Tari, A. – Blomqvist, E.

2593 2017 · Draw

Tari (2593) faced Blomqvist (2499) in a 2017 Scandinavian: 1.e4 d5 2.exd5 Qxd5 3.Nc3 Qa5, White castling long and pushing g4 and h4, queens coming off around moves 21-22. Black emerged clearly better from the resulting rook-and-knight endgame, until the turning point: 41...Re6 swung the evaluation from -3.0 to -1.3 from White’s side. The edge didn’t vanish entirely, but the bulk of it did, and the steady simplification through 67.Rxb5 ended in a draw. Accuracy: 84% White, 80% Black. The takeaway is blunt — in a winning endgame, one loose move can hand back half of everything you built.