The B-Open of the Sparkassen Chess Trophy now has a sole leader: Pola Seemann (photo) won on the third board against Henri Berlet. The Polish player is only 14 years old and has won all 5 games so far.

The Sportland NRW Cup goes into the fifth round today on four boards instead of five. IM Vadym Petrovskyi is ill and his game against FM Hussain Besou (photo) will be played in the morning in the coming days. Petrovskyi expects to be back at the board tomorrow. We wish him a speedy recovery!

Last year, in the absence of Vladimir Kramnik, he already stunned the spectators and experts with his tournament victory in the NC World Masters of the Sparkassen Chess Trophy. Now Dmitrij Kollars first tournament game was against the 10-time Dortmund winner.

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.