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I am very happy with Schandorff's book about the caro-kann defence from 2010. However, it looks as if black has some nasty problems in this line which (white's 14th move) only has been played the last few years: 1. e4 c6 2. d4 d5 3. exd5 cxd5 4. c4 Nf6 5. Nc3 Nc6 6. Bg5 dxc4 7. Bxc4 h6 8. Bh4 Qxd4 9. Qxd4 Nxd4 10. 0-0-0 e5 11. f4 Bg4 12. Nf3 Bxf3 13. gxf3 Rc8. Here Schandorff concludes that black has an excellent position after fxe5. However, white has the nasty improvement Bf1! which really displays white's domination of the white fields; the bishop may go to h3 or b5. Black has mostly tried Nd5 but the results haven't been very good. Other tries are Bd6 and g5. Do you have any good ideas here? Maybe, it is better to simply play 6.-e6 instead of dxc4 but I don't like that type of positions very much when the knight is placed on c6...