18th Friedrich World Championship, 2023

The Participants


This year, 27 players participated in the tournament. For five players it was the first FWC.

The players came from the following countries: Germany (15), Spain (4), Great Britain (2), Netherlands (2), Ireland (1), Poland (1), Slovakia (1), Sweden (1).

Due to the format, the number of participants has to be a multiple of 4. Therefore, the Friedrich designer Richard Sivél jumped in, but played out of competition.

Who was playing who was decided by drawing lots. Like in the previous years, every player could meet each player only once in the tournament. Furthermore, the lots were pre-sorted into pots in such a way that players coming from the same hometown group could not meet each other.


Game 4: Collective thinking.


Game 24. Loughlin Deegan is moving his Russians.
Alex Calderon watches.
The participating players were:
Guy Atkinson (SPA)
Christian Blattner (GER)
Klaus Blum (GER)
Jose Bonilla Rau (SPA)
Andrew Brown (UK)
Alex Calderon (SPA)
Loughlin Deegan (IRL)
Karsten Droste (GER)
Peter Hannappel (GER)
Stephan Jordan (GER)
Bjorn von Knorring (SWE)
Michael Kothe (GER)
Tobias Kriener (GER)
Mark Luta (SLK)

 John McCullough (UK)
David Önkür (GER)
Bernd Preiß (GER)
Ramon Guillamat Rubio (SPA)
Stefan Schönweiß( GER)
Alexander Schröder (GER)
Steffen Schröder (GER)
Marcus Straßmann (GER)
Arnold de Wijs (NL)
Mauric de Wijs (NL)
Jürgen Winter (GER)
Daniel Zarazaga (GER)
Bartek Żmuda (POL)
And as spontaneous helper:

Richard Sivél