Tkachiev, V. – Lysyj, I.

2637 2013 · Draw

Vienna Game, 2013: Tkachiev (2637) against Lysyj (2666). After 3.g3 and 4.exd5 the position simplifies fast — the e-file opens, rooks and then queens come off, and the game slides into a rook-and-bishop endgame where each side owns a passed pawn, White’s d-pawn and Black’s b-pawn. The engine flags no turning point: neither player ever swings the evaluation. Black played 89% at least good moves, White 79%, with a handful of inaccuracies that cost nothing. Draw agreed on 29.Rd3. The takeaway: in endings like this, equality isn’t held by one brilliant move but by the absence of a mistake — the early queen trade killed nothing, it simply moved the game onto ground where accuracy matters more than imagination.