The chess team from Giessen -Friedberg University of Applied Sciences narrowly missed the overall victory at the tournament for company and corporate teams in Wiesbaden. In the competition, organized by R+V Insurance and attended by 34 teams from across Germany, the quintet from the central Hessian university took second place.

The lecturer Dr. Holger Dietz. His colleagues were the professors Dr. Joaquin Diaz ( Department of Building), Dr. Matthias Willems, Dr. Stephan Euler (both Department mathematics, natural sciences and data processing) and Dr. Klaus Wüst ( Department of Mathematics, Natural Sciences and Computer Science).

The tournament, which was played in rapid chess mode (20 minutes per match), used four of the five players per game. After the fourth round, the FH team had achieved a good starting position with three victories against the State Statistical Office, the Deutsche Bundesbank and the Opel team and a draw against a law firm.

A draw was also enough against the tournament favorite, Giessen TransMIT GmbH. This was followed by a win against R+V Versicherung, who had previously been undefeated. In the final round, both the R+V team and the FH team won, so both finished the tournament with 12:2 points. The "board points" – similar to goal difference in football – had to decide the winner. And the insurers were ahead with 20.5 points to FH's 20.

FH captain Matthias Willems was very satisfied with the way the tournament went and wants to compete again with his team next year.