Today the semi-finals are played.
The heat down by 20 degrees compared to thursday.

The weekend and so the registration for the weekend has started.. coming in the building I meet a lot of new and old friends who arrived to play the weekend tournament.

In the semifinals of the european championship we see Lukas Podpera 7d playing Ilya Shiksin 3p and Artem Kachanovskyi 2p playing against Stanislaw Frejlak 7d.
So both matches give us a clash between Pro and Amateur.

In both games fighting all over the board, no one wanting to give in to the opponents way of playing.
Now and again a few visitors enter the room, to make a picture or just watch part of the moves being played live..

Both games showed us a more or less equal game where the professionals got the influence and the amateurs went for territory. The games than ended in fights for life and death in both cases the professionals won the game.
This means the final will be played between two pros and the small final is a clash between the two amateurs.

All results and the pairing for the finals can be found here.