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Escalante Ramirez, Brian Sebasti – Shevchenko, Kirill
2454 2021 · Draw
Philidor Defence, 2021: Escalante Ramirez (2454) against Shevchenko (2599). White grabs the centre early with 4.Qxd4, trades on b5, castles long, and after a run of exchanges down the e-file the game drifts into a queen ending. The turning point is a non-event: on move 44 Black, clearly better, plays 44...Qe6+ and the evaluation slides from -2.2 to -0.2 — the win is gone. Trades on d4 then strip the board bare and White holds with repeated checks, ½-½. Accuracy: 83% for White, 82% for Black. Club lesson: in a queen ending, a "natural" check that makes no progress can hand back everything.
Escalante Ramirez, Brian Sebasti(2454)—
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