Matthias Bluebaum: GM Equal Positions
172 dead-draw positions from Matthias Bluebaum’s games – level by Stockfish move after move. Try to win them.
172 of 14,738 curated positions
2b1nk2/1p2bpp1/p6p/3p4/3N4/4PP2/PP2B1PP/4BK2 b - - 4 23Matthias Bluebaum’s dead draws
Matthias Bluebaum appears in 172 of the 14,738 positions in GM Equal Positions – from games played between 2022 and 2026, most often late middlegame (58) and middlegame (57), most frequently against Gata Kamsky (4), Le Tuan Minh (4), Hikaru Nakamura (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
- Late middlegame – 58 positions
- Middlegame – 57 positions
- Endgame – 37 positions
- Minor-piece endgame – 8 positions
Who Matthias Bluebaum drew them against
- Gata Kamsky – 4 positions
- Le Tuan Minh – 4 positions
- Hikaru Nakamura – 4 positions
- Kirill Alekseenko – 3 positions
- Dmitry Andreikin – 3 positions
- Benjamin Bok – 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.