19th Friedrich World Championship, 2024

The Participants


This year, 26 players participated in the tournament. For four players it was the first FWC.

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

Due to the format, the number of participants has to be a multiple of 4. Therefore, Anton Telle, Thorsten Hennig and 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 16: Jonathan L. is thinking about his defence against France (Richard Sivél).

The 26 participating players were:
Guy Atkinson (SPA)
Christian Blattner (GER)
Klaus Blum (GER)
Jon Brede Smith (NOR)
Andrew Brown (UK)
Loughlin Deegan (IRL)
Christian Dickhausen(GER)
Bjorn von Knorring (SWE)
Andreas K. (GER)
Bernhard Kollmuss
Tobias Kriener (GER)
Marian Leimbach (GER)
Jonathan L. (AUT)

 Mark Luta (SLK)
Son-Khuê Nguyên (GER)
John McCullough (UK)
David Önkür (GER)
Bernd Preiß (GER)
Alexander Schröder (GER)
Steffen Schröder (GER)
Marcus Straßmann (GER)
Arnold de Wijs (NL)
Mauric de Wijs (NL)
Jürgen Winter (GER)
Bartek Żmuda (POL)
Andreas Z. (GER)

And as spontaneous helpers:
Thorsten Hennig
 Richard Sivél
 Anton Telle