5th Friedrich World Championship 2010

The Qualification Round



A: In the Qualification Round, 24 games were played. Remarkable results were:

Game 1: Rodrigo Witzel is without any chance with Prussia. After 2 hours and 40 minutes, Alex Hofmann's Russian hordes are victorious in round 10. But, all players enjoyed the game and had a lot of fun.

Game 2: Peter Hannappel manages the fastest Prussian win: After 14 turns, all attackers are out of the game.

Game 3: Despite the Tsarina's death in turn 10, Ralf Viereck cannot stop Sebastian Wetter's Sweden from winning in turn 14.

Game 4: Mark Luta's Prussians are crowned winner in turn 17. Mark had some luck with an early exiting France (turn 8, Steffen Schröder).

Game 5: Manfred Wichmann is heavily attacked, and in turn 15 he is defeated. Anton Telle and Dennis Kelsey make it a double Austrian-French victory.

Game 6: Richard Sivéls wins with Prussia after 23 turns. Klaus Blum stepped into the so-called Senftenberg-trap twice, which costed him about 40 troops in total.


Game 1: Alex Hofmann has won with Russia. But, as to be seen, all players have a lot fun!

Game 2: Peter Hannappel is thinking over how to defend Saxony. Neither Bernd Preiß (Russia) nor Christian Blattner (Austria) seem to be happy with what they are seeing.


Game 8: Dennis Kelsey moves his Hanoverans. In the background, Andrea Homberg and Steffen Schröder are in deep concentration. This game will be won by Andrea (Russia).

Game 11: Anton Telle is setting a new benchmark for a "thick" TC-stack: In front of the Prussian stack you see the stack of Austria (Malte Heinrich) and of France(Tobias Engelmann).

Game 7: Maurice de Wijs has to surrender in turn 9. The combined attacks of Peter Hannappel, Manfred Wichmann and Rodrigo Witzel were simply too much. In the end Rodrigo is winning with France.

Game 8: Oh No! Oh No! Suddenly a heavy screaming! Stephan Jordan cannot believe his bad fate: Just when his French wiped away everything, India and America are the fate cards of turn 8 and 9! Victory was so close! — So it will be Andrea Homberg's Russia who is defeating Dennis Kelsey's blue heroes (in turn 11).

Game 9: At the neighbouring tabele, it is quite similar: Andreas Zölitz is defeated in turn 9; Daniel Dunbring wins with Russia.

Game 10: Bernd Preiß, the 2008 world champion, is not flexible enough in his defense strategy. His sparse diamonds are the nails his Prussia's coffin. Sebastian Wetter is winning with Austria in turn 15, which makes him for the moment the rank 1 player.

Game 11: "I know that no-one of you three has any Reserve card." With this sentence Anton "Friedrich" Telle is demoralizing his opponents. And, indeed, he is setting a new benchmark for what it means to have a real thick Prussian TC stack (see picture). Anton is winning in turn 20.

Game 12: First it seems to be another Prussian collapse, but after the death of the Tsarina in turn 12 and the exit of France one turn later, Klaus Blum is reaching calm waters and steering his Prussian ship to victory in turn 18.

Game 13: Alex Hofmann has a hard stand. And when Arnold de Wijs came with his Imperial Army, playing a diamonds 13, a 10 and 2 Reserves, thus wiping the Prussian King from the board, it was the start of the end. Eventually, in turn 12, the winner is the Tsarina (Malte Heinrich)

Game 14: Tobias Engelmann makes some heavy mistakes at the start, but is then able to consolidate mentally. But still, the pressure from all sides is too high, and so France (Ralf Viereck) and Austria (Richard Sivél) are winning simultaneously in turn 12.

Game 15: In this game, there is not even one strike of fate until turn 13. But then, they are chasing each other: Elisabeth turn 14, America 15, India 16, Poems 17, Sweden 18. – The only problem is, that Marian Leimbach's Prussia is collapsing in turn 16. Bad luck! Only 2 turns were missing! And so the winner was Austria (Peter Hannappel).

Game 16: Stephan Jordan is under heavy pressure. Even the early death of Tsarina (turn 6) cannot help. Bernd Preiß is winning with France in turn 12.

Game 17: Daniel Dunbrings (Prussia) is almost defeated Klaus Blum (Russia), but then the Tsarina dies in turn 9. Daniel then manages to win; the game went over the full 23 turns.

Game 18: Christian Blattner (Prussia) is sweating blood. Rodrigo Witzel (Austria) ignores Silesia completely, focussing on an Imperial Army win. And he is close to winning, damned close! But then, in turn 13, the Empire switches players, and Prussia wins in turn 17.


