Rd. 4 - GM Maxime Vachier-Lagrave vs. GM Hikaru Nakamura

Written and annotated by GM Alejandro Ramirez.

 

The MVL-Nakamura game was crazy from the get go. An exciting King’s Indian Saemisch variation was too messy for even computers to understand. Somehow Nakamura made a serious mistake, but MVL was unable to punish it as he failed to find the correct continuation. This allowed the American to consolidate his extra pawn, but it was meaningless in the endgame.