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Day 6 of 8 · Friday, 7 August 2026 · Round 7 Tag 6 von 8 · Freitag, 7. August 2026 · Runde 7

I played a move I knew was bad, on purpose Ich hab absichtlich einen Zug gespielt, von dem ich weiß, dass er schlecht ist

4 / 7
On the day An diesem Tag

points out of the game played Punkte aus der Partie

24 / 62
Rank that evening Platz an dem Abend

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

1931
Performance Turnierleistung

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

+24.4
Rating Elo

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

Schwarzacher Open 2026Tournament diary

Day 67 Aug 2026

I played a move I knew was bad, on purpose

Today's games

  • R7Schmied1717Win

Score

4/ 7+1

today · 1 game

Rank

24+8

vs seed 32

Performance

1931+133

vs rating 1798

Rating change

+24.4

since the start

Schwarzacher Open 2026Turniertagebuch

Tag 67. Aug. 2026

Ich hab absichtlich einen Zug gespielt, von dem ich weiß, dass er schlecht ist

Partien heute

  • R7Schmied1717Sieg

Punkte

4/ 7+1

heute · 1 Partie

Rang

24+8

vs Startrang 32

Turnierleistung

1931+133

vs Elo 1798

Elo-Änderung

+24,4

seit Turnierstart

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The long version Die lange Fassung

Game seven, Black against Hagen Matthias Schmied (1717) on board 16. He resigned after my twenty-seventh move, and it is the first game this week where I was the higher-rated player at the board.

He blitzed his opening moves out and was about fifteen minutes up on the clock without thinking once, so on move six I played d5. The move is probably not correct and that was the point: he knew it was bad and he did not know the refutation, so from there he had to think and I already knew the structure. The engine says the punishment was 7.Bxc6 bxc6 8.e5, which shoves my knight back to the square it started on and locks the whole thing up. He played something else and my pieces came out.

On move ten I gave a knight on b4. It is a pattern I know from the Benoni, except the piece that lands on f6 is a bishop instead of the queen, and that difference is the hole in it: a bishop on f6 can be met with Bg5 and a queen cannot. Bg5 was the move on move 12 and again on move 14, and it never came. After that I had the exchange and he had two weak pawns.

The move I am happiest about is one I did not play. On move 15 I found a knight jump to d4 that attacks his queen and his knight at the same time, worked out myself that he just takes with the other knight and I am simply down material, and played a pawn move instead. The engine has four and a half pawns between those two moves. In round five I did the opposite kind of thing and it cost me a rook.

He offered a draw on move 24, in a position the engine has at minus two and three quarters. I had the rest calculated to the end by then, so I played it out fast: rook to a3, rook to d3, and on move 27 both rooks landed on his bishop. Every way of taking back loses more material on his back rank. Four points from seven, 24th, and a tournament performance of 1931 against my own 1798.

Schwarzacher Open 2026Tournament diary

Move of the day7 Aug 2026

EIGHT ANSWERS.ALL OF THEMLOSE.

Move 21, and the knight goes to d4 in the middle of everything. I could not find him a move that holds, so I played it and let him look.

Engine at depth 21: eight legal replies, best one minus 2.17, and the four queen moves all drop a piece to Nxe2 with check.

Round 7Move 21Nd4

Schwarzacher Open 2026Turniertagebuch

Zug des Tages7. Aug. 2026

ACHT ANTWORTEN.ALLE ACHTVERLIEREN.

Zug 21, und der Springer geht mitten hinein nach d4. Ich hab keinen Zug für ihn gefunden, der hält, also hab ich ihn gespielt und ihn schauen lassen.

Engine auf Tiefe 21: acht legale Antworten, die beste minus 2,17, und die vier Damenzüge verlieren alle an Sxe2 mit Schach eine Figur.

Runde 7Zug 21Nd4

Eight answers, and all eight of them lose Acht Antworten, und alle acht verlieren

Round seven, move 21. The knight jumps into d4 where his bishop, his knight and his queen are all looking at it, and there is no reply that holds the position together.

