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Attacking against Caro-Kann

  • 3 months ago · Quote · #41

    chessnutman

    I don't think anyone suggested it yet, but there also the Accelerated Panov Attack with a quick c4:


    I think this requires some accurate play by black and it's not all too common. I also found a blitz game which Short won against Karpov who surely wasn't easy to crack in the CK and another win against Bent Larsen in the same variation at the same tournament, Budapest 1987

  • 3 months ago · Quote · #42

    SonofaBishop67

    jempty_method wrote:
    SonofaBishop67 wrote:

    I used to hate playing against the Caro as White (although I play the black side of it!) until a friend of mine showed me an interesting line in the exchange variation, an early h2-h3. I have won a couple of nice games with this setup...some ideas are to prevent Black from developing his light squared bishop comfortably, dominate the e5 square, and prevent Black from using the b8-h2 diagonal. Here are a couple of games I played against the Caro that have boosted my confidence against that defence:

    The problem is 4...Nf6?! is inaccurate, instead Black plays 4...Nc6 since White's d-pawn is hanging, and only after 5. c3 Nf6.  Now the slow 6. h3?! can be met by either 6...g6 or the more thematic 6...e5.  Fischer (among others) of course knew this and played 6. Bf4

    Well if Polgar played h2-h3 early, who am I to give it a ?! :P Even if 4...Nf6 is inaccurate, at my level of play I encounter it over 50% of the time; Even after 4...Nc6 5.c3 Nf6 6.h3!? g6, White plays 7.Bf4, and g2-g4 is coming; and on 6...e5 White is better on 7.dxe5 and 8.Qe2. To be fair to the Black side (I play the Caro too!), ...Qb6 is often a good way to distract White.

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