Anish Giri: GM Equal Positions

Anish Giri’s dead draws

Anish Giri appears in 191 of the 14,738 positions in GM Equal Positions – from games played between 2022 and 2026, most often middlegame (78) and late middlegame (73), most frequently against Ian Nepomniachtchi (10), Hans Moke Niemann (9), Magnus Carlsen (7). Each one comes from a real game that ended in a draw, and was verified by Stockfish to stay level from both sides of the board for at least eight consecutive moves.

What kind of positions these are

• Middlegame – 78 positions
• Late middlegame – 73 positions
• Endgame – 21 positions
• Minor-piece endgame – 10 positions

Who Anish Giri drew them against

• Ian Nepomniachtchi – 10 positions
• Hans Moke Niemann – 9 positions
• Magnus Carlsen – 7 positions
• Wesley So – 7 positions
• Gukesh Dommaraju – 6 positions
• Alireza Firouzja – 5 positions

Why these are worth playing

A position two grandmasters could not win is the purest test of technique there is: no opening theory, no tactics to remember, just a level board and the question of who understands it better. Play any of them against Stockfish or a human-like Maia bot, or send the position to a friend and find out which of you cracks first.

Other grandmasters

• Hikaru Nakamura233 positions
• Denis Lazavik225 positions
• Bogdan-Daniel Deac211 positions
• Fabiano Caruana184 positions
• Matthias Bluebaum172 positions
• Magnus Carlsen168 positions
• David Paravyan165 positions
• Jose Eduardo Martinez Alcantara160 positions
• Maxime Vachier-Lagrave159 positions

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