David Paravyan: GM Equal Positions
165 dead-draw positions from David Paravyan’s games – level by Stockfish move after move. Try to win them.
165 of 14,738 curated positions
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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.