{"id":35283,"date":"2025-05-24T12:29:55","date_gmt":"2025-05-24T12:29:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.fide.com\/?p=35283"},"modified":"2025-05-24T13:18:35","modified_gmt":"2025-05-24T13:18:35","slug":"vincent-keymer-and-diana-wagner-win-2025-german-championship","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.fide.com\/vincent-keymer-and-diana-wagner-win-2025-german-championship\/","title":{"rendered":"Vincent Keymer and Dinara Wagner win 2025 German Championship"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t
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Vincent Keymer and Dinara Wagner have emerged as the new German chess champions. Keymer confirmed his status as the pre-tournament favorite by winning the title in convincing fashion, while top seed Wagner triumphed over WGM Hanna Marie Klek in an exciting tiebreaker.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t

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The 2025 German Championships took place at Fat Cat GmbH, Munich, Germany, from May 15-23. Both the Masters and Women\u2019s Masters were 10-player round-robin tournaments played under classical time controls. Additionally, Candidates tournaments for lower-rated players were held in both sections.<\/p>

The Masters event was dominated by Vincent Keymer, who steamrolled the competition scoring an impressive 7\/9. Despite a last-round loss to Alexander Donchenko, Keymer had already secured the title with a round to spare.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t

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Reigning European Champion Matthias Bluebaum took silver with 5.5\/9, while Dennis Wagner completed the podium. Wagner\u2019s crucial final-round victory over Marco Dobrikov and his head-to-head win against Frederik Svane gave him the edge for third place.<\/p>

Final standings \u2013 Masters<\/strong><\/p>

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The Women\u2019s Masters followed a much tighter script, coming down to the wire as IM Dinara Wagner (pictured below, right) and WGM Hanna Marie Klek (pictured below, left) entered the final round tied for first place at 6\/8. Both players drew their final-round games, finishing tied at 6.5\/9.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t

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A two-game rapid tiebreaker was played to determine the champion. Despite being in a lost position in the first game, Wagner rallied to win both encounters and claim the title.<\/p>

Kateryna Dolzhykova finished a full point behind the champion and runner-up, securing the bronze medal.<\/p>

Final standings \u2013 Women\u2019s Masters<\/strong><\/p>

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Photos: German Chess Federation \/ Stev Bonhage; Deutscher Schachbund Facebook<\/p>

Official website: schachbund.de\/deutsche-meisterschaften-2025.html<\/a> <\/strong><\/p>

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Vincent Keymer and Dinara Wagner have emerged as the new German chess champions. Keymer confirmed his status as the pre-tournament favorite by winning the title in convincing fashion, while top seed Wagner triumphed over WGM Hanna Marie Klek in an exciting tiebreaker. The 2025 German Championships took place at Fat Cat GmbH, Munich, Germany, from May 15-23. Both the Masters and Women\u2019s Masters were 10-player round-robin tournaments played under classical time controls. Additionally, Candidates tournaments for lower-rated players were held in both sections. The Masters event was dominated by Vincent Keymer, who steamrolled the competition scoring an impressive 7\/9. Despite a last-round loss to Alexander Donchenko, Keymer had already secured the title with a round to spare. Reigning European Champion Matthias Bluebaum took silver with 5.5\/9, while Dennis Wagner completed the podium. Wagner\u2019s crucial final-round victory over Marco Dobrikov and his head-to-head win against Frederik Svane gave him the edge for third place. Final standings \u2013 Masters 1 GM Keymer, Vincent 2720 7 2 GM Bluebaum, Matthias 2660 5\u00bd 3 GM Wagner, Dennis 2616 5 4 GM Svane, Frederik 2671 5 5 GM Svane, Rasmus 2629 4\u00bd 6 GM Donchenko, Alexander 2615 4\u00bd 7 IM Costa, Leonardo 2531 4\u00bd 8 GM Kraemer, Martin 2581 3\u00bd 9 GM Huschenbeth, Niclas 2601 3\u00bd 10 IM Dobrikov, Marco 2404 2 The Women\u2019s Masters followed a much tighter script, coming down to the wire as IM Dinara Wagner (pictured below, right) and WGM Hanna Marie Klek (pictured below, left) entered the final round tied for first place at 6\/8. Both players drew their final-round games, finishing tied at 6.5\/9. A two-game rapid tiebreaker was played to determine the champion. Despite being in a lost position in the first game, Wagner rallied to win both encounters and claim the title. Kateryna Dolzhykova finished a full point behind the champion and runner-up, securing the bronze medal. Final standings \u2013 Women\u2019s Masters 1 IM Wagner, Dinara 2403 6\u00bd 2 WGM Klek, Hanna Marie 2322 6\u00bd 3 WGM Dolzhykova, Kateryna 2331 5\u00bd 4 WGM Schneider, Jana 2314 5 5 FM Schulze, Lara 2340 4\u00bd 6 WFM Peglau, Charis 2138 4\u00bd 7 WGM Sieber, Fiona 2232 4\u00bd 8 WGM Heinemann, Josefine 2321 4\u00bd 9 WFM Kostak, Tetyana 2092 2 10 WFM Sickmann, Lisa 1970 1\u00bd Photos: German Chess Federation \/ Stev Bonhage; Deutscher Schachbund Facebook Official website: schachbund.de\/deutsche-meisterschaften-2025.html \u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":35286,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[58,297],"regular":[],"sticky-post":[],"class_list":["post-35283","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-chess-news","tag-germany","tag-national-championship"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fide.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35283","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fide.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fide.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fide.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fide.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=35283"}],"version-history":[{"count":26,"href":"https:\/\/www.fide.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35283\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":35314,"href":"https:\/\/www.fide.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35283\/revisions\/35314"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fide.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/35286"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fide.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35283"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fide.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=35283"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fide.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=35283"},{"taxonomy":"regular","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fide.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/regular?post=35283"},{"taxonomy":"sticky-post","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fide.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/sticky-post?post=35283"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}