Wojtaszek, R. – Aronian, L.

2750 2017 · Draw

Réti, 2017: Wojtaszek (2750) against Aronian (2780), a Réti that quickly transposes into a Slav-style structure after 4...dxc4. The queens come off early, and the game turns into a long rook-and-minor-piece endgame in which both sides manoeuvre without ever conceding ground. The engine flags no turning point at all: 95% at-least-good moves for each side, with only three inaccuracies apiece across the whole game. Neither Black’s rook trips to b1 nor White’s knight tour through e6, c6 and d7 shifts the evaluation. The draw is agreed after 56.bxa3. The club-level takeaway: at this level of accuracy, a balanced endgame isn’t won by ambition, only by the opponent’s mistake — and it never arrived.