Li Chao2 – Yu Yangyi

2744 2017 · Draw

Two players rated 2744 ELO, Li Chao2 and Yu Yangyi, met in 2017 in the Petroff Defense, and the opening’s solid reputation held up. Queens came off early with 7...Qxe2+, leaving a game decided by placement rather than tactics. The engine found no turning point at all: no blunder, no missed chance, with 95% of White’s moves at least good and 91% of Black’s. The rooks vanished one after another down the e-file, then the bishops repeated with 25.Bd4 Be7 26.Be3 Bf6 to the draw. The club-level lesson: in a symmetrical structure with no weakness to attack, a clean half point is not a failure but the logical outcome of two error-free defenses.