Hot on the heels of Jeffrey Xiong's unbelievable win in the Fide World Cup to knock out Jan-Krzysztof Duda, Chessable has released this new and updated Caro-Kann repertoire.The Caro-Kann Starter Kit is a guide to the increasingly popular Caro-Kann Defense and gives you the basis of a Black repertoire to move forward with.
Warning: this course contains humour
It is modeled on Chessable's hugely-popular Short & Sweet series and is roughly a similar level of complexity.
This course is short, concise and to the point. It is the basics bundled together into one easy-to-manage set of lines.
A LIVE course that will be added to
The variations suggested are almost all main lines, usually the absolute main lines. For example, Bf5 against the Advance and in the Classical, ...e6 with Bb4 against the Panov, ...e6 against the Fantasy variation, B-g4xf3 against the Two Knights.
While it is impossible to present a complete repertoire with the Caro (or any other opening) without hundreds of lines, this should be enough to get you up and running and to give you a feel for how to play the variations without an excessive early workload.
In these days where so many sharp openings are analyzed out to a draw, the slower systems often actually represent Black's best winning chances. I wish you the best of luck with the repertoire :)
- Theoryhack
Theoryhack has created it for
beginner and intermediate players - and in particular his own students. It is his own training material.
The variations are lightly annotated, but like most of Theoryhack's courses it is a continuous work in progress. Extra content and explanation will be added if and when required (if there is popular demand!).
Theoryhack says the course should work particularly well as part of a repertoire based around c3/c6 and Bf4/Bf5, ie London/Caro/Slav systems.
