His most-recent classical tournament before that was the June 2022 Botvinnik Cup in Moscow, where he gained 121.6 Fide elo.
Stepan Bukharkov (1530) - Spanton (1743)
Réti
1.Nf3 d5 2.g3 Nc6 3.d4 Bf5 4.Bg2 Qd7 5.Ne5!? Nxe5 6.dxe5 c6
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| How should White proceed? |
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7.e4!?
This may be a novelty. Hungarian Gedeon Barcza played 7.h3 in a 1946 game and, three years later, 7.c4.
7...dxe4 8.Qxd7+ Kxd7 9.Nc3 e3?!
Black should probably get on with development.
10.Bxe3 Bxc2?
Grabbing a pawn is simply wrong.
11.Rc1 Bg6 12.Rd1+?!
The queen's rook is already well-placed. Almost certainly better is castling, followed by playing the king's rook to d1.
12...Kc7?
Stockfish16 and Komodo14.1 much prefer 12...Kc8, and if, as in the game, 13.0-0, they reckon 13...e6 equalises. However the engines give 13.e6!? as good for White.
13.0-0 e6
16.Bxd5
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| White to play and win |
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14.Rd2
White may have a tiny pull after this, but the engines give 14.Nb5+!, the point being 14...cxb5 runs into 15.Rc1+, eg 15...Kb8 16.Rfd1 Be7 17.Rd7 etc, or 15...Kd7 16.Rfd1+ Ke8 17.Bxb7 Rb8 18.Bc6+ Ke7 19.Bc5#. Better seems to be 14...Kc8 15.Nxa7+ Kc7 16.Nb5+ Kc8 (capturing the knight is still no good), but 17.Bb6 Be7 18.Na7+ forces Black to give up the exchange.
14...Ne7 15.Rc1 Nd5?
Black holds with 15...a6.
16.Bxd5 exd5 17.Nxd5+ Kc8 18.Bg5 h6 19.Nb6+! axb6 20.Rd8+ Kc7 21.Rxa8 hxg5
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| Black has two bishops for a rook, but is lost |
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22.Rd1 Bf5 23.Rdd8 Be6 24.Rxf8 Rxf8 25.Rxf8 Bxa2
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| Black now has a pawn for the exchange, but the engines favour White by the equivalent of about a rook |
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26.Kf1 g4 27.Ke2 c5
Playing 27...Bd5 is not much of an improvement - Black is lost anyway.
The game finihsed:
28.f3 gxf3+ 29.Kxf3 Bd5+ 30.Kf4 b5 31.h4 g6 32.g4 Kd7 33.h5 Ke7 34.Rc8 gxh5 35.gxh5 Bc4 36.h6 Bd3 37.Rxc5 f6 1-0
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