Top seed Gabriel Ruhmann suffered his first defeat in the B-Open today on the first board: Dr. Bukrhard Behle won the game with White. All in all, it was a combative morning: no draws on the first 8 boards. So there are now 6 players left with full points with 4 out of 4.
The young Polish player Pola Seemann (born 2008) made a beautiful attack in the morning with Black against Yi Lin. In the diagram position she took advantage of her tactical chance after 26.Td1:
26... Qxd1+
27. Bxd1 Rxd1+
28. Kh2 Bxe4
and White can only prevent mate with a great loss of material:
29. g4 Rh1+
30 Kg3 Rg1+
31 Kh2 Rg2+
32 Kh1 Rg3+
33 Qxe4 Rxe4
34. Rxg3 cxb4 0-1
Tomorrow she will play against Henri Berlet (born 2007) from the Dortmund club SV Rochade Eving on the third board. In addition, with Oleksandr Kasapchuk another player born in 2008 is in the top group. He is Ukrainian and plays for Schachfreunde Brackel in Dortmund. The other two top games are then:
Kasapchuk - Akhramsyah
De Man - Behle