I checked this one afterwards because at the board it just looks like it drops a pawn, and he thought so too. The engine has eight legal answers at depth 21. The best is taking with the knight at minus 2.17, which keeps the material where it is and leaves him an exchange down in a position with nothing in it. Every one of the four queen moves loses a piece, because Nxe2 comes with check before he gets to do anything. Taking with the bishop is minus 2.50 and the passed pawn does the job instead.

One thing the engine wants on record: pushing the e-pawn first was better, minus 2.75, because it displaces the knight on f3 before the horse arrives. My move is its third. Right idea, second-best order, and it still left him eight losing choices.

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 7 Runde 7 · 18:00 · #16

vs gegen Schmied, Hagen Matthias (1717)

0 – 1 · Win Sieg

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

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. Brett sechzehn, Schwarz, gegen Hagen Matthias Schmied (1717) aus Trofaiach. Nach meinem siebenundzwanzigsten Zug hat er aufgegeben. Der zweite Sieg in Folge, und die erste Partie diese Woche, in der ich am Brett der nominell Stärkere war. Seine Eröffnungszüge sind schnell gekommen, also hab ich im sechsten Zug d5 gespielt. Der Zug ist wahrscheinlich nicht korrekt und ich hab ihn mit Absicht gespielt: er holt die Partie aus den bekannten Varianten in eine Struktur, die ich oft gespielt hab, und ab dort haben wir beide denken müssen. Im zehnten Zug hab ich einen Springer auf b4 hergegeben. Das ist ein Muster, das ich aus dem Benoni kenne, nur landet statt der Dame der Läufer auf f6: die lange Diagonale geht auf und der Turm im Eck ist nicht zu halten. Zwei Züge später hat der Läufer ihn genommen. Die Engine ist ehrlich zu dem Opfer: 12.Lg5 widerlegt es, weil der Läufer auf f6 mit Tempo gegen meine Dame angegangen werden kann, bevor er auf a1 kassiert. Der Zug ist nie gekommen, und danach hab ich die Qualität gehabt und Ziele dazu. Ab Zug fünfzehn hab ich gemacht, was mir Runde fünf beigebracht hat: keine Komplikationen, alles abtauschen, den Druck halten. 15...Sd4 hab ich am Brett gerechnet, die Widerlegung selber gefunden und die Idee weggelegt, genau die Disziplin, die gegen Calvi gefehlt hat. Im 24. Zug hat er remis geboten. Da hatte ich schon jede Variante zu Ende gerechnet und hab den Rest runtergespielt: Ta3, Td3, und im 27. Zug sind beide Türme auf seinem Läufer gelandet. Jedes Zurückschlagen verliert an der Grundreihe noch mehr Material, also hat er aufgegeben. Wir haben danach noch eine Weile gemeinsam analysiert, das ist das Beste an diesen Open. 4 aus 7, Rang 24, Turnierleistung 1931 gegen meine eigenen 1798.

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

#WhiteBlack
1.
2.
3.
The Moscow check. His first moves came quickly, and in the post-game analysis I showed him what I had prepped against 3.d4. He said he would not want that position as White, which is fair, and exactly why he does not play into it.
4.
5.
6.
My move is most probably not correct and I wanted it anyway. It steers toward a structure I know, and from here neither of us was in a book line. He was about fifteen minutes ahead on the clock at this point. The engine's refutation is not the game's 7.exd5: it is 7.Bxc6 bxc6 8.e5, sending my knight back to g8 and clamping the wrecked pawns at +1.45.
7.
Engine · Interesting7.8.9.10.
+1.5
8.
e6 is likely wrong too, the engine wanted 8...cxd4. I thought the pawn on c5 was not going to run anywhere, like in most Benoni structures, so I let it go. My plan was simple: Be7, castle, then push on the queenside.
Engine · Best8…9.10.11.12.
+1.0
9.
10.
The engine's move is 10.a3, keeping the b4 square covered, and 10.c4 was the move I was afraid of at the board: the knight gets pushed around and White keeps close to +1.5 either way. After 10.b4 the quiet 10...a5 already brings it down to +0.5. The numbers call b4 the first real concession of the game.
My line10.11.
+1.0

