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Day 4 of 8 · Wednesday, 5 August 2026 · Round 5 Tag 4 von 8 · Mittwoch, 5. August 2026 · Runde 5

He could not work out why I was still in my prep Er hat sich nicht erklären können, warum ich noch im Prep war

2 / 5
On the day An diesem Tag

points out of the game played Punkte aus der Partie

40 / 62
Rank that evening Platz an dem Abend

he was seeded 32, so that is 8 places worse gesetzt war er als 32, das sind 8 Plätze schlechter

1813
Performance Turnierleistung

the strength these results are worth, against his own 1798 die Stärke, die diese Ergebnisse wert sind, gegen seine eigenen 1798

+0.8
Rating Elo

what the day did to his rating was der Tag mit seiner Elo gemacht hat

Schwarzacher Open 2026Tournament diary

Day 45 Aug 2026

He could not work out why I was still in my prep

Today's games

  • R5Calvi2015Loss

Score

2/ 50

today · 1 game

Rank

40-8

vs seed 32

Performance

1813+15

vs rating 1798

Rating change

+0.8

since the start

Schwarzacher Open 2026Turniertagebuch

Tag 45. Aug. 2026

Er hat sich nicht erklären können, warum ich noch im Prep war

Partien heute

  • R5Calvi2015Niederlage

Punkte

2/ 50

heute · 1 Partie

Rang

40-8

vs Startrang 32

Turnierleistung

1813+15

vs Elo 1798

Elo-Änderung

+0,8

seit Turnierstart

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The long version Die lange Fassung

Game five, Black against Stefan Calvi (2015), board 15. He mated me on move 45 after three and a half hours, and I am 40th.

The report had him right about the first ten moves. 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 after move ten his clock read 1:16 and mine read 1:32. Sixteen minutes up on a man 217 points above me. Over my first twenty-three moves the engine does not judge a single move as a mistake, which has not happened to me before.

Then I made it sharp on purpose. On move 22 I pushed the d-pawn and blew the board up with about fifteen minutes each, and we both played the four moves after that in under a minute apiece with the time control still fifteen moves away. It stayed level the whole way. On move 29 he took a rook on e5, I answered with a queen move that does not take it back, and I was a rook down. Qxe5 was the move and it is the engine's first.

Four moves later I traded queens because I thought I still had both rooks. I only worked out where the second one had gone once the trade was on the board. That is what three and a half hours of a position I made as complicated as I could does to you, and I chose the position.

We went through the game together afterwards and he loved it. 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.

Schwarzacher Open 2026Tournament diary

Move of the day5 Aug 2026

THE RECAPTUREWAS THE WORSTMOVE THERE.

Move 23, and my hand wanted to take the pawn back. I stopped and named other moves first, and the knight went to g4 instead.

Engine has the recapture sixth of six. Three pawns between it and the move I played.

Round 5Move 23Ng4

Schwarzacher Open 2026Turniertagebuch

Zug des Tages5. Aug. 2026

ZURÜCKNEHMENWAR DER ÄRGSTEZUG AM BRETT.

Zug 23, und meine Hand wollte den Bauern zurücknehmen. Ich hab aufgehört und zuerst andere Züge benannt, und stattdessen ist der Springer nach g4 gegangen.

Laut Engine ist das Zurücknehmen der sechste von sechs. Drei Bauern liegen dazwischen.

Runde 5Zug 23Ng4

The move I did not play Der Zug, den ich nicht gespielt hab

Round five, move 23. He had just taken on e5 and there were pawns hanging in both directions, so the automatic move is to take back. My coach told me to name moves that are not a recapture before I recapture, and this is the first time I have done it with the clock running.

The engine has 23...dxe4 as the sixth of the six moves it looked at, and it loses to 24.exf6+ because the pawn recaptures with check while my knight is still on f6. My move is third on that list and 0.16 behind the best one. Three and a bit pawns between the move I played and the move my hand wanted.

One move later I did the same thing in a position that wanted the opposite, and that one cost 1.33. The rule is not never recapture. The rule is ask what the piece you are not taking gets to do with the move you just gave it.

