His position was +/- anyhow

Damn savage bro

There are a lot of very good chess players - even grandmasters - who would disagree with you. It's true, however, that the Caro-Kann Defense does not fit the style of many players. To me, it's similar to the French Defense - slow, solid and a tough nut to crack. Its strength lies mostly in its latency. It seems passive and then - suddenly - it's not! Personally, I'm not a fan of the Caro-Kann when I play with black, but that's only because it does not suit my style, but I still think it is a perfectly playable opening. I'm mostly a 1.d4 player but, occasionally, I'll play 1.e4 just to do something different when things start getting boring. This is when I face the Caro-Kann. I usually play the Two Knights Attack variation against it: 1.e4 c6, 2.Nf3 d5, 3.Nc3. It can be a tricky line but I've noticed that most Caro-players know how to handle it.

@@DavidEmerling79 The Caro has disappeared from super GM play. Even Karpov abandoned it in his later years, after a long string of losses. At club level, the Caro is even worse. The Von-Hennig is merely one way White can try to blow the Caro off the board. There are many others, and if Black isn’t ready for all of them, they are going to receive Morphy-esque beatings on a regular basis.

@@argumentative6909 I checked the Lichess master database. There were only 21 von Hennig Gambits. So, it's not a common way to combat the Caro Kann. Of those 21 games, White won only 3. There were 3 draws. Black won 15 of those games. It seems to me that the masters who play the Caro Kann know how to deal with the von Hennig Gambit - maybe amateurs do not - but masters do.

you are garbage....

Yeah, too many options for the opponent if you play main lines -- that's why I avoid them like the plague!! :) haha gotta be the one to surprise them, not the other way around. Let me know what moves are with 7. Nh3 , I am curious :)

@@GambitMan In the classical line 1.e4 c6 2.d4 d5 3.Nc3 dxe4 4.Nxe4 Bf5 5.Ng3 Bg6 6.h4 h6 7.Nh3! e6 8.Nf4 Bh7 9.Bc4 Nf6 10.0-0 then you get to smash on e6 whatever happens, and if black plays anything other than 10.Bd6 it's basically winning, otherwise you have good compensation and easy play similar to the lines you showed. Earlier deviations are also bad for black and result in a sacrifice on e6 nonetheless. Only problem is that black doesn't have to go for the classical line.

Ah very cool!! Thanks for sharing

@@GambitMan you are welcome

May be just Kxe4, Qe2 and play chess?

A very good question! I've done some research, and while this is generally a Stockfish-approved option for black, it seems that our bishop can still be quite dangerous from this diagonal. 1. e4 c6 2. d4 d5 3. Nc3 dxe4 4. Bc4 Nf6 5. f3 b5 6. Bb3 (6. Be2 and 7. Bxf3 is also an option) 6... exf3 7. Nxf3 e6 (black achieves their goal of keeping our bishop off the d3-h7 diagonal, as you note) 8. O-O Be7 9. Ne5 O-O 10. Kh1 (a useful move. We need to move our queen, gambitting the d4 pawn, and not with check. Black struggles a bit to develop due to the pressure on their c6 pawn, preventing Nbd7) 10... a5 11. a3 (this could have been included at any moment in the past five or so moves. a2-a3 is a better choice for white than a2-a4, because the latter provokes b5-b4 and an uncomfortable movement for white's queenside knight. The inclusion of a5-a4 and Bb3-a2 likewise changes nothing.) 11... Bb7 (Black, now overprotecting c6, prepares Nbd7. So far, I am pretty much just following the most common / only natural moves for black, and this move had been played all 4 times on Lichess in which this position has been reached. After white's next move, however, the number of games drops to zero.) 12. Qf3! Qxd4 (Potentially capturing c6 and b5, and threats of Ne4 with pressure on e6 and f7 too. Or just Bf4 and Rad1 / Rae1 with excellent development.) 13. Nxf7!? Kxf7 (-1.5 on Stockfish and -0.6 on Lc0, but I would rather be white here as black's position seems rather impractical to defend) (13... Rxf7 14. Bxe6 and white is playing Bg5 and getting back their material with tons of activity and open lines) 14. Bg5 (Essentially, white's next moves are Rad1 and Qh3, maybe with Bxf6 at some moment, and black needs to find some very difficult moves including Bc8 and Ke8 just to hang on. Much more fun for white, as none of black's pieces are playing too well. Lots of good ideas here!! :) Hope this helps!! :) glad you enjoyed -William

@@GambitMan very impressive the time you spend to research and share with a random commenter on KZfaq. I'm appreciative! I'll be copying and pasting that and studying it OTB. Thank you!