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Day 5 of 8 · Thursday, 6 August 2026 · Round 6 Tag 5 von 8 · Donnerstag, 6. August 2026 · Runde 6

My knight and my bishop were on the wrong squares for six moves Mein Springer und mein Läufer sind sechs Züge lang falsch gestanden

3 / 6
On the day An diesem Tag

points out of the game played Punkte aus der Partie

33 / 62
Rank that evening Platz an dem Abend

he was seeded 32, so that is 1 place worse gesetzt war er als 32, das sind 1 Plätze schlechter

1909
Performance Turnierleistung

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

+16.6
Rating Elo

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

Schwarzacher Open 2026Tournament diary

Day 56 Aug 2026

My knight and my bishop were on the wrong squares for six moves

Today's games

  • R6Brandstetter2027Win

Score

3/ 6+1

today · 1 game

Rank

33-1

vs seed 32

Performance

1909+111

vs rating 1798

Rating change

+16.6

since the start

Schwarzacher Open 2026Turniertagebuch

Tag 56. Aug. 2026

Mein Springer und mein Läufer sind sechs Züge lang falsch gestanden

Partien heute

  • R6Brandstetter2027Sieg

Punkte

3/ 6+1

heute · 1 Partie

Rang

33-1

vs Startrang 32

Turnierleistung

1909+111

vs Elo 1798

Elo-Änderung

+16,6

seit Turnierstart

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The long version Die lange Fassung

Game six, White against Markus Brandstetter (2027) on board 19. He is the number three seed of sixty-two and he resigned after my thirtieth move.

I left early to buy yfood and read the scouting report for an hour at the venue, and then the traffic took the whole hour. I walked in about ten minutes late, which is twenty minutes from losing the game to the clock, and he had been sitting there waiting for me. What a nice guy.

So I had skimmed the report that morning and nothing else. What stuck was a bit of the Scotch and some plans against the Sicilian, and a4 before the bishop comes out, and he opened with a line the document does not contain. I got the structure anyway, because the report is written as plans instead of moves. On move 6 I looked down and saw that my queenside knight and my queenside bishop had been standing on each other's squares since before the first move. I put them back and we carried on. The Laws of Chess say the whole game should have been cancelled and replayed, which neither of us knew at the board.

The engine has me worse from move nine to move eighteen and it is not one move, it is eleven of them. I never took his pawn on d4 while it was hanging, I took back with the wrong piece on move 12, and I gave a pawn on move 13 to push his queen out to the edge. He defended that perfectly and kept the pawn for six moves. Then he moved his knight to b4, I won the pawn back on b7, and four moves later he saved a rook when he should have given me the exchange. After that I pushed the f-pawn into his king and gave a bishop on h6.

The move I am annoyed about is one nobody can see. On move 20 I found Bd2, calculated the tactic behind it correctly, and threw it away because I could not find the answer to one reply. The answer is Rb1 and it is the only move there. Three points from six rounds, 33rd, and a tournament performance of 1909 against my own 1798.

Schwarzacher Open 2026Tournament diary

Move of the day6 Aug 2026

THREE MOVES.ONE OF THEMWAS A DRAW.

Move 28, and he has just handed me the rook on f7. I named the two moves I was choosing between before I played one, and I took it with the rook.

Engine: rook +7.99, queen +4.01, and the sacrifice on h6 that I never looked at is 0.00.

Round 6Move 28Rxf7

Schwarzacher Open 2026Turniertagebuch

Zug des Tages6. Aug. 2026

DREI ZÜGE.EINER DAVONWAR REMIS.

Zug 28, und er hat mir gerade den Turm auf f7 hergegeben. Ich hab die zwei Züge, zwischen denen ich mich entscheide, zuerst benannt und dann mit dem Turm genommen.

Engine: Turm +7,99, Dame +4,01, und das Opfer auf h6, das ich gar nicht angeschaut hab, ist 0,00.

Runde 6Zug 28Rxf7

Three moves, and one of them was a draw Drei Züge, und einer davon war remis

Round six, move 28. He gave up his rook on f7 to stop the mate and there were three ways to take it. I thought about two of them, Qxf7 and Rxf7, and I played Rxf7 because it forces him to give a check I can block and then trade into an endgame that is completely winning.

