Schwarzacher Open 2026
39. Salzburger Sonnenterrasse Schach-Open 2026 — B-Turnier
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Nine rounds over eight days: one long game per day, and two on one of them. A win is 1 point, a draw is ½, a loss is 0. Swiss system means you're always paired against someone on the same score as you, so the leaders meet the leaders. “Board 14” is just which table he's sitting at: the lower the number, the higher he's placed that round. Each player gets about two hours of thinking time, so a game can run five hours.
Exact time control: 90min/40 moves + 30min + 30s/move. Format: 9 rounds Swiss · Classical.
Round 4 is played: a win with White against Igor Juranovic (1693), and chess-results now has him 32nd on two points, exactly where he was seeded. Round 5 is paired. He plays board 15 with Black against Stefan Calvi (2015) on Wednesday at 18:00, and the result appears here when the game finishes.
What does “Score” mean?
Score
A win is 1 point, a draw is ½, a loss is 0.
What does “Performance” mean?
Performance
Performance rating: how strong you'd have to be, on average, to score this result. Elias is rated 1798, so this number above 1798 means he is playing above his own level.
What does “Rating” mean?
Rating
How many rating points this tournament has added to his official FIDE rating so far.
Updated 4 Aug, 23:30
Board
15
The table he is sitting at. Lower number, higher up the field.
Tournament diary
One card per playing day. Open one and you get the long version.
The numbers
Everything the results can be measured with, in plain words.
the strength these results are worth — his own rating is 1798
against opponents this strong his rating predicted 1.8 points; he has 2
average rating of the players he has faced — 54 points above his own 1798
games with the white pieces and with the black pieces — White moves first, which is a small advantage
average accuracy loss per move — lower is better
Rating change, game by game
Beating someone stronger is worth more points than beating someone weaker, and losing to someone weaker costs more.
- 1Blum, Gernot (2064) Loss−3.6
- 2Viehhauser, Simon (1722) Win+7.8
- 3Zesewitz, Maik (1930) Loss−6.4
- 4Juranovic, Igor (1693) Win+7.0
The total comes from chess-results. The per-game numbers are this site's own estimate, so they can end up a tenth or two apart.
Accuracy loss per game
How much a chess engine thinks each of his moves gave away, averaged over the game. Lower is better. It is measured in hundredths of a pawn, so 50 means half a pawn per move.
- 1Blum, Gernot40 moves58
- 2Viehhauser, Simon37 moves47
- 3Zesewitz, Maik35 moves49
- 4Juranovic, Igor27 moves32
Measured with Stockfish 18.
Standings
| Rk | Player | Fed | Rtg | Pts | Buchholz | Buchholz (cut) | S-B |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Donets, Alina | AUT | 1914 | 4 | 3.5 | 8 | 8 |
| 2 | Hamzic, Vahidin | BIH | 2018 | 3.5 | 5 | 9 | 7.8 |
| 3 | Schindele, Andreas | GER | 1989 | 3.5 | 4.5 | 9 | 7.5 |
| 4 | CM Hinteregger, Arthur | AUT | 1958 | 3.5 | 4 | 7 | 5.5 |
| 5 | Halilovic, Husejin | BIH | 1981 | 3 | 5 | 11.5 | 7.5 |
| 6 | Zaynard, Andreas | AUT | 1930 | 3 | 5 | 10 | 6.8 |
| 7 | Roubik, Vit | CZE | 1741 | 3 | 5 | 9 | 6.5 |
| 8 | Narr, Kevin | GER | 2059 | 3 | 5 | 9 | 6.3 |
| 9 | Hasanovic, Nurija | BIH | 1924 | 3 | 4.5 | 9.5 | 7.5 |
| 10 | Wagner, Samuel | AUT | 1895 | 3 | 4.5 | 9 | 6.3 |
| 32 | Teubner, Elias | AUT | 1798 | 2 | 3.5 | 7 | 2.5 |
The table above is the top ten plus his row.
Round by round
- 1LossBlum, Gernot2064#10/1
- 2WinViehhauser, Simon1722#211/2
- 3LossZesewitz, Maik1930#141/3
- 4WinJuranovic, Igor1693#252/4
- 5In progressCalvi, Stefan2015#15 —
Games
vs Blum, Gernot (2064)
1–0 · LossChess scores are always written White first. Elias had Black here.
Board one, Black, against the highest rating in the field. Gernot Blum, 2064. Eighteen moves in, it was still a real game and I was fine. Then I thought for about a minute, played 19...Qf7 and hung my queen the second I let go of her. The engine had it level before that move and three pawns down after it. That is where you resign. I didn't. I tried to bail out by taking as many pieces as I could for her and making the squares around his king weak, so at least I had something dynamic to play for: a rook, then a bishop, then another rook. The equaliser was genuinely there. I had calculated 24...Bxd1, which the engine calls a playable +0.6, and I played 24...Rxd3 instead because I wanted the light-squared bishop for tricks and his king boxed in on the light squares. A move later I just missed the fork. 26.Qg8+ hits my king and the rook on a2 at the same time and there goes the second rook. 25...Bd5 was probably the move. After that the only idea I had left was walking my own king across to the queenside to help mate him, because he could barely move a piece and my king was incredibly safe over there. I analysed it at the board and I don't remember the moves any more. 31.h4 shut that down and that was the beginning of the end. I'm not even mad that I lost. I liked the game and I had a lot of fun dynamically balancing out the queen blunder and the missed equalisation I calculated but didn't play. Blum needed 41 moves to catch my king.