The round Die Runde

Each round in the order he lived it: the report he read before the game, the game itself, the analysis he wrote after it. Then every other board of the round. Jede Runde in der Reihenfolge, in der er sie erlebt hat: der Bericht vor der Partie, die Partie selbst, die Analyse danach. Dann alle anderen Bretter der Runde.

Round 5 Runde 5 · 18:00 · #15

vs gegen Calvi, Stefan (2015)

1 – 0 · Loss Niederlage

Chess scores are always written White first. Elias had Black here. Schachergebnisse stehen immer aus Sicht von Weiß. Elias hatte hier Schwarz.

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. Brett fünfzehn, Schwarz, gegen Stefan Calvi (2015). Nach dreieinhalb Stunden hat er mich im 45. Zug matt gesetzt. Ich hab ihn bei diesem Turnier voriges Jahr geschlagen, und das war das erste Mal, dass er Weiß gegen mich gehabt hat. Der Bericht hat ihn richtig gehabt. Er hat 1.e4 gespielt wie in einundzwanzig von einundzwanzig Partien, den Läufer auf e3 und die Dame auf d2 gestellt und im 11. Zug den h-Bauern auf mich losgelassen, und das ist alles im Dokument gestanden, also hab ich die ersten zehn Züge fast ohne Nachdenken gespielt, und nach dem zehnten Zug sind auf seiner Uhr 1:16 gestanden und auf meiner 1:32. Sechzehn Minuten vorn gegen einen, der 217 Punkte über mir steht. Über meine ersten dreiundzwanzig Züge sieht mich die Engine bei ungefähr einem Fünftel Bauern pro Zug, und sie wertet keinen einzigen davon als Fehler. Dann hab ich es scharf gemacht, weil ich aus dieser Paarung genau diese Partie wollte. Im 22. Zug hab ich den d-Bauern geschoben und das Brett mit Absicht gesprengt, bei ungefähr fünfzehn Minuten auf beiden Uhren, und ab da haben wir beide vier Züge in unter einer Minute gespielt, mit der Zeitkontrolle noch fünfzehn Züge weit weg. Laut Engine ist die Stellung nach jedem einzelnen davon ausgeglichen gewesen. Im 29. Zug hat er auf e5 einen Turm genommen und ich hab mit einem Damenzug geantwortet, der ihn nicht zurücknimmt. Ich hab mich verrechnet und war einen Turm hinten. Dxe5 wäre der Zug gewesen, das ist der erste der Engine, und gefunden hab ich ihn selber in der Analyse nachher. Vier Züge später hab ich die Damen getauscht, weil ich geglaubt hab, ich hätt noch beide Türme, und wo der zweite hin ist, hab ich erst gemerkt, als der Tausch schon am Brett war. Elf Züge danach hat er mich auf der h-Linie matt gesetzt. Wir sind die Partie nachher zusammen durchgegangen und sie hat ihm getaugt. Er hat gesagt, das Prep war genau, er hat sich nicht erklären können, warum ich in einer Struktur, die er noch nie am Brett gehabt hat, immer noch in der Vorbereitung war, und er hat nicht gewusst, dass man die Gewohnheiten von jemandem mit Eröffnungen vorbereiten kann, die der nie gespielt hat. Weiter zwei Punkte, und Rang 40.

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Line above the middle = his opponent is better. Below = Elias is better. · Dots mark mistakes.

#WhiteBlack
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His clock read 1:16 and mine read 1:32, because I blitzed out the moves we had talked about.
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He thought h6 was more accurate for me here. I disagreed with him at the board and I still do.
My line11…12.13.14.15.
+1.3

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.

