Caruana, F. – Duda, J.

2783 2022 · Insufficient material — draw

Sicilian Najdorf, 2022: Caruana (2783) against Duda (2750), a game where nothing slips. The engine flags no turning point at all — no blunder, no missed chance across fifty-one moves. Queens come off early with 18.Qxd6 Qxd6, the rooks follow, and the bishop-versus-knight ending is stripped down piece by piece: 45.Bxh5, 46.Bxf7, 48.Bxf3, 51...Nxa3. Accuracy: 97% for White, 100% for Black. The draw is the honest result. The lesson for club players: a level endgame is not won by finding one magic move, but by refusing, move after move, to be the first one to go wrong.