In the NC World Masters of the 50th International Dortmund Chess Days, German participant Dmitrij Kollars faced world no. 3 Fabiano Caruana. Kollars played a fantastic game with Black, and had a dangerous passed pawn on c2.
In the morning, Pola Seemann played with Black against her closest rival Dr. Burkhard Behle from SV Eichlinghofen. The game ended in a draw, which did not change the situation at the top of the table.
On the second board of the A-Open of the 50th International Dortmund Chess Days on Wednesday there was thea match between the current German number 2 and 3: Alexander Donchenko had White against last year's European Champion Matthias Blübaum.
Pola Seemann had to play with Black against the strong youngster Oleksandr Kasapchuk from Schachfreunde Brackel in the B-Open today. She was able to continue her winning streak and now stands at 6 out of 6! Among the pursuers, only Dr. Burkhard Behle was able to score full points, so that he is only half a point behind with 5.5 points. Tomorrow he has the chance to challenge the leading Polish girl with White.