The engine puts Rxf7 at +7.99 and Qxf7 at +4.01, so the move I picked is worth about four pawns more than the other one I had in my hand. The third move is 28.Rxh6+, the sacrifice that opens his king, and it is the one the position is shouting for. It is 0.00. Dead level. I never looked at it.

One more thing the engine says that I did not know: after Rxf7, every black move except Qe1+ is mate in one, and my reply Rf1 is my only legal move. So the endgame was not a choice he made. In round five I had the same kind of decision on move 29, took the complicated one instead of the recapture, and lost a rook. This is the same decision with the answer named out loud first.

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 6 Runde 6 · 18:00 · #19

vs gegen Brandstetter, Markus (2027)

1 – 0 · Win Sieg

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

Board nineteen, White, against Markus Brandstetter (2027), the third seed of sixty-two. He resigned after my thirtieth move. I left early to buy yfood and read the report for an hour at the venue, and the traffic took the whole hour, so I walked into the hall about ten minutes late with twenty minutes left before the clock would have taken the game off me. He waited for me. What a nice guy. So the preparation was a skim on the morning of the game. What stuck was a bit of the Scotch and some plans against the Sicilian, and a4 before the bishop comes out. He answered 1.e4 with 1...c5, I put the f-pawn on f4 on move two and the a-pawn on a4 on move six, and the shape on the board was the one out of the document even though almost none of the moves were. On move 6 I looked down and saw that my queenside knight and my queenside bishop had been standing on each other's squares since before the first move. I put them back and we played on. The Laws of Chess have a different answer to that and I only read it afterwards. The engine has me worse from move nine to move eighteen, and not because of one move. I never took his pawn on d4 while it was hanging, I recaptured with the rook instead of the bishop on move 12, and on move 13 I gave a pawn to push his queen out to a5 and get my rook to h3. He defended the gambit properly and he kept the pawn for six moves. Then he played 18...Nb4 and 21...Rab8, the game turned twice in four moves, and after that I took the pawn back on b7, pushed f4-f5 into his king and gave a bishop on h6. My worst moment is move 20 and nothing on the board shows it. There was 20.Bd2, which I found at the board and threw away because of 20...Qb6. After 20...Qb6 there is 21.Rb1, it is the only move, and the engine puts White more than a pawn above the move I played. I calculated the whole tactic and stopped one move short of the answer. Three points from six rounds, 33rd, and a tournament performance of 1909 against my own 1798. Brett neunzehn, Weiß, gegen Markus Brandstetter (2027), die Nummer drei der Setzliste von zweiundsechzig. Nach meinem dreißigsten Zug hat er aufgegeben. Ich bin früh losgefahren, um yfood zu kaufen und im Spiellokal eine Stunde den Bericht zu lesen, und der Verkehr hat mir die ganze Stunde gefressen, also bin ich ungefähr zehn Minuten zu spät in den Saal gekommen, mit zwanzig Minuten Luft, bevor mir die Uhr die Partie genommen hätte. Er hat auf mich gewartet. Wirklich netter Kerl. Das Prep war also ein Überfliegen am Vormittag. Hängen geblieben sind ein bisserl vom Schottisch und ein paar Pläne gegen Sizilianisch, und a4, bevor der Läufer rauskommt. Er hat auf 1.e4 mit 1...c5 geantwortet, ich hab im zweiten Zug den f-Bauern auf f4 und im sechsten den a-Bauern auf a4 gestellt, und die Struktur am Brett ist die aus dem Dokument gewesen, obwohl fast keiner der Züge daraus war. Im 6. Zug hab ich runtergeschaut und gesehen, dass mein Damenspringer und mein Damenläufer seit vor dem ersten Zug auf den Feldern des jeweils anderen gestanden sind. Ich hab sie zurückgestellt und wir haben weitergespielt. Die Schachregeln haben darauf eine andere Antwort, und die hab ich erst nachher gelesen. Die Engine sieht mich von Zug neun bis Zug achtzehn schlechter, und das liegt nicht an einem Zug. Ich hab seinen Bauern auf d4 nie genommen, solange er hängt, ich hab im 12. Zug mit dem Turm statt mit dem Läufer zurückgenommen, und im 13. Zug hab ich einen Bauern hergegeben, um seine Dame nach a5 zu treiben und meinen Turm nach h3 zu bringen. Er hat das Gambit sauber verteidigt und den Bauern sechs Züge lang behalten. Dann hat er 18...Sb4 und 21...Tab8 gespielt, die Partie ist in vier Zügen zweimal gekippt, und danach hab ich mir den Bauern auf b7 zurückgeholt, f4-f5 in seinen König geschoben und auf h6 einen Läufer hergegeben. Mein ärgster Moment ist Zug 20 und am Brett sieht man ihn nicht. Da wäre 20.Ld2 gewesen, den hab ich am Brett gefunden und wegen 20...Db6 verworfen. Nach 20...Db6 gibt es 21.Tb1, das ist der einzige Zug, und die Engine sieht Weiß damit mehr als einen Bauern besser als mit dem Zug, den ich gespielt hab. Ich hab die ganze Kombination gerechnet und einen Zug vor der Antwort aufgehört. Drei Punkte aus sechs Runden, Rang 33, und eine Turnierleistung von 1909 gegen meine eigenen 1798.

