2oth Friedrich World Championship, 2025

The Participants


Due to many last minute cancellations, only 17 players participated at the FWC this year. One player gave his FWC-debut.

The players came from the following countries: Germany (8), Spain (1), Great Britain (1), 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, Alex Schröder, Anton Telle, Thorsten Hennig, Richard Shako, and the Friedrich designer Richard Sivél jumped in. They 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 3: Steffen Schröder, FWC-participant since the 1st FWC (as his T-shirt proofs) is moving his Austrian pieces.




Game 9: Loughlin Deegan is moving his Russian pieces.

The 17 participating players were:
Guy Atkinson (SPA)
Christian Blattner (GER)
Klaus Blum (GER)
Jon Brede Smith (NOR)
Arvid Breitenbach (GER)
Andrew Brown (UK)
Loughlin Deegan (IRL)
Peter Hannappel (GER)
Bjorn von Knorring (SWE)

 Tobias Kriener (GER)
Mark Luta (SLK)
Bernd Preiß (GER)
Steffen Schröder (GER)
Arnold de Wijs (NL)
Mauric de Wijs (NL)
Jürgen Winter (GER)
Igor Mróz (POL)
And as spontaneous helpers:
Thorsten Hennig
Richard Shako
 Alex Schröder
Richard Sivél
 Anton Telle