Today we follow the Stockfish - Ethereal game in round 33. There were only 2 decisive games so far in RR5 out of 17 played. Can Stockfish break the sequence of draws? Can Ethereal hold? I'm not considering the option that Ethereal can win, too farfetched. Stockfish and Ethereal have played 4 games so far in the division, Stockfish won twice with white and once with black, only one draw so far.
move 12: We are in the Sicilian section of Cato's openings. The 8-move book has been played in recent games of high level. Stockfish's eval at the opening is less than 0.5, relatively drawish. So far the engines are following the most played line, Stockfish's eval is starting to increase, Ethereal is still confident it can hold.
move 16: Stockfish did not expect Ethereal's move 13, its eval dropped in response, then jumped back up in the next move. Ethereal's move 15 was again unexpected, this time Stockfish's eval jumped over 0.8. The black king side loks a little weak.
move 20: Ethereal's eval dropped to 0 for a moment, then came back. Ethereal now has a passer in the center, it is not going anywhere soon though. The center opened up a little, the black DS bishop looks bad now. Stockfish's eval jumped to around 1 on move 20, Ethereal's eval also jumped over 0.5, the evals are trending higher.
move 25: Both are expecting exchanges soon. Stockfish surprised Ethereal (and everyone else) with Kg1, Ethereal's eval jumped. Then Stockfish made its signature move g4, this time eval dropping, very unstable in this game so far. Stockfish is a pawn up after exchanging a pair of bishops and a pair of knights, evals starting to come down.
move 29: Evals dropping to 0, it seems Ethereal is holding after all. The engines are delaying the exchanges, both PVs look similar and drawish. This is going to be a draw, I'll come back later to verify.
move 58: As expected the game ended in a draw, though it took 30 more moves for the draw rule to kick in.
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