Caro-Kann, Advance, Botvinnik-Carls Defense Tournament

Start Date: Sep 29, 2021

Finish Date: May 19, 2022

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In the Caro-Kann Advance Variation there are only two good moves that Black can play on move 3: the Bf5 mainline and c5.

This opening line is recommended by many strong International Masters including Levy Rozman a.k.a. Gotham Chess. See https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ebfzL_GwiIE

3...c5 is known as the Botvinnik-Carls variation or sometimes the Arkell/Khenkin variation

All games in this tournament start with the position after 1.e4 c6 2.d4 d5 3.e5 c5 and you play both the White and Black sides of the board.