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He said he did not even see Nf6. He calculated for a while and then he saw why it works.
Engine · Interesting12…13.14.15.16.
-0.6
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1:00 for him and 1:05 for me. I spent time on the last couple of moves because I calculated a lot of alternatives instead of Nf6 two moves earlier. I do not know why he never took my rook, because on d8 I think it is insane.
Engine · Interesting15…16.17.18.19.
-0.1
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I thought trading the dark-squared bishops was fine for me. He cannot really attack my king with a bishop that is out of the game anyway, and his knights were not doing a lot. He still tried.
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I was thinking about either e5 or d5, and then I thought he has to shut it down, because leaving the tension or taking is just worse for him.
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Engine · Interesting20.21.22.23.
+0.5
Twenty minutes for him and twenty-nine for me. I do not know why he played Rfe1, because as I said I thought he had to shut the pawns down, so now I kick the queen out to one of the files my rooks are standing on and open him up. I do not know what the engine says, but I am pretty confident it agrees with me this time.
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Now I blow up the board and make it as complicated as possible. We both had about fifteen minutes in this position.
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I took your advice and thought about not recapturing straight away. The knight on g4 is so strong it restricts everything, and now that the diagonal to his king is open he cannot kick it out with f3 because of Qc5+ and he dies.
Engine · Interesting23…24.25.26.27.
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Engine · Best24…25.26.27.28.
+0.2
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Engine · Best25.26.27.28.
+1.3
Here I thought about Nxe5 for a moment and discarded it. I do not know why.
My line25…26.27.28.29.
+4.1

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.

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I thought about a lot of other moves and ended up taking the bishop, because we both had under a minute and it was too complicated to calculate with the time control still miles away.
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Engine · Best27…28.29.30.31.
+0.2
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Engine · Best28.29.30.31.
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I thought Ng5 was more precise, but he did not find it.
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This is where I blundered the game away, because I was stupid. I should have played Qxe5 and after Qxe5 Nxe5 Ne4 I get a slightly more comfortable and less complex endgame, but I miscalculated and I lose a rook.
My line29…30.31.
-0.1

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.

Engine · Best29…30.31.32.33.
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Engine · Interesting33.34.35.36.
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I was so tired that I thought I still had both rooks. That is why I traded, and only afterwards did I ask myself where the other one had gone.
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I still played on, because maybe I can get him to stalemate me.
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Every board of round 5 Alle Bretter der Runde 5

32 boards 32 Bretter

Bd Br. White Weiß Result Erg. Black Schwarz
1 Donets, Alina 4 ½ – ½ Hamzic, Vahidin 3.5
2 Schindele, Andreas 3.5 ½ – ½ CM Hinteregger, Arthur 3.5
3 Hasanovic, Nurija 3 0 – 1 Narr, Kevin 3
4 Wagner, Samuel 3 ½ – ½ Halilovic, Husejin 3
5 Zaynard, Andreas 3 ½ – ½ Rukwid, Marc 3
6 Magos, Christos 2.5 0 – 1 Monschein, Wolfgang Dr. 2.5
7 Fellmayr, Simon 2.5 ½ – ½ Broncel, Kevin 2.5
8 Neumann, Ramona 2.5 0 – 1 Ertl, Taliesin 2.5
9 Privitera, Franco 2.5 1 – 0 Chan, Chi Ngo 2.5
10 Putz, Lukas 2.5 1 – 0 Prüll, Lukas 2.5
11 Zesewitz, Maik 2.5 1 – 0 Perfler, Daniel 2.5
12 Dannehr, Jürgen 2.5 1 – 0 Koller, Doris 2.5
13 Rella, Mario 2.5 0 – 1 Szobries, Harald 2.5
14 Zesewitz, Marco 2 0 – 1 Blum, Gernot 2
15 Calvi, Stefan 2 1 – 0 Teubner, Elias 2
16 Eichstädt, Enrico 2 ½ – ½ Krüger, Alexander 2
17 Schmied, Hagen Matthias 2 1 – 0 Löffelholz, Christian 2
18 Haider, Jonas 1.5 0 – 1 Broneder Sen, Kurt 2
19 Brandstetter, Markus 1.5 ½ – ½ Kuttnig, Roland 1.5
20 Petersohn, Sadko 1.5 1 – 0 Broneder, Kurt 1.5
21 Pichler, Clemens 1.5 ½ – ½ Bechtle, Moritz 1.5
22 Scharler, Walter 1.5 0 – 1 Ljubic, Zvonimir 1.5
23 Viehhauser, Simon 1.5 0 – 1 Gall, Konrad 1.5
24 Kranewitter, Alexander 1.5 0 – 1 Szakolczai, Adam 1.5
25 Böhme, Sebastian 1 1 – 0 Bräuer, Mario 1.5
26 Schinwald, Florian 1 ½ – ½ Oita-Dragota, Alexandru-Teodor 1
27 Dragovic, Nikola 1 0 – 1 Mohammad, Baran 1
28 Juranovic, Igor 1 ½ – ½ Löw, Bernd 0.5
29 Gauß, Andreas 0.5 ½ – ½ Vinaykumar, Kupur Nagaraju 0.5
30 Hemanth Gowda, Parinitha 0.5 ½ – ½ Bieniok, Alfred 0
31 Roubik, Vit 3 Bye (½) Spielfrei (½) no opponent this round kein Gegner in dieser Runde
32 Ljubic, Marin 0 Bye (0) Spielfrei (0) no opponent this round kein Gegner in dieser Runde

