in rapid chess mode (20 minutes per match), used four of the five players per game. There were superior victories for the TH team at the beginning against the Deutsche Bundesbank and the European Central Bank. After a narrow defeat against the Wuppertaler Stadtwerke and another victory over the Federal Statistical Office, the team had worked out a good starting position.

A clear 0:4 defeat against Opel 1 was followed by clear victories against last year's winner R+V-Versicherung and Opel 2. The TH thus achieved second place in the tournament. Expense Reduction Analysts came first. Klaus Wüst scored the most points for TH on the fourth board, winning five of his six games and drawing once.