Games
The annotated games are locked while the tournament runs. They open to everyone after the final round. If Elias gave you the code, you can open them now.
Six digits.
vs Viehhauser, Simon (1722)
1–0 · WinChess scores are always written White first. Elias had White here.
White, round two, straight after the round-one disaster. In general I felt like I was better at all times in this game. The engine says no. A Maroczy bind, my bishop parked on b6, his queenside frozen. That part was true, and it stayed true for about ten moves. Then on move 16 I won the exchange in the wrong order and gave two and a half pawns straight back without noticing anything at the board, and on move 20 I gave the b6 bishop away because I was certain nobody could stop my connected passed pawns. They could. From there the engine has me losing for fifteen straight moves. I spent those fifteen moves pushing the c-pawn up to c7, and then I got up and grabbed a second queen off the next board for psychological warfare, so it stood next to the pawn where he had to look at it. He cracked on move 34, and that pawn was stoppable the whole time. Then I was winning for exactly three moves. 37.Qxa6 threw it away one final time, and he shook hands one move before 37...Bd3 beats me. My judgement was wrong for most of this game and I still walked away with the full point. Positions like this are very hard to defend.
Games
The annotated games are locked while the tournament runs. They open to everyone after the final round. If Elias gave you the code, you can open them now.
Six digits.
vs Zesewitz, Maik (1930)
1–0 · LossChess scores are always written White first. Elias had Black here.
Board fourteen, Black, against Maik Zesewitz, 1930. I got mated on move 36. The prep went almost exactly as expected: he opened 1.f4, I got the d5 and g6 setup I had studied, and for eight moves the game sat in a position I had already looked at. On move 10 I messed up the move order. I wanted to take on d4 first and I took the knight on e5 instead, so he got to recapture with the d-pawn, and I honestly also just underestimated his attack on my king. Three moves later I sacrificed a knight for activity. I thought I would get an insane bishop that also picks up some pawns, because his structure is weak and exploitable. I took two of them pretty forcefully with the queen and I thought I was better, but engine says no. Then the queen went shopping on b2 and c2 and she never came home. He put a bishop on e2, she ran to f5, and a rook and a bishop hunted her down there. I keep missing these tactics again and again, which is frustrating, and I feel rusty. He mated me. I always play until mate, that is just how I play. He was the nicest opponent of the tournament. I bought him a beer, we analysed the whole game together, and he told me he had prepared me off my 1.a4 game from last year, the joke one. He said my prep was impressive. The whole family was lovely.
Games
The annotated games are locked while the tournament runs. They open to everyone after the final round. If Elias gave you the code, you can open them now.
Six digits.
vs Juranovic, Igor (1693)
1–0 · WinChess scores are always written White first. Elias had White here.
Board twenty-five, White, against Igor Juranovic (1693). He resigned after my 27th move. He came in on the same score as me, with two draws against higher rated players this week. The prep was a system I had never played before, 1.d4 and 2.Nc3 and 3.Bf4, with one rule sitting at the top of it: if his pawn goes to d5, you build first and you leave e4 alone. His pawn went to d5 on move one. So on move four I left e4 alone even though it was probably the more precise move, and I got the slow game the report said I would get. Then I played f3 far too early. The engine says that one move cost a full pawn, his knight came to h5, my bishop got traded off and my h-pawn ended up on g3. That trade handed me an open h-file I had not planned on, and by move 15 the engine had me a pawn and a half up with the queen on h6. Then I pushed the g-pawn one move too soon and gave all of it back. On move 17 I took his knight on h5 with the rook, which is an exchange for nothing, and the engine puts me a pawn and a half worse after it. I did that on purpose. His defence had to be exact and mine did not, I had threats on both sides of his king, and I thought that was the way to play this particular game. One move later he proved me right. The engine gives him exactly one move out of 35 that holds his advantage there, he played a different one, and the pawn he let me push to f6 is the pawn every mating line at the end is built on. He had the same one-move choice three more times and found it once. On move 24 his queen went shopping on c2 and left the seventh rank, which was the only thing guarding g7. Two knight checks later he resigned into mate in two. Two out of four, and 32nd, which is exactly where I was seeded.
Games
The annotated games are locked while the tournament runs. They open to everyone after the final round. If Elias gave you the code, you can open them now.
Six digits.
Chess pieces by cburnett, licensed CC BY-SA 3.0. Standings and pairings via chess-results.com.