vs Brandstetter, Markus (2027)
1 – 0 · WinChess scores are always written White first. Elias had White here.
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.
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Line above the middle = Elias is better. Below = his opponent is better. · Dots mark mistakes.
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.
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.
Every board of round 6
32 boards
| Bd | White | Rtg | Result | Rtg | Black |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Narr, Kevin 4 | 2059 | 1 – 0 | 1914 | Donets, Alina 4.5 |
| 2 | Hamzic, Vahidin 4 | 2018 | 1 – 0 | 1989 | Schindele, Andreas 4 |
| 3 | CM Hinteregger, Arthur 4 | 1958 | ½ – ½ | 1938 | Privitera, Franco 3.5 |
| 4 | Monschein, Wolfgang Dr. 3.5 | 1985 | 0 – 1 | 1930 | Zesewitz, Maik 3.5 |
| 5 | Halilovic, Husejin 3.5 | 1981 | ½ – ½ | 1741 | Roubik, Vit 3.5 |
| 6 | Rukwid, Marc 3.5 | 1954 | 1 – 0 | 1919 | Dannehr, Jürgen 3.5 |
| 7 | Ertl, Taliesin 3.5 | 1942 | ½ – ½ | 1895 | Wagner, Samuel 3.5 |
| 8 | Zaynard, Andreas 3.5 | 1930 | 0 – 1 | 1617 | Putz, Lukas 3.5 |
| 9 | Szobries, Harald 3.5 | 1896 | 0 – 1 | 1943 | Fellmayr, Simon 3 |
| 10 | Blum, Gernot 3 | 2064 | 1 – 0 | 1717 | Schmied, Hagen Matthias 3 |
| 11 | Broncel, Kevin 3 | 1831 | 1 – 0 | 2015 | Calvi, Stefan 3 |
| 12 | Broneder Sen, Kurt 3 | 1755 | 0 – 1 | 1924 | Hasanovic, Nurija 3 |
| 13 | Krüger, Alexander 2.5 | 2008 | ½ – ½ | 1752 | Neumann, Ramona 2.5 |
| 14 | Chan, Chi Ngo 2.5 | 1720 | 1 – 0 | 1933 | Prüll, Lukas 2.5 |
| 15 | Koller, Doris 2.5 | 1701 | 0 – 1 | 1913 | Eichstädt, Enrico 2.5 |
| 16 | Perfler, Daniel 2.5 | 1717 | 0 – 1 | 1858 | Magos, Christos 2.5 |
| 17 | Ljubic, Zvonimir 2.5 | 1831 | 1 – 0 | 1768 | Petersohn, Sadko 2.5 |
| 18 | Gall, Konrad 2.5 | 1779 | 0 – 1 | 1527 | Szakolczai, Adam 2.5 |
| 19 | Teubner, Elias 2 | 1798 | 1 – 0 | 2027 | Brandstetter, Markus 2 |
| 20 | Kuttnig, Roland 2 | 1720 | 1 – 0 | 1845 | Pichler, Clemens 2 |
| 21 | Löffelholz, Christian 2 | 1840 | ½ – ½ | 1795 | Böhme, Sebastian 2 |
| 22 | Bechtle, Moritz 2 | 1672 | 0 – 1 | 1811 | Zesewitz, Marco 2 |
| 23 | Mohammad, Baran 2 | 1617 | 0 – 1 | 1779 | Kranewitter, Alexander 1.5 |
| 24 | Oita-Dragota, Alexandru-Teodor 1.5 | 1736 | 1 – 0 | 1847 | Haider, Jonas 1.5 |
| 25 | Broneder, Kurt 1.5 | 1846 | 1 – 0 | 1722 | Viehhauser, Simon 1.5 |
| 26 | Juranovic, Igor 1.5 | 1693 | ½ – ½ | 1752 | Scharler, Walter 1.5 |
| 27 | Bräuer, Mario 1.5 | 1672 | 0 – 1 | 1744 | Schinwald, Florian 1.5 |
| 28 | Löw, Bernd 1 | 1735 | 1 – 0 | 1724 | Dragovic, Nikola 1 |
| 29 | Vinaykumar, Kupur Nagaraju 1 | 1607 | ½ – ½ | 1606 | Hemanth Gowda, Parinitha 1 |
| 30 | Bieniok, Alfred 0.5 | 1750 | ½ – ½ | 1773 | Gauß, Andreas 1 |
| 31 | Ljubic, Marin 0 | 1729 | Bye (0) | — | no opponent this round |
| 32 | Rella, Mario 2.5 | 1627 | Bye (½) | — | 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.