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Sargsyan – Davtyan

86th ch-ARM HL 2026 · 2026.01.13 · Elo 2403/2489 · interesting · ★
The daily position for Tuesday 15 September 2026. It is still open to solve — the grader reads your whole line, sidelines and evaluation included, before anything here is shown. Cover the solution and solve it first →
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. . . . k . . .
. . . . p . . .
. . N p P . . .
. p . P . . . .
. P . . . . . .
n . . K . . . .
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White to move. the model predicts 71% at this level.

The solution

62.♘︎a4! (not 62.♔︎c2? ♘︎c3 ⩲) 62…♔︎d7 63.♔︎c2 ♔︎c6 64.♔︎b2 ♘︎c3 65.♘︎xc3 (not 65.♘︎c5? ♘︎b5 =) 65…bxc3+ 66.♔︎xc3 +−

“hard to find”, “the natural move” and the rest describe how often this move is played by Maia-2, weighted across the 1500/1900/2000 audience the difficulty model is fitted on — a model of human play, not a count of anyone who solved this position.

Members can take this away as a PGN — the diagram, the verified line and their own analysis in one file, for a database, Anki or Chessable.

What happened at the board

Sargsyan found it · 0-1

the game went on 64.♘︎c5 ♘︎c3 65.♘︎xe6 ♘︎e2 66.♔︎d2 ♘︎g3 67.♔︎e3 ♔︎d7 68.♘︎c5+ ♔︎c6 69.♔︎f4 ♘︎e2+ 70.♔︎g5 ♘︎xd4 71.e6 ♔︎xc50-1full game ↗

The field

64% of the 25 committed lines here found the key move — the model predicted 71% at this level.

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