Handy Advice

MY round-one opponent in the Bad Wörishofen U2000 tournament today turned out to be a doctor - a skin specialist, he said - who pointed out that some 20,000 people a year die from influenza in Germany.
I had earlier declined to shake hands, which is the official advice for the congress, but quickly changed my mind.
Detlev Keymling (1602) - Spanton (1837)
Pseudo-Chigorin
1.Nf3 d5 2.d4 Nc6 3.e3 Bg4 4.Bd3?! e5
Black's dream in the Pseudo-Chigorin, as in the Chigorin proper, is to get in this move, which White's last has made trivially possible.
5.dxe5 Nxe5 6.Be2

Looks familiar?

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The game has transposed to a very popular line of the Classical French, but with colours reversed.

Position in the Classical French usually reached by the move-order 1.e4 e6 2.d4 d5 3.Nc3 Nf6 4.Bg5 dxe4 5.Nxe4 Be7

6...Bxf3 7.gxf3 Nf6 8.Nc3
Normal, allowing for the reversed colours, is 8.f4 or 8.b3.
8...Be7 9.b3 Qd7 10.Bb2 0-0-0 11.Nxd5??
DK suggested 11.Qd4 in the postmortem, meeting 11...Nc6 with 12.Qa4, when Stockfish10 and Komodo10 reckon Black has much the better game.
11...Nxd5 12.Bxe5 Qe6 13.Bc4? Qxe5
White could in all conscience resign here, or even a move earlier, which would have put me in a good position to win the 40-euro shortest-game kitty that Paul Stokes, Vic Rumsey, Ray Kearsley and I are competing for. Instead DK played on until move 31.