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 sacrifice. A pattern I know from the Benoni, with the bishop on f6 doing the queen's job: the long diagonal opens and a1 cannot be defended. The engine's honest number is +1.8 for White, and the reason is the difference between the two versions of the pattern: a bishop on f6 can be asked 12.Bg5, a queen on f6 cannot. Objectively 10...a5 was stronger. Practically this is the position I had played the whole opening for.
Engine · Best10…11.12.13.14.
+0.6
11.
12.
The engine's refutation of my whole idea is 12.Bg5 at +2.1: it meets the f6 bishop with tempo on my queen, and after 12...Bxg5 13.Nxg5 Qxg5 14.Nc3 the rook on a1 is still standing and White is simply up material. After the game move the position is level again: 12...Bxa1 runs at -0.15.
My line12.13.14.15.16.
-M1

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.

Engine · Best12.13.14.15.
+1.9
13.
I calculated a lot here and chose a5 because it forces a response on the queenside, and castling just felt too early. The engine disagrees with the feeling: 13...O-O at once is -0.11 and a5 is fourth at +1.10, because the tempo hands White the Bg5 plan with the rook pickup back on. Castling was not too early. It was the move.
Engine · Best13…14.15.16.17.
+0.3
14.
Engine · Best14.15.16.17.
+1.1
15.
Here I calculated the crazy 15...Nd4: it attacks queen and knight, and if he takes my queen I take his. Then I found the refutation myself, 16.Nxd4 just leaves me down material, so I interposed with f6. The engine prices the discipline: f6 is -1.60, Nd4 is +2.83. Throwing the idea away was worth more than four pawns.
My line15…16.
+2.4

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.

16.
17.
Against Calvi I kept the game complex and it cost me a rook. Here I did the opposite. Bxc3 forces the queen off my diagonal, e5 comes next to fix the dark squares, and the a-file is mine. Simplify while up material: that was the whole plan, and I had it written in my head before move 17.
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20.
It felt good and it is not what the position wanted most. The engine has 20...Ne7 first, rerouting to f5 against the bishop on e3; Bg4 is outside its top five and cost 0.39. But the move asks a question, and only 21.Nd2 answers it cleanly. The game's 21.Be2 is fifth on the engine's list, and from there I stand at -2.75 with 21...e4 on the board.
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Engine · Best21.22.23.24.
-1.3
Engine · Interesting21.22.23.24.
-1.5
This blows everything up, and my only regret is the order: the engine plays 21...e4 first at -2.75, and Nd4 straight away is -1.87 after best defence. But the claim I made at the board holds: after Nd4 every white reply is losing. Best is 22.Nxd4 at -2.17, there is no second capture, Bxg4 is not even legal, and every queen move runs into Nxe2+ first.
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23.
The move-order think of the game. I wanted Bxe2 first and feared that after the trades White consolidates to a draw, so I kept the tension with Re8, also because 24.Rxe8 is not even possible with the bishop on e2 in the way. The engine says my fear was wrong: Bxe2 first is -2.56, and the ending after Rxe8+ Qxe8 is -2.6, because b4 and c5 fall and the back rank never goes away. Re8 gave back 1.4 of it. Right instinct about keeping pieces on, wrong price tag on the ending.
My line23…24.25.26.
-7.2

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.

