Melkumyan, H. – Navara, D.

2622 2016 · Draw

Melkumyan (2622) and Navara (2728) met in 2016 in a King’s Indian that left familiar ground early: after 9.Nxc6 bxc6 the structure turned lopsided and both sides kept trading their best resources. The engine flags no turning point at all — nothing swings, neither player hands over an advantage. The accuracy figures back it up: 96% at least good moves for White, 95% for Black. Once 22.Qxc4 Rxc4 arrived, the game settled into a rook-and-bishop endgame that ran dozens of moves further, all the way to 100.Ke5 and the draw. The takeaway: a game can be long and tense without ever offering a mistake to punish.