David Paravyan: GM Equal Positions

David Paravyan’s dead draws

David Paravyan appears in 165 of the 14,738 positions in GM Equal Positions – from games played between 2022 and 2026, most often late middlegame (55) and endgame (39), most frequently against Hikaru Nakamura (4), Aleksey Grebnev (3), Jose Carlos Ibarra Jerez (3). 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

• Late middlegame – 55 positions
• Endgame – 39 positions
• Middlegame – 32 positions
• Rook endgame – 16 positions

Who David Paravyan drew them against

• Hikaru Nakamura – 4 positions
• Aleksey Grebnev – 3 positions
• Jose Carlos Ibarra Jerez – 3 positions
• Denis Lazavik – 3 positions
• Le Tuan Minh – 3 positions
• Sergei Lobanov – 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
• Bogdan-Daniel Deac211 positions
• Anish Giri191 positions
• Fabiano Caruana184 positions
• Matthias Bluebaum172 positions
• Magnus Carlsen168 positions
• Jose Eduardo Martinez Alcantara160 positions
• Maxime Vachier-Lagrave159 positions

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