Game 13: Alex Hoffmann (Prussia) is thinking over his Silesia position. In few turns his general Friedrich will be wiped off the board.

Game 18: Rodrigo Witzel is playing completely on a Imperial Army win (like he did already 2009). This year, however, his vabanque strategy fails. Christian Blattner wins with Prussia in turn 17.



Game 19: At the moment, Rainer Haslauers defense is safe. But only few turns later, he is start to run out of time and will make most heavy mistakes, which cost him the game.

Game 20: Manfred Wichmann is rubbing his hands. Is he so confident that he will win with Prussia soon?
 		Game 19: Rainer Haslauer starts to run out of time beginning with turn 10. This results in a lot heavy mistakes. Finally, Daniel Dunbring wins with the Imperial Army. This is is third win, which makes him the best player of the qualification round.

Game 20: Sebastian Wetter, best player after 3 games, is now Prussia. A heavy and dramatically attacked Prussia. In turn 13 he collapses, Russia and France are winning at the same time, and Sebastian goes down in ranking (to rank 5) and misses the final game by 1 point.

Game 21: Arnold de Wijs (Prussia) is defeated after 10 turns. Marian Leimbach wins with France.

Game 22: Steffen Schröder is victim to his own nerves. After an early -8 retreat in Silesia, his Magdeburg defense is crumbling, and Russia was close to win all the time anyway. It is Klaus Blum (France) who wins after turn 8. This gives him rank 2 of the qual. round.

Game 23: Björn Steinborn is playing the Prussians much too aggressively, and so he is defeated in turn 11. Winner is Maurice de Wijs (Austria).

Game 24: After 20 long turns, Malte Heinrich is victorious against Mark Luta (Russia), Dennis Kelsey (Austria) and Peter Hannappel (France).



B: Qualification Round Ranking

Rank Spieler Friedr. Elis. M.Ther. Pomp. Total TB
1 Daniel Dunbring 12.0 12.0 12.0 8 44.0
2 Klaus Blum 12.0 9.0 8.3 12.0 41.3
3 Peter Hannappel 12.0 8.0 12.0 9.0 41.0
OoC* Richard Sivél 12.0 9.0 11.5 8.0 40.5 12
4 Anton Telle 12.0 8.0 11.5 9.0 40.5 6
5 Sebastian Wetter 6.5 12.0 12.0 9.0 39.5
6 Malte Heinrich 12.0 12.0 5.0 9.0 38.0
7 Manfr. Wichmann 7.5 8.0 8.8 11.5 35.8
8 Marian Leimbach 8.0 6.0 9.4 12.0 35.4
9 Mark Luta 12.0 6.0 8.3 9.0 35.3
10 Bernd Preiß 7.5 6.0 9.4 12.0 34.9
11 Alex Hofmann 6.0 12.0 9.4 7.0 34.4
12 Dennis Kelsey 5.5 9.0 8.3 11.5 34.3
OoC Homberg,
Steinborn 		5.5 12.0 7.5 9.0 34.0
13 Christian Blattner 12.0 9.0 4.2 8.0 33.2
14 Ralf Viereck 7.0 5.0 8.1 11.5 31.6
15 Maurice de Wijs 4.5 7.0 12.0 8.0 31.5
16 Tobias Engelmann 6.0 11.5 5.0 8.0 30.5
17 Andreas Zölitz 4.5 8.0 8.8 9.0 30.3
18 Rodrigo Witzel 5.0 9.0 4.2 12.0 30.2
19 Rainer Haslauer 6.0 8.0 7.5 8.0 29.5
20 Stephan Jordan 6.0 8.0 8.1 7.0 29.1
21 Arnold de Wijs 5.0 5.0 9.4 9.0 28.4
22 Steffen Schröder 4.0 8.0 9.2 6.0 27.2
TB : Tiebreaker No.1
 OoC : Out of Competition.


Game 6: After the Senftenberg trap – Klaus Blum is collecting his eliminated troops.

Game 14: Dennis Kelsey, Richard Sivél and Ralf Viereck.


The best four players of the qualification round (from left to right): Daniel Dunbring, Klaus Blum, Peter Hannappel and Anton Telle.
So, as the best four of the qualification round
Daniel Dunbring, Klaus Blum, Peter Hannappel und Anton Telle entered the Final Game which started at 17:15.

 Daniel Dunbring as hightest ranked player had first choice of the role. Klaus Blum had the second choice, and so on.

It should be mentioned that Anton Telle did not miss anyone of the 5 Final Games yet. All others of this year's Final played their first Final. (Daniel and Peter even played their first FWC!)