Hikaru Nakamura: GM Equal Positions
233 dead-draw positions from Hikaru Nakamura’s games – level by Stockfish move after move. Try to win them.
233 of 14,738 curated positions
2r3k1/1p2q1pp/p1npp3/4p3/P3P3/3QP3/1PP1N1PP/5RK1 w - - 1 23Hikaru Nakamura’s dead draws
Hikaru Nakamura appears in 233 of the 14,738 positions in GM Equal Positions – from games played between 2022 and 2026, most often late middlegame (96) and middlegame (94), most frequently against Magnus Carlsen (19), Alireza Firouzja (16), Fabiano Caruana (11). 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 – 96 positions
- Middlegame – 94 positions
- Endgame – 31 positions
- Minor-piece endgame – 6 positions
Who Hikaru Nakamura drew them against
- Magnus Carlsen – 19 positions
- Alireza Firouzja – 16 positions
- Fabiano Caruana – 11 positions
- Denis Lazavik – 11 positions
- Jose Eduardo Martinez Alcantara – 8 positions
- Wesley So – 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.