Bogdan-Daniel Deac: GM Equal Positions

Bogdan-Daniel Deac’s dead draws

Bogdan-Daniel Deac appears in 211 of the 14,738 positions in GM Equal Positions – from games played between 2022 and 2026, most often middlegame (82) and late middlegame (73), most frequently against Maxime Vachier-Lagrave (5), Gata Kamsky (4), Nihal Sarin (4). 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 – 82 positions
• Late middlegame – 73 positions
• Endgame – 27 positions
• Rook endgame – 13 positions

Who Bogdan-Daniel Deac drew them against

• Maxime Vachier-Lagrave – 5 positions
• Gata Kamsky – 4 positions
• Nihal Sarin – 4 positions
• Alexander Rustemov – 4 positions
• Kirill Alekseenko – 3 positions
• Nils Grandelius – 3 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
• Anish Giri191 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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