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. Das Ergebnis steht aus Sicht von Weiß: 1 – 0 heißt, Weiß hat gewonnen. Die kleine Zahl neben einem Namen ist der Punktestand vor der Runde.

The table after round 5 Die Tabelle nach Runde 5

All 62 players. Elias is 40th with 2 points; his row is the highlighted one. Alle 62 Spieler. Elias ist 40. mit 2 Punkten; seine Zeile ist hervorgehoben.

Rk Pl. Player Spieler Pts Pkt
1 Donets, Alina 4.5
2 Schindele, Andreas 4
3 Hamzic, Vahidin 4
4 Narr, Kevin 4
5 CM Hinteregger, Arthur 4
6 Halilovic, Husejin 3.5
7 Roubik, Vit 3.5
8 Zaynard, Andreas 3.5
9 Wagner, Samuel 3.5
10 Rukwid, Marc 3.5
11 Privitera, Franco 3.5
12 Szobries, Harald 3.5
13 Dannehr, Jürgen 3.5
14 Zesewitz, Maik 3.5
15 Monschein, Wolfgang Dr. 3.5
16 Ertl, Taliesin 3.5
17 Putz, Lukas 3.5
18 Broncel, Kevin 3
19 Hasanovic, Nurija 3
20 Fellmayr, Simon 3
21 Blum, Gernot 3
22 Schmied, Hagen Matthias 3
23 Calvi, Stefan 3
24 Broneder Sen, Kurt 3
25 Magos, Christos 2.5
26 Perfler, Daniel 2.5
27 Koller, Doris 2.5
28 Prüll, Lukas 2.5
29 Krüger, Alexander 2.5
30 Neumann, Ramona 2.5
31 Chan, Chi Ngo 2.5
32 Eichstädt, Enrico 2.5
33 Rella, Mario 2.5
34 Petersohn, Sadko 2.5
35 Ljubic, Zvonimir 2.5
36 Gall, Konrad 2.5
37 Szakolczai, Adam 2.5
38 Böhme, Sebastian 2
39 Zesewitz, Marco 2
40 Teubner, Elias 2
41 Brandstetter, Markus 2
42 Kuttnig, Roland 2
43 Pichler, Clemens 2
44 Löffelholz, Christian 2
45 Bechtle, Moritz 2
46 Mohammad, Baran 2
47 Broneder, Kurt 1.5
48 Oita-Dragota, Alexandru-Teodor 1.5
49 Bräuer, Mario 1.5
50 Scharler, Walter 1.5
51 Haider, Jonas 1.5
52 Viehhauser, Simon 1.5
53 Kranewitter, Alexander 1.5
54 Juranovic, Igor 1.5
55 Schinwald, Florian 1.5
56 Gauß, Andreas 1
57 Dragovic, Nikola 1
58 Vinaykumar, Kupur Nagaraju 1
59 Hemanth Gowda, Parinitha 1
60 Löw, Bernd 1
61 Bieniok, Alfred 0.5
62 Ljubic, Marin 0

Jump to his row (rank 40) ↓ Zu seiner Zeile springen (Platz 40) ↓