De la Riva Aguado, Oscar – Dervishi, Erald

2515 2002 · Draw

Vienna Game, 2002: De la Riva Aguado (2515) against Dervishi (2513), a short, clean fight that ends ½-½ after 17.c5. The engine flags no turning point at all — nothing is thrown away by either side, and both finish at 88% of moves rated good or better. The shape of the game is set early by 4.g3 and the bishop on g2, then the trades on e8 and d4 empty the e-file. Black keeps things simple with Bd6, Bg4-h5 and Rd8. The lesson: in symmetrical lines like this, a draw isn’t a failure but the logical end of two error-free sequences — accuracy shows up as the absence of mistakes, not as fireworks.