My Drawn Simultaneous Exhibition Games Against GM Valentina Gunina, GM Vladimir Dobrov At the Start of 'The Chess Square 2026'

                                             

 My Drawn Simultaneous Exhibition Games Against

GM Valentina Gunina, GM Vladimir Dobrov

At the Start of 'The Chess Square 2026'

 

(by Yury V. Bukayev)

 

Dear readers, now I'd like to inform you briefly about my two recent very sharp drawn games against famous Grandmasters in their 15-board simultaneous exhibitions in Moscow. The official reports on these events are here: 

https://moscowchess.org/news/19321 ,

https://moscowchess.org/news/19338 .

Thus, here is the first of these games.

GM Valentina E. Gunina - Yury V. Bukayev

 simultaneous exhibition, Moscow, 2026,

June 6 ('The Chess Square 2026')

 

1. e4 e5 2. Nf3 Nc6 3. Bb5 f5 4. d3 fxe4 5. dxe4 Nf6 6. O-O Bc5 7. Nc3 d6 8. Bg5 h6 9. Bxf6 Qxf6 10. Nd5 Qd8 11. b4 Bb6 12. Nxe5 dxe5 13. Qh5+ Kf8 14. Nxb6 axb6 15. f4 Be6 16. Rad1 Qe8 17. Qh4 Kg8 18. f5 Bf7 19. c3 Kh7 20. Rd3 Rd8 21. Rg3 Rg8 22. Rh3 Qf8 23. g4 Rd6 24. g5 Bxa2 25. Qf2 Bf7 26. Kh1 Kh8 27. Qg3 Qe8 28. Qe3 Qf8 Draw 

And here is the second of these games.

GM Vladimir V. Dobrov - Yury V. Bukayev

  simultaneous exhibition, Moscow, 2026,

   June 13 ('The Chess Square 2026')

1. d4 d5 2. c4 c6 3. Nc3 Nf6 4. Nf3 a6 5. e3 b5 6. b3 Bg4 7. a4 bxc4 8. bxc4 e5 9. dxe5 Bb4 10. Bd2 Bxc3 11. Bxc3 Ne4 12. Qc2 Nd7 13. Be2 Qe7 14. O-O Nxc3 15. Qxc3 O-O 16. Rab1 Nxe5 17. Qxe5 Qxe5 18. Nxe5 Bxe2 19. Rfc1 dxc4 20. Nxc4 Rab8 21. Nb6 Bd3 22. Rb3 Rfd8 23. h4 Rd6 24. Rcc3 Rbd8 25. f3 f5 26. Kf2 Kf7 27. Rc5 Ke6 28. Rbc3 Rb8 29. a5 Bb5 30. Kg3 Rd2 31. h5 Rf8 32. Rc2 Rd3 33. Kf4 Ra3 34. Rxc6+ Draw 

We can see, Black played sharp gambits in both cases. It is interesting, in both cases White has made later a not good sacrifice. What role of chess psychology was here? I think, the role of psychology in maestro Valentina Gunina's main sacrifice 12. Nxe5 was not little, but the role of psychology in maestro Vladimir Dobrov's main sacrifice 34. Rxc6+ was enough little. 

Finally, let me show you some photos from these simultaneous exhibitions.

There is my move 5...Nf6 against GM Valentina Gunina:

There is her move 20. Rd3:

There is my move 24... Bxa2:

There is our final position:

There is a protocol of my game against Grandmaster Vladimir Dobrov with his signature in it (this protocol was enough wet at the end of the game because some rain-water was on our boards):

And here are the first minutes of GM Vladimir Dobrov's simultaneous exhibition (we play openings):

If you want, you could find more photos from this event on letochess.sport.mos.ru ('2026.06.13' folder).