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Gharibyan – Davtyan

86th ch-ARM HL 2026 · 2026.01.21 · Elo 2484/2489 · defensive · ★
The daily position for Tuesday 29 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 →
. . . . . . . .
p p . . . . p k
. q n . p . . .
. . . p P . Q .
. . . . . . . .
. . . . . r . .
P P . . . P . P
. . R . . . K .
White to move. the model predicts 76% at this level.

The solution

25.♕︎h5+! (not 25.♕︎h4+? ♔︎g8 26.b4 ♖︎f8 27.a4 ♕︎xb4 −+) 25…♔︎g8 26.♕︎xf3 ♕︎xb2 (if 26…♘︎xe5? then 27.♖︎c8+ ♕︎d8 28.♖︎xd8+ +−) 27.♖︎e1 ♕︎xa2 28.♕︎h5 ♘︎d4 29.♕︎e8+ =

“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

Gharibyan found it · ½-½

the game went on 28…♔︎f8 29.♕︎h8+ ♔︎f7 30.♕︎h5+ ♔︎f8 31.♕︎h8+ ♔︎f7 32.♕︎h5+ ♔︎f8½-½full game ↗

The field

100% of the 14 committed lines here found the key move — the model predicted 76% at this level.

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