vs Schmied, Hagen Matthias (1717)
0 – 1 · WinChess scores are always written White first. Elias had Black here.
Board sixteen, Black, against Hagen Matthias Schmied (1717) from Trofaiach. He resigned after my twenty-seventh move. Second win in a row, and the first game this week where I was the higher-rated player at the board. His opening moves came fast, so on move six I played d5. The move is probably not correct and I played it on purpose: it takes the game out of known lines into a structure I have played a lot, and from there we both had to think. On move ten I gave a knight on b4. It is a pattern I know from the Benoni, only with the bishop landing on f6 instead of the queen: the long diagonal opens and the rook in the corner cannot be held. Two moves later the bishop took it. The engine is honest about the sacrifice: 12.Bg5 refutes it, because the f6 bishop can be met with tempo on my queen before it cashes in. That move never came, and after that I had the exchange and targets. From move fifteen I did what round five taught me: no complications, trade everything, keep the pressure. I calculated 15...Nd4 at the board, found the refutation myself and threw the idea away, which is exactly the discipline that was missing against Calvi. He offered a draw on move 24. By then I had calculated every line to the end and blitzed the rest out: Ra3, Rd3, and on move 27 both rooks landed on his bishop. Every recapture loses more material to the back rank, so he resigned. We analysed together afterwards for a while, which is the best part of these open tournaments. 4 from 7, rank 24, performance 1931 against my own 1798.
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Line above the middle = his opponent is better. Below = Elias is better. · Dots mark mistakes.
The move I was afraid of. The knight gets sent back, c5 stays covered, and White keeps the space and the pawn. We looked at it together afterwards: c4 and then Be3 if White wants to hold everything, and Black has a long, unpleasant evening ahead.
The line from the joint post-game analysis: trade everything and fork with Ne5. The board has the answer ready. Bxe5 gives the piece straight back, and after Rxe5 Rd1+ it is mate on the back rank next move. The rook on a1 never gets to help. This back-rank motif runs through the whole rest of the game.
The crazy idea I calculated and discarded: Nd4 hits queen and knight, and if the queen takes mine, I take his. The refutation is the third capture, simply Nxd4, and I am down material with nothing to show. Finding this at the board and not playing the move is the whole lesson of round five.
The order I calculated and rejected out of draw fear. If White avoids the rook trade with Re1, this is the punishment: Rxe1+ Qxe1 Qxd4 wins the bishop, and the queen falls next to the mate threat plus the skewer from a1. The engine has this at -8.8. What I misjudged: even the sober Rxe8+ Qxe8 is -2.6 for White, not a draw.
The swindle we checked afterwards. Instead of 27.Rd2 the bishop drops back to d2 and hangs itself on purpose. Take it greedily and the dream line - Rxd2, Qxd2, Qxd2, expecting Rxd2 Re1 mate - gets cut off one move earlier: the rook does not recapture, it plays Rxe8 and mates ME on the back rank. I had this one calculated, because you check the last tricks before your opponent runs out of them.
Every board of round 7
32 boards
| Bd | White | Rtg | Result | Rtg | Black |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Hamzic, Vahidin 5 | 2018 | ½ – ½ | 2059 | Narr, Kevin 5 |
| 2 | Zesewitz, Maik 4.5 | 1930 | ½ – ½ | 1958 | CM Hinteregger, Arthur 4.5 |
| 3 | Donets, Alina 4.5 | 1914 | 1 – 0 | 1954 | Rukwid, Marc 4.5 |
| 4 | Putz, Lukas 4.5 | 1617 | 0 – 1 | 2064 | Blum, Gernot 4 |
| 5 | Schindele, Andreas 4 | 1989 | 1 – 0 | 1831 | Broncel, Kevin 4 |
| 6 | Privitera, Franco 4 | 1938 | 0 – 1 | 1981 | Halilovic, Husejin 4 |
| 7 | Hasanovic, Nurija 4 | 1924 | 0 – 1 | 1943 | Fellmayr, Simon 4 |
| 8 | Roubik, Vit 4 | 1741 | 0 – 1 | 1942 | Ertl, Taliesin 4 |
| 9 | Wagner, Samuel 4 | 1895 | ½ – ½ | 1985 | Monschein, Wolfgang Dr. 3.5 |
| 10 | Magos, Christos 3.5 | 1858 | 0 – 1 | 1930 | Zaynard, Andreas 3.5 |
| 11 | Dannehr, Jürgen 3.5 | 1919 | 1 – 0 | 1831 | Ljubic, Zvonimir 3.5 |
| 12 | Eichstädt, Enrico 3.5 | 1913 | 1 – 0 | 1720 | Chan, Chi Ngo 3.5 |
| 13 | Szakolczai, Adam 3.5 | 1527 | ½ – ½ | 1896 | Szobries, Harald 3.5 |
| 14 | Calvi, Stefan 3 | 2015 | ½ – ½ | 2008 | Krüger, Alexander 3 |
| 15 | Zesewitz, Marco 3 | 1811 | ½ – ½ | 1627 | Rella, Mario 3 |
| 16 | Schmied, Hagen Matthias 3 | 1717 | 0 – 1 | 1798 | Teubner, Elias 3 |
| 17 | Neumann, Ramona 3 | 1752 | ½ – ½ | 1755 | Broneder Sen, Kurt 3 |
| 18 | Prüll, Lukas 2.5 | 1933 | --+ | 1720 | Kuttnig, Roland 3 |
| 19 | Schinwald, Florian 2.5 | 1744 | 0 – 1 | 1846 | Broneder, Kurt 2.5 |
| 20 | Petersohn, Sadko 2.5 | 1768 | ½ – ½ | 1840 | Löffelholz, Christian 2.5 |
| 21 | Böhme, Sebastian 2.5 | 1795 | 1 – 0 | 1736 | Oita-Dragota, Alexandru-Teodor 2.5 |
| 22 | Perfler, Daniel 2.5 | 1717 | 1 – 0 | 1779 | Gall, Konrad 2.5 |
| 23 | Kranewitter, Alexander 2.5 | 1779 | 1 – 0 | 1701 | Koller, Doris 2.5 |
| 24 | Brandstetter, Markus 2 | 2027 | 1 – 0 | 1735 | Löw, Bernd 2 |
| 25 | Pichler, Clemens 2 | 1845 | 1 – 0 | 1693 | Juranovic, Igor 2 |
| 26 | Scharler, Walter 2 | 1752 | 1 – 0 | 1617 | Mohammad, Baran 2 |
| 27 | Hemanth Gowda, Parinitha 1.5 | 1606 | 0 – 1 | 1672 | Bechtle, Moritz 2 |
| 28 | Gauß, Andreas 1.5 | 1773 | 0 – 1 | 1672 | Bräuer, Mario 1.5 |
| 29 | Haider, Jonas 1.5 | 1847 | 1 – 0 | 1750 | Bieniok, Alfred 1 |
| 30 | Dragovic, Nikola 1 | 1724 | 1 – 0 | 1607 | Vinaykumar, Kupur Nagaraju 1.5 |
| 31 | Ljubic, Marin 0 | 1729 | Bye (0) | — | no opponent this round |
| 32 | Viehhauser, Simon 1.5 | 1722 | 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.