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Deutsche Schach-Amateurmeisterschaft 2024-2025 Q7 A

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23 players participated in this 5-round tournament, held from 23 May 2025 to 25 May 2025 in Travemuende, Germany. 10 titled players. Top 10 Elo average was 2215, and top seed was Markus Hochgraefe (🇩🇪 GER, FM, 2355).

Daniel Lichtmannecker (🇩🇪 GER, CM, 2159) won with 4.5/5, ahead of Maximilian Menzel (4.5) and Finn Helms (3.5). Lichtmannecker shared the lead from round 4, winning on tie-break.

The biggest upset came in round 3: Sebastian Hoffmann (2051) beat Maurice Gulatz (CM, 2240), a +189-point gap.

Location
🇩🇪Travemuende, Germany
Dates
23 May 2025 → 25 May 2025
Time control
Standard: 90 minutes for first 40 moves and 15 min. for the rest of the game with 30 sec. increment from move 1
System
Swiss · 5 rounds
Top seed
🇩🇪FMMarkus Hochgraefe2355
Avg top 10
2,215
Participants
23
Titled players · 10
FM×5
CM×5
Federations · 1 represented
🇩🇪Germany×23
Top 3

How it unfolded

Top 6 · 5 rounds

Tight race until R5; 2 players tied at 4.5/5, decided on Buchholz. Title race narrowed from 3 co-leaders at R4 to 2 at the finish.

Co-leaders
10
2
6
3
2
1.52.545R1R2R3R4R5
Menzel4.5Lichtmannecker4.5Skibbe3.5Helms3.5Guo3.5Bosselmann3
R5 · TIEBREAK CLUSTER

2 players finish on 4.5/5. Lichtmannecker takes the title on Buchholz Cut1 (11.0).

R3–R5 · WIN STREAK

CM Daniel Lichtmannecker won 3 in a row (R3–R5).

Key matchups · top 4

Head-to-head between the four finishers
Player1234
1Maximilian Menzel*———
2CMDaniel Lichtmannecker—*—
1
3FMWilli Skibbe——*—
4Finn Helms—
0
—*

Grille américaine

#PlayerEloFedR1R2R3R4R5PtsBu C1BuSBPerfΔ
1Lichtmannecker, DanielCM2159GER+22B=12N+17B+3N+4B4.511.011.510.252489+35.0
2Menzel, Maximilian2168GER+10N+23B=6N+11B+9N4.510.511.09.502471+31.4
3Helms, Finn2087GER+13B=4N+7B−1B+11N3.513.516.09.752333+66.0
4Guo, Philipp Ziming2207GER+19N=3B+8N+6B−1N3.513.515.08.752255+12.4
5Skibbe, WilliFM2188GER−6B+22N+23N=9B+8N3.58.59.04.752243+7.4
6Sommer, Justus2082GER+5N+21B=2B−4N=7N3.014.515.58.252256+47.6
7Bosselmann, Tom Linus2231GER+16N=8B−3N+10N=6B3.011.513.57.252163-8.8
8Bub, VolkerCM2081GER+9B=7N−4B+17N−5B2.512.514.05.502184+14.0
9Weidenhoefer, MaxCM2171GER−8N+19B+15N=5N−2B2.512.514.05.252164-0.8
10Hoffmann, Sebastian2051GER−2B+13N+18N−7B=14B2.512.514.05.252231+23.2
11Buchholz, Sebastian2160GER+20B=17N+12B−2N−3B2.512.013.54.752118-5.8
12Cmiel, ThorstenFM2122GER+18N=1B−11N=22B=13B2.511.011.55.252159+4.8
13Molinaroli, MartinFM2161GER−3N−10B+21N+15B=12N2.510.511.54.252130-4.2
14Hochgraefe, Markus, Dr.FM2355GER=21N−15B=19N+18B=10N2.57.58.54.002160-12.3
15Riemay, DavidCM2266GER−17B+14N−9B−13N+23B2.09.09.53.002103-22.0
16Cordts, IngoFM2154GER−7B−18B=20N=23N+21B2.07.07.52.002077-10.4
17Meiwes, Thore2124GER+15N=11B−1N−8B—1.59.511.53.252080-5.4
18Gulatz, MauriceCM2240GER−12B+16N−10B−14N=20B1.59.511.02.752005-31.4
19Thomaschke, Dirk2119GER−4B−9N=14BF+22N1.59.09.01.752115-1.4
20Hagemeister, Philipp2087GER−11NF=16B=21B=18N1.57.07.02.252083-1.2
21Federau, Juergen2124GER=14B−6N−13B=20N−16N1.010.011.52.001928-24.6
22Kull, Florian2075GER−1N−5BF=12N−19B0.512.012.01.251825-22.0
23Neumann, Michael2063GERF−2N−5B=16B−15N0.512.012.01.001872-16.2

Key insights

Biggest movers and upsets — the story behind the numbers.

Top rating gainers
Top rating losers
Biggest upsets