Morphing The French X

MY round-one game at the weekend's Northwick Park congress gave me my 10th chance to try to play against the French Defence in the style of Paul Morphy.
Spanton (1951/1680 - Shlok Verma (1691/156)
French Exchange
1.e4 e6 2.d4 d5 3.exd5 exd5 4.Nf3 Nf6 5.Bd3 Bd6 6.0-0 0-0 7.Nc3 c6 8.Bg5 Bg4 9.h3 Bh5
The main move.
For 9...Be6, see my game against Alan M Brown (1991/186): https://beauchess.blogspot.com/2019/09/morphing-french.html
For 9...Bxf3, see Morphy - Sicre: https://beauchess.blogspot.com/2019/07/morphy-v-french-part-six.html
10.g4!? Bg6 11.Ne5 Re8
Critical is 11...Qb6!? when Stockfish10 and Komodo10 give a move that is not in ChessBase's 2020 Mega database, namely 12.Bf4!?
Most successful of those moves played more than once, albeit from a small sample size, is 12.Bxf6. Géza Maróczy - Richard Réti, 1927 Olympiad (London), continued 12...gxf6 13.Nf3 Qxb2 14.Ne2 Qb6 15.Nh4 Re8 16.Nf5 Bf8 17.Neg3, when the engines reckon White has at least full compensation for the pawn (1-0, 43 moves).
12.f4 Bxd3 13.Qxd3
Black is lagging in development, and his next move exacerbates this, although it seems playable.
13...Be7!?
The engines suggest 13...Nbd7 or 13...Qc7!?, in each case with approximate equality.
14.Rae1 Ne4?
Seeking relief through exchanges, but the move is tactically flawed. The engines reckon White has at best a slight edge after 14...Nbd7.

White to make his 15th move

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15.Nxe4 dxe4 16.Bxe7 Qxe7
16...exd3 17.Bxd8 is good for White, eg 17...Rxd8 18.Nxd3 when White is a pawn up as 18...Rxd4?? loses instantly to 19.Re8#
17.Rxe4 Na6
If 17...f6, which Black may have been relying on, then 18.Qb3+ Kf8 (or 18...Qe6 19.Nd7! Qxb3 20.Rxe8+ Kf7 21.Rf8+ etc.) 19.Ng6+ wins for White.
18.Rfe1 Qc7 19.Nf3 Rxe4 20.Qxe4
White is a good pawn up (1-0, 66 moves).
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Morphing The French - Taking Stock
Since posting my series on Paul Morphy's play against the French Defence (the first part is here: https://beauchess.blogspot.com/2019/07/morphy-v-french.html), I have had 10 chances to try to emulate him, so this a good time to sum up how the experiment is going.
In those 10 games, I scored +6=2-2. My average elo (Fide or converted ECF) was 1928, and I preformed to a rating of 2026.
White is expected to perform at 35pts above rating, according to database computer analysis by IM - now GM - Larry Kaufman. Allowing for that, my performance is 63pts above expectation.
Ten games is a small sample size, but it is fair to say the results have been encouraging.