ff 14th FWC, participants


14th Friedrich World Championship, 2019

The Participants


Altogether, 27 players paricipated in the 14th FWC. For 3 players it was their first participation.

The players came from the following countries: Germany (16), Spain (4), Great Britain (2), Netherlands (2), Norway (1), Sweden (1), USA (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.


Gamel 1: Guy Atkinson and David Önkür.


Game 22: Andrew Brown moving his Prussians.
These 27 players participated:
Guy Atkinson (ESP)
Christian Blattner (GER)
Klaus Blum (GER)
Jose Bonilla Rau (ESP)
Andrew Brown (UK)
Andreas Buschhaus (GER)
Alejandro Calderón (ESP)
Christian Dickhausen (GER)
Peter Hannappel (GER)
Stephan Jordan (GER)
Christoph Kaminski (GER)
Bjorn von Knorring (GER)
Mark Luta (USA)
John McCullough (UK)

 David Önkür(GER)
Alberto Romero (ESP)
Timo Saddig (GER)
Philipp Schmidt (GER)
Felix Schmucker (GER)
Alexander Schröder (GER)
Jon Brede Smith (NOR)
Marcus Straßmann (GER)
Anton Telle (GER)
Arnold de Wijs (NL)
Maurice de Wijs (NL)
Jürgen Winter (GER)
Andreas Zölitz (GER)
And as fill-in player:
Richard Sivél