18th Friedrich
World Championhsip
John McCullough
is
Friedrich World Champion 2023 !!
On 10 Sept, 2023, he won
as "Friedrich" in Berlin the final against
Christian "Elisabeth" Blattner,
Alex "Maria" Calderon and
Bjorn von "Pompadour-"Knorring.

The latter 3 promoted to Friedrich Grandmasters.
The participants:
First row (v.l.n.r.):Klaus Blum, Guy Atkinson, Jose Bonilla Rau, Ramon Rubio, Maurice de Wijs, John McCullough.
2nd row: Andrew Brown, Arnold de Wijs, Mark Luta, Jürgen Winter, Daniel Zarazaga, Stephan Jordan, Loughlin Deegan.
3rd row: Alex Calderon, Bartek Żmuda, Steffen Schröder, Marcus Straßmann, Michael Kothe, Karsten Droste, Stefan Schönweiß, Tobias Kriener, Bernd Preiß, Peteer hannappel, David Önkür, Alex Schröder.
In the sunshine: Christian Blattner.
Unvisible:Bjorn von Knorring.