Overview
The Caro-Kann is a rare beast among chess openings. While respected as a sound and safe way to start the game, it also avoids symmetry or simplification. This allows Black many ways to keep the game unbalanced and play for a win. Two Norwegian opening experts provide a set of options that take full advantage of this flexibility. In the main line, you are given a choice between the 4...Bf5 and the 5...exf6 systems - but both strictly in their modern dynamic forms! In the latter, Hansen is a world-leading authority, with a wealth of experience to explain the typical mistakes White makes when facing this deceptively tricky line. By studying his material, you will be well ahead of the game in this rapidly-evolving system. For instance, the critical improvements over the Duda-Carlsen game in 2020 were already in Hansen's files from two years earlier. The other recommended systems for Black are also aggressive and very much the '21st-century Caro-Kann'. It's 3...c5 against the Advance, in which Hansen is also an outstanding specialist. The Panov Attack is answered with ...g6 lines - strategically ideal, and nowadays backed up by amazing modern computer analysis. Against the Two Knights, we are offered an ...exf6 option as well as the ...Bg4 approach. The repertoire is completed with good sensible recommendations against almost every other conceivable move White can throw at the Caro-Kann. This extremely up-to-date book has an innovative structure, with 'lessons', model games and theory 'magnifiers'.
Full Product Details
Author: Sverre Johnsen ,
Torbjorn Ringdal Hansen
Publisher: Gambit Publications Ltd
Imprint: Gambit Publications Ltd
ISBN: 9781911465676
ISBN 10: 1911465678
Pages: 240
Publication Date: 04 March 2021
Audience:
General/trade
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Young adult
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General
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Teenage / Young adult
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active
Availability: In Print
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Reviews
I am of no doubt that the diligent, disciplined reader will [improve] after absorbing all or even some of this work. I know that I certainly have already. I actually feel much more confident about playing 1...c6 now. It has done what a good chess book should - give me the motivation to investigate further. - Carl Portman, Chess Book Reviews
Cleverly, the authors have organised the material so that preparation of the material is in the most logical sequence eliminating the need for the student to create a preparation plan for themselves. ... an excellent repertoire trainer for Black against 1 e4 - John Upham, British Chess News I am of no doubt that the diligent, disciplined reader will [improve] after absorbing all or even some of this work. I know that I certainly have already. I actually feel much more confident about playing 1...c6 now. It has done what a good chess book should - give me the motivation to investigate further. - Carl Portman, Chess Book Reviews
Author Information
Sverre Johnsen is a chess analyst, researcher, organizer, trainer and writer from Norway. He is co-author of Win with the London System and Win with the Stonewall Dutch, two of the best-selling openings books of recent years. Grandmaster Torbjorn Ringdal Hansen is also from Norway. He is one of the founders of the chess retail business Sjakkhuset and works full-time as a chess trainer. He was the first coach of Magnus Carlsen (in 1999) and has worked with three other players who went on to become grandmasters.
