How - boys? What - grown up? Well, Simon Schwartz und Moritz von Wolzogen! Both of them started out as MOSAIK-interns (Simon for a year and a half, Moritz for half a year) and got awarded at the International Comic-Salon Erlangen 2012: Simon won the Max-und-Moritz-Prize (wow, wow, wow – you are a genius!) and Moritz won 2nd place for the Comicstipendium (brilliant, really!). We sincerely congratulate you and are greatly happy for the both of you! Keep at it!
Moritz von Wolzogen (photo: Bernd Glasstetter)
On June 9th 2012 SC Borussia Friedrichsfelde 1920 e.V. sincerely invited every boy and girl born in 1998 or later to the 16th Abrafaxe Children's Chess Tournament.
The tournament was held in the Mildred-Harnack-Oberschule in Berlin-Lichtenberg and all players were divided in five different age-groups.
The games were played as Swiss-system tournaments to guarantee that no one has to leave the tournament early. Every round lasted 15 minutes and to make sure that the group levels were evenly split, children with a playing ability over 1200 had to play in group A.
It goes without saying that everyone of the 275 players got a price, and beyond that the coveted Abrafaxe-Children's Chess Tournament trophies were awarded.
Here you can see the league table of each group:
| 1. Anh Van Nguyen (l.) | USV Potsdam |
| 2. Gabor Nelk (r.) | SV Empor Berlin |
| 3. Bennett Schnabel (c.) | SG Grün-Weiß Baumschulenweg |
| 1. Marco Reiche (c.) | SC Rochade Emsdetten |
| 2. David Granzin (l.) | SC Kreuzberg |
| 3. Mert Acikel (r.) | VfB Hermsdorf |
| 1. Rachela Rosenhain (l.) | Schachpinguine Berlin |
| 2. Nicholas Chung (c.) | Schachpinguine Berlin |
| 3. Jannis Schulz (r.) | SC Eintracht Berlin |
| 1. Yannick Rüpke (c.) | SG Weißensee 49 |
| 2. Sander Breitzmann (r.) | SV Empor Berlin |
| 3. Maximus Toppel (l.) | SC Zitadelle Spandau |
| 1. Robin Reitmeier (r.) | TuS Makkabi Berlin |
| 2. Lior Sklarski (c.) | TuS Makkabi Berlin |
| 3. Kilian Kruse (l.) | Ev. Grundschule Lichtenberg |
What did the Abrafaxe actually do a hundred years ago?
Klein, drollig und voller Charme [...] Mosaik ist ein Stück Leben.
Angesichts der Omnipräsenz der elektronischen Medien in Kinderzimmern ist die Comiczeitschrift „MOSAIK“ ein liebenswerter Anachronismus. Und ein erfolgreicher dazu.“
Zeichnerisch weiterhin auf höchstem Niveau, ist das Heft ein gelungener Start für die Serie.
