Samuel Shankland vs Yusnel Bacallao Alonso, Caro-Kann Defense, Advance Variation, Botvinnik-Carls Defense (B12)
2018 Capablanca Memorial, Round 5, Havana, 05/13/18
Samuel Shanklad played a Cuban GM in the Capablanca Memorial. He played the Advance variation against the Caro-Kann, and his opponent played the rare Botvinnik-Carls Defense with c5, instead of Bf5 on move 3.
Shankland chose a very aggressive plan against black’s defense and managed to get a very favorable position, despite having a few weaknesses himself.
Final Standings:
Samuel Shankland 7.5/10
Alexey Dreev 6/10
David Anton Guijarro 5.5/10
Aleksandr Rakhmanov 4/10
Yusnel Bacallao Alonso 3.5/10
Lazaro Bruzon Batista 3.5/10
Shankland won the tournament in clear first and played very high level chess as he did at the US Championship.
Game moves:
1. e4 c6 2. d4 d5 3. e5 c5 4. dxc5 e6 5. Nf3 Bxc5 6. a3 Ne7
7. b4 Bb6 8. Bd3 a5 9. b5 Nd7 10. O-O Ng6 11. Bb2 Qc7 12. Re1
a4 13. Nbd2 Nc5 14. Bxg6 fxg6 15. Qe2 O-O 16. Bd4 Ba5 17. Rec1
b6 18. c4 Qe7 19. Qe3 Bb7 20. cxd5 Bxd5 21. Bxc5 bxc5 22. Rab1
Qb7 23. Nc4 Bxf3 24. gxf3 Rxf3 25. Qxc5 Qe4 26. Nxa5 Rf4
27. h3 Qf5 28. Rb4 Qg5+ 29. Kh2 Rf3 30. Rc3 Rxc3 31. Qxc3 Rxa5
32. b6 1-0