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Thursday, July 27, 2017

Wesley So (2770) vs. Maxime Vachier-Lagrave (2789): Reti, Zukertort (A04)

Wesley So vs. Maxime Vachier-Lagrave
(USA, 2770) 1 - 0 (France, 2789)
[This is the ELO rating at the time the game was played]
Event: GCT Blitz YourNextMove, 2016.06.19, Reti, Zukertort (A04)

Black resigned • White is victorious

Opening
The opening played in this game is Reti, Zukertort (ECO: A04), established by the moves 1.Nf3. This opening was very rarely played by Wesley So with white, however it is the second most frequently played parent class opening when he was black (used in more than 11% of his games). The A04 is the second most frequently played parent class opening by Maxime Vachier-Lagrave, used in more than 16% of his games.

Endgame
There were a total of 16 moves in the endgame. The two players did not make a decisive mistake in any of those moves (decisive mistakes are such that would lose a winning/drawing game, or draw a winning one).

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