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

#WhiteBlack
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a4, with the Bb5 idea out of the report. I do not know if it is right in this position and I played it anyway.
My clock read 1:30 and his read 1:25. This is where I looked down and found my queenside knight and my queenside bishop on each other's squares.
Engine · Best6…7.8.9.10.
-0.9
7.
An interesting position. Both knights get really beautiful outposts, and if he just does nothing I simply have less space, but I still like White here, because it is a nice position against a newer player who will eventually self destruct.
8.
Engine · Interesting8.9.10.11.
+1.0
9.
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1:28 against 1:17. I do not know if c3 was accurate. I thought it would introduce some interesting tension.
11.
Engine · Interesting11.12.13.14.
0.0
I think Bxf3 is inaccurate. He should probably have gone for the b5 plan or for ...f6, but he took because he thought he could win a pawn this way.
12.
He wanted the pawn. I thought I could gambit it to exile his queen and point my pieces at his king, and that is what happened.
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17.
Maybe he should have butchered down the queenside and pushed the pawn instead of trying to defend his king. There surely has to be a way to keep the pawn and convert it.
18.
Nb4 is just bad, because now I win the pawn back and start a devastating attack on the king. He should probably not have moved the knight at all, because b7 always hangs.
Engine · Best18…19.20.21.22.
-0.7
19.
20.
My line20.21.22.23.
+1.6

The move I found at the board and did not play. 20...Qb6 is exactly the reply I was afraid of and it is the engine's first, but 21.Rb1 answers it: the rook steps off the knight's fork with tempo on the queen, and Bxa8 wins the exchange anyway. 21.Rb1 is the only move here. Every other 21st move drops White from about +1.5 to worse than −2.3.

My line20.21.22.23.
+4.6

The tactic I actually calculated, and it works. If he takes the rook, Qh5 threatens mate on h7 while the bishop on d2 is still attacking the queen on a5, so he cannot answer both. He gets a rook, I get the queen.

31 minutes against 37. Here I thought about a crazy move, Bd2: if he takes the rook I go Qh5 and win his queen. I discarded it because of 20...Qb6, where he just moves the queen and I have nothing. Maybe it works anyway.
21.
The rook was saving itself into an attacking square. I think Rab8 is inaccurate and he should just give me the exchange, because the attack after this is pretty forced.
Engine · Best21…22.23.24.25.
+0.4
22.
I sacrifice a bishop for a crazy attack and he cannot take it. I calculated the refutation at the board and the refutation is forced. Bf8 does not hold either.
Engine · Best22…23.24.25.26.
+4.3
23.
Another move where the bishop is hanging, and this time I still think his best try is not to take it. I calculated something else and I do not remember it.
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25.
The second bishop, to open his king up and murder it. Maybe g6 was his better try. He is hopelessly dead either way.
26.
Kg7 was maybe his better try.
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Engine · Interesting27.28.29.30.
M1
Probably his best try, giving the rook back to prolong the mate.
28.
Here I thought about Qxf7 and about Rxf7. Rxf7 is better in my opinion, because it pretty much forces ...Qe1+ if he wants to play on, and that lets me trade down into a completely winning endgame.
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30.
Whatever he does I can always simplify down to something like 30...Nxe5 31.Rxh6+ Bxh6 32.Qxh6+ Kg8 33.Qg5+ Kf7 34.Qxd8, and I am just winning if I grab his remaining centre pawn. I could even give the queen for the knight and it is still winning.

