4th FIDE World Chess Championships for People with Disabilities

round 6: Obodchuk is not anymore championship leader due to remis

Written by Peggy Flemming, english version: Philipp Roeder, photos: Karsten Wieland and Peggy Flemming

There were again exciting games today. The current championship leader IM Andreai Obodchuk played "only" remis again FM Jacek Stanchanczyk. Therefore, he is not anymore championship leader.

At table 2, there was an interesting fight in the russian IPCA duel between Artem Anfinogenov and Viktor Strekalovski, where both kings were very open in the middle of the chessboard. Finally, Anfinogenov kept his nerve and won. At table 3 and 5, white also won. The new championship leader is Babarykin, who has 0.5 points a lead over the others.

It is remarkable, that only five games in the 6^th round were remis.

Therefore, the last round will be exciting when Babarykin (5.5 points, white) plays against Dukaczewski (5 points, black) and Obdochuk (5 points) play against Ghadimi (4.5 points).

But there were also closed fights between players who do not have so many points. Snehit Safa (70th in the ranking list) won against Olga Malina (53rd in the ranking list) and the youngest player Raphael Zimmer won against Yuri Alchinidi (35^th in the ranking list, ELO: 1997). In the duel of the women won the student from Dresden, Katharina Kohne, against Irina Trifonova.

Pictures of players (selection)

Here we will show some selected pictures of players today.

visually handicapped players:

left: Sergey Krylov and his chessboard for the blind and visually handicapped players. So he is able to write down the moves in Braille (middle) and Marek Mackowiak (right).

physically-disabled players:

deaf players:

backstage:

Not only the players contribute to a successful tournament but also the the volunteers backstage should be mentioned.