Fighting the Caro-Kann

A sound, practical and challenging repertoire against the Caro-Kann, based on the currently popular Advance Variation (1 e4 c6 2 d4 d5 3 e5)

Course stats

For: white pieces

Total students: 53

Recommended for: Casual players Intermediate players Advanced players

Trainable variations: 84

Alternative variations: 8

Informational variations: 8

Avg. line depth: 11.48

Instruction: 14,571 words

Media: 2 videos

Released on: Dec 12, 2017

Support level: High

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Variation Details

3 x Main Level (5.00 avg depth)

23 x 3...Bf5 - Part 1 (13.00 avg depth)

14 x 3...Bf5 - Part 2 (11.86 avg depth)

26 x 3...Bf5 - Part 3 (12.35 avg depth)

29 x 3...c5 (10.48 avg depth)

5 x Sidelines (8.60 avg depth)

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Last 10 Position Comments

mainline_novelty 399,740 Thanks for pointing this out - 12 f4!? does look like a reasonable move, and I've added it as an alternative. The two probably end up transposing, actually, in the case of 12...gf4 13 Nd3 f6 (and 12 Nd3 f6 13 f4 gf4), which admittedly I didn't mention. I suppose the benefit of starting with 12 Nd3 is that maybe 12...f6 can be met with 13 ef6!? Nxf6 14 f3 - taking away the e4 square from Black's Knight, and hoping to later use e5.

I may update this variation later. 1 week ago

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SmithyQ 3,469,030 Is there a reason we don't just go f4 right now? If Black takes, we can still go Nd3 and Nxf4, which is more active than the Nf2 like the end of the mainline. If Black doesn't take, well, we've got our f4 in a tempo earlier than the Nd3 line. 1 week ago

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mainline_novelty 399,740 No problem! 2 weeks ago

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SmithyQ 3,469,030 Thank you. I just checked, and it indeed a softfail. Thanks for the quick reply, as usual! 2 weeks ago

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mainline_novelty 399,740 Done...I think.

I have now figured out how to manually add alternative moves, so Rad1 should now be soft-fail in the line from the French Defense book. 2 weeks ago

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SmithyQ 3,469,030 Is it possible to have g4 as a soft fail here? This position is identical to the alternative line, where g4 is the move, but unless I memorise "Part 3 is c4, Part 2 is g4," I can't train both of them. 2 weeks ago

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SmithyQ 3,469,030 Awesome, thanks for the quick response! 4 weeks ago

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mainline_novelty 399,740 Done, sorry about that! 4 weeks ago

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SmithyQ 3,469,030 The following variations, as well as one later in the chapter, do not have any key moves, and we need to review from move 1 for all. Could the key moves be updated for these? 4 weeks ago

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mainline_novelty 399,740 Thanks for the kind words!

I was in the same boat as you; I barely got the CK OTB, but had a miserable score against it in blitz playing the 3 Nc3/d2 stuff. I'm 2/2 in tournament games with this repertoire so far (admittedly against lower rated opponents), one of which turned out to be surprisingly thematic for this line. Hopefully that keeps up :p 1 month ago

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