caro kann fantasy variation(3.f3) chessgames in pgn

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AfricanAlekhine

am trying to learn the opening as white, anyone know where i can get pgns of games played in this variations?, apparently pgnmentor.com doesn't have this games

ThrillerFan

I would suggest making a $30 or so investment and getting "The Extreme Caro-Kann" by Alexey Bezgodov.  It is an excellent book published by New In Chess.  Yes, it was published in 2014, but the validity of older opening books depends on the opening.  The theory in the Fantasy Caro-Kann, along with Openings like the Colle System, Exchange French, Four Knights Sicilian, or Latvian Gambit, don't change much.  A 2014 book on the Colle System would do you fine.  Same goes for the Fantasy Caro-Kann.  The Najdorf Sicilian is a different story all together.

 

Get the book and study the games thoroughly.  It should probably take you 6 months or so to complete the book, but it is well worth the time and investment.  I have won many games on the White side of the Caro over the board playing the Fantasy Variation.  I also consistently lost against it with Black during my brief stints of playing the Caro in 2012 and 2016.

AfricanAlekhine
ThrillerFan wrote:

I would suggest making a $30 or so investment and getting "The Extreme Caro-Kann" by Alexey Bezgodov.  It is an excellent book published by New In Chess.  Yes, it was published in 2014, but the validity of older opening books depends on the opening.  The theory in the Fantasy Caro-Kann, along with Openings like the Colle System, Exchange French, Four Knights Sicilian, or Latvian Gambit, don't change much.  A 2014 book on the Colle System would do you fine.  Same goes for the Fantasy Caro-Kann.  The Najdorf Sicilian is a different story all together.

 

Get the book and study the games thoroughly.  It should probably take you 6 months or so to complete the book, but it is well worth the time and investment.  I have won many games on the White side of the Caro over the board playing the Fantasy Variation.  I also consistently lost against it with Black during my brief stints of playing the Caro in 2012 and 2016.

 nope i would rather go through hundreds of games in the variation and understand the positions better than memorizing lines in an opening book

ThrillerFan

You have it all wrong.  You do not study a book to memorize.  You study the book to UNDERSTAND the ideas.

And that book is 68 fully annotated games, start to finish.  Not an opening tree.

It also features 50 test positions that are all from middlegame positions that resulted from the Fantasy Caro played in actual GM games.   Those test positions are not rehashes of the 68 fully annotated games.  They are from 50 other games.  The full game score of each are in the solutions, but only the test position is annotated for those - the rest of those 50 games are unannotated.  Again, not memorization at all!  You'd be making a mistake not investing in it.  You can still go through database games as well.

tygxc

Here is a top game

https://www.chessgames.com/perl/chessgame?gid=2042163 

zone_chess

Here's another one.

https://www.chessgames.com/perl/chessgame?gid=1135542

Sultan Khan's games are worth exploring anyway - since he came to Europe from India with little cross-influence, he had a very different chess style in those days.

Anyway I highly endorse the Fantasy variation. Makes a nice pawn structure for the bishops to maneuver around.