Sengupta, Deep – Martirosyan, Haik M

2534 2020 · Draw

Vienna Game, 2020: Sengupta (2534) against Martirosyan (2630), with 4.g3 met by the immediate central break 4...d5. Black grabbed space with 9...e4, White answered 10.Ng5 and 11.f3 to dissolve that wedge, and the middlegame settled into a sequence where neither side let go. The engine flags no turning point at all: 90% of White’s moves were at least good, 92% of Black’s, with nothing that shifted the evaluation. After the liquidation into rooks and knights, the finish came with 47...Nc2+ 48.Kf1 Ne3+ 49.Ke1, repetition and a draw. The takeaway for club players: balanced positions stay balanced through an unbroken chain of sound moves, not through one brilliant idea.