It is a member of the Deutscher Olympischer Sportbund and of FIDE, the World Chess Federation.

It has over 90,000 members [1] in over 2500 clubs, making it one of the world's largest national chess federations.

Founding members included the philosopher Carl Göring and the writer Rudolf von Gottschall; organizers Hermann Zwanzig , Constantin Schwede and Eduard Hammacher; and the chess masters Adolf Anderssen, Max Lange, and Johannes Hermann Zukertort.

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