| 47th Swiss Team Chess Championship: 1997 |
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| 47th Swiss Team Chess Championship (see all-time tournament summary) |
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| Dates: | March - November 1997 |
| City: | Various locations (season-long competition) |
| Tournament Director: | |
| Chief Arbiter: | |
| Teams participating: | 10 8 teams retained from 1996 Promoted from Nationalliga B 1996: SG Winterthur and Basler SG. |
| Players participating: | 119 (incl. 21 GMs, 23 IMs, 2 WGMs, 30 FMs and 1 WIM) |
| Games played: | 360 (5 games were forfeited) |
| Competition format: | Round Robin |
| Final order decided by: | 1. Match points; 2. Game points |
| Time control: | |
| Sources: | Supplied NZZ clippings 1997; Riehener Zeitung online archive; sui-SMM.pgn; FIDE January and July 1997. |
| Data notes: | All 360 board results reconstructed. Source moves retained. Dates of rounds 3-7 remain incomplete. Borner-Almada result corrected using NZZ and final standings. Several identities and federations remain unconfirmed; see audit report. |
| PGN game file: | 97swiss.pgn |