This game by you used that sort of development. I think that's a big improvement.
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Terrible win rate with Caro Kann
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llama36 wrote:
Oh, you're white in that 2nd game, I didn't notice lol
Thank you very much though, that was very helpful.
Dec 20, 2022
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GeordieSteel wrote:
llama36 wrote:
Oh, you're white in that 2nd game, I didn't notice lol
Thank you very much though, that was very helpful.
No problem.
And if you look with the engine, 5...a6 runs into trouble if white plays very aggressively with g4, f4... but I assume your opponents aren't going to play the first 8 moves perfectly and super aggressively like that 
But if it bothers you, then you can skip 5...a6 and just play the same idea with 5...c5 right away. a6 is a little safer (and has been played by a few good players in the past) and if your opponents punish you for it it's easy enough to just skip it... that's the reasoning behind why I recommended it.
caro the goat
Here are some famous games with it: Tal - Botvinnik
https://www.chessgames.com/perl/chessgame?gid=1032564
https://www.chessgames.com/perl/chessgame?gid=1032566
For example this game
(See the variation on move 5 for what I recommend)
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