TeleSchach

The Internet portal TeleSchach had its first beginnings in 1995 and 1996. From spring 1995, after his retirement, Gerhard Hund ran the chess forum of CyberCity Cologne.[ https://www.teleschach.de/schach_m.htm Cibercity auf TeleSCHACH.DE]. He organized the 1st TeleChess Championship of CyberCity in 1996. He made the preparations for this in autumn 1995, discussing e-mail tournaments with Fritz Baumbach. However the Bund Deutscher Fernschachfreunde did not want to organize e-mail tournaments at that time and also ChessBase offered online tournaments on a chess server only later.

From April 1996 TeleSchach was not only present on the Internet in Germany but worldwide on the Internet. In 1996 it reported daily as the only one worldwide on the Internet about the World Seniors Chess Championship in Bad Liebenzell. Mark Crowther (The Week in Chess) reported several times about TeleSchach and in 1997 brought the announcement of the World Seniors Chess Championship and results17.11.1997 The week in chess about it.