Maxime Vachier-Lagrave: GM Equal Positions

Maxime Vachier-Lagrave’s dead draws

Maxime Vachier-Lagrave appears in 159 of the 14,738 positions in GM Equal Positions – from games played between 2022 and 2026, most often middlegame (59) and late middlegame (55), most frequently against Fabiano Caruana (10), Magnus Carlsen (7), Wesley So (7). 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 – 59 positions
• Late middlegame – 55 positions
• Endgame – 31 positions
• Rook endgame – 7 positions

Who Maxime Vachier-Lagrave drew them against

• Fabiano Caruana – 10 positions
• Magnus Carlsen – 7 positions
• Wesley So – 7 positions
• Levon Aronian – 6 positions
• Gukesh Dommaraju – 6 positions
• Bogdan-Daniel Deac – 5 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
• David Paravyan165 positions
• Jose Eduardo Martinez Alcantara160 positions

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