24.
The draw offer came here. The engine's last real defence was 24.f3 at -1.13, luft and a tempo against the g4 bishop in one move, and it is the try I had worried about myself. After 24.Be3 it is -2.35, and my next moves were already written in my head.
Engine · Best24.25.26.27.
-1.0
25.
I called Ra3 my only try and everything else roughly equality. The engine agrees about everything else, and then goes one better: 25...Qd3 forces the queens off into a rook ending at -2.56 that wins itself, with the same back-rank trick doing the work: Qxd3 Ra1+ and the rook arrives on f1 with mate threats. Ra3 is second at -1.96. Right idea, second-best door.
Engine · Interesting25…26.27.28.29.
-2.6
26.
Best move on the board at -2.56. After 26.Qe1 exactly one defence was left, 27.Qf1, holding the material at the cost of the position. Everything else loses on the spot, and 27.h3 is five pawns down after Rd1: the luft that would have solved this game was needed many moves earlier.
27.
My line27.28.29.
M1

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.

Engine · Best27.28.29.30.
-2.8
Both rooks onto the bishop, and every recapture fails to the back rank: 28.Qxe3 Rxd2 wins the queen next, 28.fxe3 Rxd2 the same, and 28.Rxd3 Rxe1+ 29.Rd1 Rxd1 is mate. He resigned. The one trick left, 27.Bd2 instead of Rd2, is in the sidelines: if I grab the bishop, it is my king on h8 that gets mated, by Rxe8. I had it calculated, because you check the last tries before the game ends.

Every board of round 7 Alle Bretter der Runde 7

32 boards 32 Bretter

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

All 62 players. Elias is 24th with 4 points; his row is the highlighted one. Alle 62 Spieler. Elias ist 24. mit 4 Punkten; seine Zeile ist hervorgehoben.

Rk Pl. Player Spieler Pts Pkt
1 Donets, Alina 5.5
2 Narr, Kevin 5.5
3 Hamzic, Vahidin 5.5
4 Halilovic, Husejin 5
5 Schindele, Andreas 5
6 Zesewitz, Maik 5
7 CM Hinteregger, Arthur 5
8 Blum, Gernot 5
9 Ertl, Taliesin 5
10 Fellmayr, Simon 5
11 Rukwid, Marc 4.5
12 Wagner, Samuel 4.5
13 Zaynard, Andreas 4.5
14 Putz, Lukas 4.5
15 Dannehr, Jürgen 4.5
16 Eichstädt, Enrico 4.5
17 Roubik, Vit 4
18 Privitera, Franco 4
19 Broncel, Kevin 4
20 Hasanovic, Nurija 4
21 Monschein, Wolfgang Dr. 4
22 Szobries, Harald 4
23 Kuttnig, Roland 4
24 Teubner, Elias 4
25 Szakolczai, Adam 4
26 Magos, Christos 3.5
27 Perfler, Daniel 3.5
28 Calvi, Stefan 3.5
29 Böhme, Sebastian 3.5
30 Zesewitz, Marco 3.5
31 Chan, Chi Ngo 3.5
32 Neumann, Ramona 3.5
33 Krüger, Alexander 3.5
34 Rella, Mario 3.5
35 Broneder, Kurt 3.5
36 Ljubic, Zvonimir 3.5
37 Kranewitter, Alexander 3.5
38 Broneder Sen, Kurt 3.5
39 Schmied, Hagen Matthias 3
40 Brandstetter, Markus 3
41 Pichler, Clemens 3
42 Petersohn, Sadko 3
43 Löffelholz, Christian 3
44 Scharler, Walter 3
45 Bechtle, Moritz 3
46 Koller, Doris 2.5
47 Oita-Dragota, Alexandru-Teodor 2.5
48 Prüll, Lukas 2.5
49 Bräuer, Mario 2.5
50 Gall, Konrad 2.5
51 Schinwald, Florian 2.5
52 Haider, Jonas 2.5
53 Juranovic, Igor 2
54 Mohammad, Baran 2
55 Viehhauser, Simon 2
56 Dragovic, Nikola 2
57 Löw, Bernd 2
58 Gauß, Andreas 1.5
59 Vinaykumar, Kupur Nagaraju 1.5
60 Hemanth Gowda, Parinitha 1.5
61 Bieniok, Alfred 1
62 Ljubic, Marin 0

Jump to his row (rank 24) ↓ Zu seiner Zeile springen (Platz 24) ↓