Fabiano Caruana: GM Equal Positions
184 dead-draw positions from Fabiano Caruana’s games – level by Stockfish move after move. Try to win them.
184 of 14,738 curated positions
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Fabiano Caruana appears in 184 of the 14,738 positions in GM Equal Positions – from games played between 2022 and 2026, most often middlegame (80) and late middlegame (67), most frequently against Magnus Carlsen (14), Hikaru Nakamura (11), Levon Aronian (10). 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 – 80 positions
- Late middlegame – 67 positions
- Endgame – 25 positions
- Minor-piece endgame – 6 positions
Who Fabiano Caruana drew them against
- Magnus Carlsen – 14 positions
- Hikaru Nakamura – 11 positions
- Levon Aronian – 10 positions
- Wesley So – 10 positions
- Maxime Vachier-Lagrave – 10 positions
- Ray Robson – 8 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.