80th German Championship
GM Arik Braun’s last round victory helped him to catch up the leader, GM Michael Prusikin, and become the Champion by a better tie-break. GM Klaus Bischoff has come clear third.
Round 9 top results:
(6½) Prusikin – Bischoff (6) ½-½
(5½) Baramidze – Braun (6) 0-1
(5) Markgraf – Meier (5½) ½-½
(5) Boidman – Fridman (5) 0-1
(5) Khenkin – Tabatt (5) 1-0
(5) Buhmann – Zelbel (5) 1-0
Final Standings:
1-2. A.Braun (2558) and M.Prusikin (2529) – 7
3. K.Bischoff (2545) – 6½
4-7. Khenkin (2644), Meier (2608),
Fridman (2650) and Buhmann (2565) – 6 etc. 44 players
Source: ChessToday.net
Chess Daily News from Susan Polgar
It sucks to decide a national champion based on tiebreaks.
The co-champion idea is even worse. there can be only one champion. Only one can be the best.
Philippine Champ Wesly So beat Prusikin while he was 12 years old in a widely published game a couple or three years ago.
Bad Wiesse 2006
http://www.chessgames.com/perl/
chessgame?gid=1462501
Played the Wesley So – Prusikin game.
Wesley’s rating was 2411 while Prusikin was 2560 at the time.
Wesley sacrificed two pieces!! His two knights, to win the game.
Brilliancy prize game.