Firouzja, Alireza – Abdusattorov, Nodirbek

2762 2025 · Draw

Firouzja (2762) and Abdusattorov (2750) played a 2025 Queen’s Gambit Accepted in which White grabbed the b7-pawn early with 9.Qxb7 and handed Black the piece play. There was no turning point: the engine flags no inflection at all, with 91% at-least-good moves for White and 100% for Black. Black pushed d3, took on e4, and steered into Nf3+ and Qg4, and the game ended by repetition — 30...Nh4+ 31.Kh2 Nf3+ 32.Kg2, repeated to the final 36.Kg2, ½-½. White’s single inaccuracy never cost anything measurable. The club-level takeaway: an early pawn grab buys the opponent activity, and error-free defence is enough to hold the balance.