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Day 12 Aug 2026

I gave the best player in the room my queen

Today's games

  • R1Blum2064Loss
  • R2Viehhauser1722Win

Score

1/ 2+1

today · 2 games

Rank

34-2

vs seed 32

Performance

1893+95

vs rating 1798

Rating change

+4.4

since the start

Schwarzacher Open 2026Turniertagebuch

Tag 12. Aug. 2026

Ich habe dem Besten im Saal meine Dame geschenkt

Partien heute

  • R1Blum2064Niederlage
  • R2Viehhauser1722Sieg

Punkte

1/ 2+1

heute · 2 Partien

Rang

34-2

vs Startrang 32

Turnierleistung

1893+95

vs Elo 1798

Elo-Änderung

+4,4

seit Turnierstart

I gave the best player in the room my queen Ich habe dem Besten im Saal meine Dame geschenkt

Two games on day one. The first put me on board one, Black against Gernot Blum, who is rated 2064, the highest number in the field. Eighteen moves in, it was still a real game and I was fine. Then I thought for about a minute, played 19...Qf7 and handed him my queen the second I let go of her.

Resigning was the sensible move. I did not resign. I took a rook for her, then a bishop, then another rook, and spent the next twenty moves trying to strangle his king on the light squares. The equaliser was genuinely there: I calculated 24...Bxd1, which the engine calls a playable +0.6, and played 24...Rxd3 instead because I wanted the bishop for tricks. A move later I just missed the fork and 25...h5 cost me the second rook. After that the only idea I had left was walking my own king across to the queenside, because he could barely move a piece and my king was incredibly safe over there. 31.h4 ended that. Blum needed 41 moves to catch me and I enjoyed every one of them.

Game two, White against Simon Viehhauser (1722). I had a bind, his queenside was frozen, and in general I felt like I was better at all times in that game. The engine says no: I was losing for fifteen straight moves. On move 20 I gave up a bishop for two connected passed pawns because I was certain nobody could stop them, and the engine had the position dead level before that and about two and a half pawns worse after it.

Then I marched one of the pawns to c7, stood up, walked to the next board and borrowed their spare queen for psychological warfare. He cracked on move 34. It worked, and it should not have.

37.Qxa6 loses, by the way. 37...Bd3! wins for Black, and he resigned one move before the move that would have beaten me. One point out of two, and I would play both of these again tomorrow.