This morning I faced a Polish teenager (born 2003).
Spanton (1804) - Bartosz Smukowski (1558)
Caro-Kann Tartakower
1.d4 d5 2.Nc3 c6 3.e4 dxe4 4.Nxe4 Nf6 5.Nxf6+ exf6!?
Perhaps slightly better known is 5...gxf6, but the text, which has been a favourite of players such as Tartakower, Capablanca, Nimzowitsch, Alekhine, Flohr and Donner, is preferred by the analysis engines Stockfish14 and Komodo12.1.1.
6.Nf3 Be6 7.c3 Nd7 8.Bd3 Qc7 9.0-0 Nb6 10.Re1 0-0-0 11.a4 Bd6?!
The engines suggest 11...g5, albeit preferring White.
12.Qc2?!
More-forceful play is required. After 12.c4 Black appears to be in difficulties, eg 12...Bb4 13.a5! Nd7 14.Bd2 Bxd2 15.Qxd2, when White's queenside play is ahead of Black's play on the kingside, or 12...Nd7 13.c5!? Bf4 14.b4, when again White's play seems much quicker.
12...g5 13.g3 h5 14.Bf5 Bd7?!
The natural-looking 14...Qd7 15.Bxe6 fxe6 is equal, according to the engines.
15.c4 Bb4 16.Re2
Also good is 16.Bd2.
16...Rde8 17.Be3!?
The engines prefer 17.Rxe8+ Rxe8 18.a5 Bxf5 19.Qxf5+ Qd7 20.Qd3.
17...h4 18.g4 Bxf5 19.Qxf5+ Qd7 20.Qxd7+ Kxd7 21.b3 h3
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| How should White proceed? |
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22.Nd2?
White is slightly better, according to the engines, after both 22.Ne1 and 22.Kf1.
22...Rh4 23.Rae1??
23.Kf1 keeps the loss to a single pawn.
23...Rxg4+ 24.Kh1 f5 25.f3 Rg2 26.Bf2
Or 25.Rxg2 hxg2+ 26.Kxg2 f4.
26...Bxd2 0-1
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