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Another game another draw! This game was defined by the big exchange starting at move 16, leaving the players in an endgame with both rooks and knight vs. bishop. Levy got into some pretty serious time trouble and was running extremely low (had around 3 minutes while his opponent had 25). IMO he did a good job getting out of it (with a line that would have forced the second set of rooks off the board) and making the draw.
Levy is now 1.5/3, and needs 5/6 remaining to make a GM norm. The norm looks unlikely, but he has gained 10 rating points just from these draws via this elo calculator. Good stuff from Levy!
Game 4, draw 4! Our boy is still undefeated!!! A long game with winning chances for both sides. Levy played a modern defense in response to 1. d4. The middle game resulted in a very closed position with the center of the board very congested (look at the position after 21. Nf4). Levy was eventually able to break in with a little tactical flair with 33… Bxh3, winning an exchange. Interestingly, like yesterday the engine had this as a draw despite Levy being up the exchange. Levy played on with time trouble since the winning chances were presumably with him and the exchange advantage.
The endgame turned exciting with Levy finding the breakthrough 51… c5+ bringing his rook into the game. At this point the queens came off the board and the engine saw a draw, but practically we headed to an endgame with winning chances for both sides in the time scramble. Both players made blunders in the endgame, resulting in some super interesting lines and tactics (see 58. Rh8+! for example). Levy sacrificed a rook for a promoted queen, and Kassa Korley had to respond by sacrificing the bishop for a passed pawn, leaving a rook and pawn endgame that was fairly easy to draw for two highly qualified players.
Levy is now 2/4, and needs 4.5/5 remaining to make a GM norm. The norm looks unlikely, but he has gained 6 rating points just from these draws via this elo calculator (I got the K factor wrong last game).