It was just my luck that my round-three game in the Bad Wörishofen seniors featured an exception to this usually reliable rule.
The following position was reached after 11 moves of a Caro-Kann Tartakower.
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| Achim Heller (2045) has just played 11...b5!? |
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Stockfish17.1 and Dragon1 reckon White has at least a slight edge after 12.c5.
I intended playing c5, but first played 12.Qc2, thinking I was gaining a tempo thanks to the threat of capturing on h7 with check.
But my opponent 'overlooked' the threat, as I thought, by replying 12...bxc4!
I annotated this as !? in my original post, but really the move deserves an unadorned exclamation mark.
According to the engines, I should have replied 13.Bxc4, with an equal game.
Instead I played 13.Bxh7+ Kh8 14.Ng3!? with a sharp position where, as AH pointed out after the game, 14...g6 is simply good for Black.
The engines reckon White should prefer 14.Be4 or 14.Rae1!?, but agree Black has a slight edge either way.
I still find it hard to believe 13.Bxh7+ is not the best move in the position - there cannot be many examples of such a phenomenon.
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