Dortmund: Paehtz and Wagner draw their first encounter

A 78-move draw

The match between the two highest-rated German women players, Elisabeth Paehtz and Dinara Wagner, started on Sunday. Wagner got the white pieces.

The district mayor of Dortmund-Huckarde opened the match, not without first mentioning the importance of the event for Huckarde.

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Wagner gained an advantage and had a promising position in the middlegame. Immediately after the game, both players recognised 22.e4? as a mistake that greatly reduced White's advantage.

As a result, Wagner was able to get an endgame with an extra pawn, but Paehtz drew the game very confidently.

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Elisabeth Paehtz

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On the first board, GM Anton Korobov entered a Najdorf theoretical duel with Julian Nöldner. Korobov gradually gained an advantage and finally won in the rook and bishop endgame.

German grandmaster Frederik Svane also won convincingly on the second board, played on the stage of the venue. Meanwhile, GM Luis Quesada made particularly short work of his opponent, winning with Black in a remarkable 21-move win.

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All in all, a good day for the participating grandmasters in the A-Open.

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Krishnan Sasikiran, the fourth seed in the A-Open

Standings after round 2

Rk.	SNo		Name	sex	FED	RtgI	RtgN	Pts.	TB1	TB2
1	21	FM	Weishäutel, Moritz	M	GER	2400	2403	2	2	5
	31	FM	Zamengo, Fulvio	M	ITA	2342	0	2	2	5
3	1	GM	Korobov, Anton	M	UKR	2648	2645	2	2	4,5
	5	GM	Quesada Perez, Luis Ernesto	M	CUB	2576	0	2	2	4,5
5	6	GM	Romanov, Evgeny	M	MKD	2567	2562	2	2	4
	18	IM	Kügel, Tobias	M	GER	2419	2403	2	2	4
	26	FM	Zemach, Nadav	M	ISR	2384	0	2	2	4
	27	IM	Altini, Nicola	M	ITA	2374	0	2	2	4
	157		Green, Michael	M	ENG	1976	0	2	2	4
10	12	IM	Petrovskyi, Vadim	M	GER	2440	2472	2	1,5	5,5
11	2	GM	Svane, Frederik	M	GER	2636	2627	2	1,5	5
	4	GM	Sasikiran, Krishnan	M	IND	2579	2597	2	1,5	5
	8	GM	Gavrilescu, David	M	ROU	2534	2536	2	1,5	5
	11	IM	Zwirs, Nico	M	NED	2467	2474	2	1,5	5
	25	IM	Meins, Gerlef	M	GER	2384	2361	2	1,5	5
	34	FM	Gallasch, Jonas	M	GER	2260	2327	2	1,5	5
	42		Knudsen, Simon	M	GER	2251	2265	2	1,5	5
18	3	GM	Yoo, Christopher Woojin	M	USA	2616	0	2	1,5	4,5
19	29	GM	Hoang, Thanh Trang	W	HUN	2354	2339	2	1	6
	32	FM	Bashirov, Kemal	M	UKR	2339	2318	2	1	6

...191 players

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