vs Calvi, Stefan (2015)
1 – 0 · LossChess scores are always written White first. Elias had Black here.
Board fifteen, Black, against Stefan Calvi (2015). He mated me on move 45 after three and a half hours. I beat him at this event last year and this was the first time he had White against me. The report had him right. He opened 1.e4 like he has in twenty-one games out of twenty-one, put the bishop on e3 and the queen on d2, and pushed the h-pawn at me on move 11, and all of that was in the document, so I played the first ten moves almost without thinking and after move ten his clock read 1:16 and mine read 1:32. Sixteen minutes up on a man rated 217 above me. Over my first twenty-three moves the engine has me giving away about a fifth of a pawn a move, and it does not judge a single one of them as a mistake. Then I made it sharp, because that is the game I wanted out of this pairing. On move 22 I pushed the d-pawn and blew the board up with about fifteen minutes each, and from there we both played four moves in under a minute apiece with the time control still fifteen moves away. The engine says the position was level after every one of them. On move 29 he took a rook on e5 and I answered with a queen move that does not take it back. I miscalculated and I was a rook down. Qxe5 was the move, it is the engine's first, and I found it myself in the post-mortem. Four moves later I traded queens because I thought I still had both rooks, and I only worked out where the second one had gone after the trade was on the board. He mated me on the h-file eleven moves after that. We went through the whole thing together afterwards and he loved the game. He said the preparation was accurate, he could not work out why I was still in prep in a structure he has never faced in his life, and he did not know you could prepare somebody's habits with openings they have never played. Still two points, and 40th.
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Line above the middle = his opponent is better. Below = Elias is better. · Dots mark mistakes.
Calvi's suggestion after the game: 11...h6 instead of 11...h5. The pawn still has to go to h5 a move later, and by then White has castled and the a-file is open. The engine has 11...h5 first of everything and 11...h6 sixth.
The move I thought about and discarded. 26.Bxe4 hits the bishop on b7 and the knight on h7 is still mine to take, so I cannot save both. Taking the knight first is the engine's move and keeps the game level.
What I worked out in the post-mortem. Queens and rooks come off, I keep the knight, and the ending is rook and knight each. It is the engine's first line move for move.
Every board of round 5
32 boards
| Bd | White | Rtg | Result | Rtg | Black |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Donets, Alina 4 | 1914 | ½ – ½ | 2018 | Hamzic, Vahidin 3.5 |
| 2 | Schindele, Andreas 3.5 | 1989 | ½ – ½ | 1958 | CM Hinteregger, Arthur 3.5 |
| 3 | Hasanovic, Nurija 3 | 1924 | 0 – 1 | 2059 | Narr, Kevin 3 |
| 4 | Wagner, Samuel 3 | 1895 | ½ – ½ | 1981 | Halilovic, Husejin 3 |
| 5 | Zaynard, Andreas 3 | 1930 | ½ – ½ | 1954 | Rukwid, Marc 3 |
| 6 | Magos, Christos 2.5 | 1858 | 0 – 1 | 1985 | Monschein, Wolfgang Dr. 2.5 |
| 7 | Fellmayr, Simon 2.5 | 1943 | ½ – ½ | 1831 | Broncel, Kevin 2.5 |
| 8 | Neumann, Ramona 2.5 | 1752 | 0 – 1 | 1942 | Ertl, Taliesin 2.5 |
| 9 | Privitera, Franco 2.5 | 1938 | 1 – 0 | 1720 | Chan, Chi Ngo 2.5 |
| 10 | Putz, Lukas 2.5 | 1617 | 1 – 0 | 1933 | Prüll, Lukas 2.5 |
| 11 | Zesewitz, Maik 2.5 | 1930 | 1 – 0 | 1717 | Perfler, Daniel 2.5 |
| 12 | Dannehr, Jürgen 2.5 | 1919 | 1 – 0 | 1701 | Koller, Doris 2.5 |
| 13 | Rella, Mario 2.5 | 1627 | 0 – 1 | 1896 | Szobries, Harald 2.5 |
| 14 | Zesewitz, Marco 2 | 1811 | 0 – 1 | 2064 | Blum, Gernot 2 |
| 15 | Calvi, Stefan 2 | 2015 | 1 – 0 | 1798 | Teubner, Elias 2 |
| 16 | Eichstädt, Enrico 2 | 1913 | ½ – ½ | 2008 | Krüger, Alexander 2 |
| 17 | Schmied, Hagen Matthias 2 | 1717 | 1 – 0 | 1840 | Löffelholz, Christian 2 |
| 18 | Haider, Jonas 1.5 | 1847 | 0 – 1 | 1755 | Broneder Sen, Kurt 2 |
| 19 | Brandstetter, Markus 1.5 | 2027 | ½ – ½ | 1720 | Kuttnig, Roland 1.5 |
| 20 | Petersohn, Sadko 1.5 | 1768 | 1 – 0 | 1846 | Broneder, Kurt 1.5 |
| 21 | Pichler, Clemens 1.5 | 1845 | ½ – ½ | 1672 | Bechtle, Moritz 1.5 |
| 22 | Scharler, Walter 1.5 | 1752 | 0 – 1 | 1831 | Ljubic, Zvonimir 1.5 |
| 23 | Viehhauser, Simon 1.5 | 1722 | 0 – 1 | 1779 | Gall, Konrad 1.5 |
| 24 | Kranewitter, Alexander 1.5 | 1779 | 0 – 1 | 1527 | Szakolczai, Adam 1.5 |
| 25 | Böhme, Sebastian 1 | 1795 | 1 – 0 | 1672 | Bräuer, Mario 1.5 |
| 26 | Schinwald, Florian 1 | 1744 | ½ – ½ | 1736 | Oita-Dragota, Alexandru-Teodor 1 |
| 27 | Dragovic, Nikola 1 | 1724 | 0 – 1 | 1617 | Mohammad, Baran 1 |
| 28 | Juranovic, Igor 1 | 1693 | ½ – ½ | 1735 | Löw, Bernd 0.5 |
| 29 | Gauß, Andreas 0.5 | 1773 | ½ – ½ | 1607 | Vinaykumar, Kupur Nagaraju 0.5 |
| 30 | Hemanth Gowda, Parinitha 0.5 | 1606 | ½ – ½ | 1750 | Bieniok, Alfred 0 |
| 31 | Roubik, Vit 3 | 1741 | Bye (½) | — | no opponent this round |
| 32 | Ljubic, Marin 0 | 1729 | Bye (0) | — | no opponent this round |
The result is written from White's side: 1 – 0 means White won. The small number beside a name is the score that player brought into the round.