Sarana, A. – Fedoseev, Vl3

2641 2019 · Draw

Sarana (2641) and Fedoseev (2680) met in 2019 in a Modern Defense that turned into an endgame almost immediately: the queens came off at 8.Qxd8 Rxd8, and everything after that was played without them. Both sides then traded down methodically — bishops, knights, then a pair of rooks — into a dead-level rook ending. The engine flags no turning point at all: 94% at-least-good moves for White, 93% for Black, and no moment where the evaluation genuinely shifted. The finish is a repetition, White’s rook shuttling between c5 and d5, which is exactly what the position deserved. Club takeaway: a clean game doesn’t need a blunder to be instructive, and a faultless endgame is simply shared.