Landa, Konstantin – Tregubov, Pavel V

2613 2011 · Draw

Benko Gambit, 2011: Landa (2613) against Tregubov (2607), who offers the pawns with 3...b5. White grabs and then hands the material back with 5.b6, and the position liquidates fast — knights come off on d5, bishops trade on c4 and then on c3, leaving queens and rooks on open files. The engine flags no turning point at all: neither side lets anything slip. The accuracy figures agree, 91% for White and 95% for Black, and the game ends after 22.f3 in a draw. The lesson: against a gambit, returning the pawn at the right moment and simplifying cleanly kills the initiative without ever taking a risk.