Every board of round 6 Alle Bretter der Runde 6

32 boards 32 Bretter

Bd Br. White Weiß Result Erg. Black Schwarz
1 Narr, Kevin 4 1 – 0 Donets, Alina 4.5
2 Hamzic, Vahidin 4 1 – 0 Schindele, Andreas 4
3 CM Hinteregger, Arthur 4 ½ – ½ Privitera, Franco 3.5
4 Monschein, Wolfgang Dr. 3.5 0 – 1 Zesewitz, Maik 3.5
5 Halilovic, Husejin 3.5 ½ – ½ Roubik, Vit 3.5
6 Rukwid, Marc 3.5 1 – 0 Dannehr, Jürgen 3.5
7 Ertl, Taliesin 3.5 ½ – ½ Wagner, Samuel 3.5
8 Zaynard, Andreas 3.5 0 – 1 Putz, Lukas 3.5
9 Szobries, Harald 3.5 0 – 1 Fellmayr, Simon 3
10 Blum, Gernot 3 1 – 0 Schmied, Hagen Matthias 3
11 Broncel, Kevin 3 1 – 0 Calvi, Stefan 3
12 Broneder Sen, Kurt 3 0 – 1 Hasanovic, Nurija 3
13 Krüger, Alexander 2.5 ½ – ½ Neumann, Ramona 2.5
14 Chan, Chi Ngo 2.5 1 – 0 Prüll, Lukas 2.5
15 Koller, Doris 2.5 0 – 1 Eichstädt, Enrico 2.5
16 Perfler, Daniel 2.5 0 – 1 Magos, Christos 2.5
17 Ljubic, Zvonimir 2.5 1 – 0 Petersohn, Sadko 2.5
18 Gall, Konrad 2.5 0 – 1 Szakolczai, Adam 2.5
19 Teubner, Elias 2 1 – 0 Brandstetter, Markus 2
20 Kuttnig, Roland 2 1 – 0 Pichler, Clemens 2
21 Löffelholz, Christian 2 ½ – ½ Böhme, Sebastian 2
22 Bechtle, Moritz 2 0 – 1 Zesewitz, Marco 2
23 Mohammad, Baran 2 0 – 1 Kranewitter, Alexander 1.5
24 Oita-Dragota, Alexandru-Teodor 1.5 1 – 0 Haider, Jonas 1.5
25 Broneder, Kurt 1.5 1 – 0 Viehhauser, Simon 1.5
26 Juranovic, Igor 1.5 ½ – ½ Scharler, Walter 1.5
27 Bräuer, Mario 1.5 0 – 1 Schinwald, Florian 1.5
28 Löw, Bernd 1 1 – 0 Dragovic, Nikola 1
29 Vinaykumar, Kupur Nagaraju 1 ½ – ½ Hemanth Gowda, Parinitha 1
30 Bieniok, Alfred 0.5 ½ – ½ Gauß, Andreas 1
31 Ljubic, Marin 0 Bye (0) Spielfrei (0) no opponent this round kein Gegner in dieser Runde
32 Rella, Mario 2.5 Bye (½) Spielfrei (½) 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 6 Die Tabelle nach Runde 6

All 62 players. Elias is 33th with 3 points; his row is the highlighted one. Alle 62 Spieler. Elias ist 33. mit 3 Punkten; seine Zeile ist hervorgehoben.

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

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