Piket, Jeroen – Cifuentes Parada, Roberto

2615 1992 · Draw

Piket (2615) and Cifuentes Parada (2540) met in 1992 in a Philidor Defense that cleared out fast: after 5.Qxd4 and 6.e5, the queens left the board by move ten and the game turned into a long technical exercise. The engine flags no turning point at all — neither side ever handed over a decisive edge — which matches the accuracy figures: 88% for White, 84% for Black. White leaned on the open file with 33.Rb1 and pushed the b-pawn to b6; Black answered by grabbing material with 39...Bxa4. The rook-and-bishop ending petered out into repetition, ½-½. The takeaway: a game without a real error rarely produces a winner, and a draw like this is the honest outcome of two sound defenses.