Nepomniachtchi, I. – Giri, A.

2732 2017 · White wins (resignation, time or agreement)

Nepomniachtchi (2732) against Giri (2771), 2017, a Najdorf in which White puts the bishop on d3 early and pushes f4-f5. The engine flags no turning point at all: neither side hands the game over in a single move. The accuracy figures back that up, 91 % for White and 89 % for Black, both players staying on the rails nearly throughout. Still, White keeps piling on: the rooks come over, 46.Rb8, then 49.Rbh8 and 50.R3h7 crowd the black king, and Black resigns, 1-0. The takeaway is plain: high accuracy is no shield against a slow build-up of small advantages when your opponent never slips either.