Rd. 3. - Hikaru Nakamura vs. GM Fabiano Caruana

Written and annotated by GM Alejandro Ramirez.

 

The last game of the night was between Hikaru Nakamura and Fabiano Caruana. In an interesting Grunfeld, Caruana sacrificed a pawn. His piece activity was enough to compensate for it and perhaps even help a little more. Nakamura was doing his best to keep everything under control; unfortunately Caruana then made a couple of mistakes. He allowed Nakamura to go into an opposite-colored bishop endgame with rooks where White was up a pawn. After a long period of torture, the game was drawn.