Kramnik, Vladimir – Svidler, Peter

2810 2013 · White wins (resignation, time or agreement)

A textbook Grünfeld from 2013: Kramnik (2810) against Svidler (2747). The queens come off early with 11...Qxd2+ 12.Kxd2, and the game turns into a long technical endgame in which the white king walks up to b3 and later c4. The engine flags no turning point at all — no single move that swings the evaluation — only a steady gap in precision: 94% for White, 82% for Black. What decides it is the run of pawn advances, f4, a4, h4, g4, then e5 and f5, stretching the position without ever handing Black counterplay. The club-level takeaway: in a queenless endgame, wins come from accumulating good moves, not from one combination. 1-0.