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| Inside the Johannes Nepomuk Chapel in Bregenz city centre |
Spanton (1860) - Silke-Dorothea Kilzer (1522)
Bregenz Round Seven
French Exchange
1.e4 e6 2.d4 d5 3.exd5
My 25th attempt to play against the French Defence in the style of Paul Morphy.
3...exd5 4.Nf3 Bf5!?
An unusual response that has been tried by Russian grandmaster Alexander Morozevich.
5.Bd3 Bxd3 6.Qxd3
Black has exchanged her (slightly) bad bishop for White's (slightly) better bishop but has accelerated White's development.
6...Nc6 7.0-0 Nf6
GMs have preferred 7...Bd6 or 7...Qd7!?
8.Re1+ Be7 9.Qb5!?
I doubt Morphy would have gone pawn hunting like this.
9...Rb8
Stockfish15 and Komodo13.02 reckon Black should castle, meeting 10.Qxb7 with 10...Nb4, which they assess as giving more than enough compensation for a pawn.
10.Ne5 a6 11.Nxc6 axb5 12.Nxd8 Kxd8!?
Stockfish15 slightly prefers this to 12...Rxd8, but Komodo13.02 reckons the moves are of equal value.
13.Bf4 Ra8? 14.Bxc7+ Kd7 15.Be5 b4!
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| White is a pawn up but the white queenside pawns, despite being unmoved, are more vulnerable than the doubled and isolated black queenside pawns |
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16.Nd2?!
Probably better is 16.c3.
16...Rhc8 17.Rec1
White remains a pawn up but the white rooks are horribly passive.
17...Rc6 18.Nf3 h6 19.Bf4 Ke8 20.c3?!
White has a slight edge, according to the engines, after 20.Ne5 Rca6 21.Nd3 Rxa2 22.Rxa2 Rxa2 23.f3.
20...bxc3 21.Rxc3 Rxc3 22.bxc3 Ra3 23.Ne5 Rxc3 24.Rc1 Rxc1+ 25.Bxc1 Nd7 26.f4 f6
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| How should White proceed? |
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27.Nxd7?
The knight had to be retreated as the bishop-and-pawn ending is almost certainly winning for Black.
27...Kxd7 28.f5?
This makes the win easy, but after 28.Kf2 Kc6 29.Ke3 Kb5 30.Kd3 f5! the engines reckon there is no saving White, eg 31.Kc3 Ka4 32.Bb2 Ba3 33.Ba1 Bc1 34.g3 Be3 etc.
28...Kc6 29.Kf2 Kb5 30.Ke3 Kc4 31.Bd2 Ba3 32.g4 Bb2 33.h4 Bxd4+ (0-1, 43 moves).
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