Love the back and forth banter and jokes between Alex & Gotham! Lets go! Two of the best content creaters in the game.

You convinced me. After decades with the Sicilian, i am preparing the CK for my next tournament. Because of you. I too want to have a relaxed, smug face, and enjoy the game while playing. You are an influencer. And you do this with serious content. Respect.

Thank you Alex! Love these videos. I was around 1100 in rapid and now I boosted myself to 1500-1600. Much love

These videos are actually game-changing 🔥🔥

One of the main takeaways i always get from your videos is that the difference between an 800 elo player and a GM is that the GM blunders pieces slightly less often 💀

Love the jokes with Levy & Grandpa Hikaru. It's insane how easy you make it look. I'm starting to find the moves when you tell us to pause, feels pretty damn good. Your an Amazing teacher! Thank you!!

Alex, the person who helped me get 400 points in 4 months! 1400-1800 by using only 4 openings: queen’s gambit, London, Trompowsky, and caro kann!

i have climbed like 300 elo in the last three months by watching your videos and picking up the caro and vienna/london openings as my main opening plans. amazing content, lots of support from finland💪🤙

Thank you so much Alex for all your top videos, so instructive 🙏🙌 You gave me passion of chess and the wonderful Caro-Kann is now in my heart ! Can't wait for next games with Caro and the London system 😍

Dear Alex , thank's for all your vidéos made on caro and london , i have learned a lot , it look's so easy for you and we see how fun is for you to play all these lines . JC from France

i've been eagerly waiting for your next caro-kann video🌟

Bro ur content has been a huge help. Started playing last year and just hit 2000 lichess with ur London and caro lines

Alex, just wanted to thank you for your Caro-kann videos. That's the opening I always use against e4, so you're are helping me SO much. Really appreciate it💪💯❤

Thank you so much for putting out these great instructional videos for free. Alex the Goat!

I got a 98.3% accuracy win with your Jabova London opening today. I also use the caro-kann because of you. Keep up the awesome content! 👍

I saw all your videos of the Vienna and Caro, you are literally my teacher at this moment 🧑🏼‍🏫

Loved this video: entertaining, very instructive and beautiful tatics! Thank you Alex!

Best chess teacher on KZfaq by far. Can you please do a video focussing on the Caro exchange variation? It's easily the most boring compared to advance and tartakaur. is there a way to make it as interesting as the other variations, as either white or black?

I always love it when the opponents get their hopes up that they will win by flagging. And then they get checkmated.

I passed 1200 in rapid a couple days ago thanks to your videos and Chessable course!

Nice to see you finally go past 50k subs! I hope you tenfold it and then tenfold it again! Alex "The Machine" Banzea!

Really appreciate the demonstration against higher rated players. Too often videos show FMs, IMs or GMs beating 1000 rated players and saying look how easy this is. This helps show how to really play the opening. Thanks.

Can’t wait for you course Alex!

Thank you Alex!! You've helped me get out of nooby lobbies I love the caro now

Such a helpful video. Love the caro kann. Keep it up!

Thank you very much! After playing Caro, i played the Black Lion for a while....This video is getting me back to base!

Pure genius...and so much fun to watch you plan and listen to your commentary. THANK YOU!!!😇

this content should have a million views at least, caro-kann for life!

recently found your channel and as a caro player I feel like I found cheat codes. great teaching style, thank you for the videos

I definitely will check out your upcoming Caro course.

The attacking sequence in the second game was really beautiful

Finally a new vid! Feelsgoodman

Thanks for your Effort

when is your caro-kann course coming out?

I am a regular Caro player so I’ll take ALL the Kan videos I can get Alex! 🎉

Caro-Kann is a fantastic opening. I went from 1300 to 1900 FIDE thanks to that opening! I did play it with Bf5 and I can assure you it works. People seldom know what to do... Some know like 14moves theory and start to do clueless things which not according to the opening plans for white. This causes you to easily take over the game into your direction. Many people play c5 or e5 and themselves as black and know a lot about that. The Scandinavian also works the same way. People often get clueless with white, and you can take over the game.

Hey Alex, love the videos! One question: sometimes my opponents don't take the Knight on F6 in Tartakower, instead they play something else and the tension is maintained. Am I supposed to capture their Knight on E4 or still keep the tension and keep developing?

Great waiting for more such videos..

Very useful big thx from Paris. Because in France we have a lot a course with blitzstream by exemple but not only caro cann and most of the time less level. I'am 1600 so your video is the best for me 👌🙏🙏

Thank you !!! very instructional !!!!

When is your Caro course coming out?????? I check everyday for it. Lol Also, we need a Vienna course as well. All your videos are golden. Thoroughly enjoy your thought process through out your videos. Really helps to understand concepts better. Thank you!!! ( I'm going to copy and paste this comment to all your videos until your course gets released. Hahaha)

Hey Alex thank you so much for the incredibly generous and instructive videos…i have a question and a tip..honestly what will the course add to us more than what you already explained in your youtube videos…i mean i’m 1200 and learning how to crush 1700s from your videos what more will i learn from the course and the tip..i guess it’s worth considering managing your time FOR US 😊 you tend to talk freely in the beginning of the game then as a powerful IM you blitz genius moves at the end to convert successfully but by doing so we miss the reasons behind your moves and sometimes the pre moves are hard to even follow lol have you considered a longer time controls like 10 min ?

Thank you Alex! How would you deal with the Hilbilly Variation? I come across it alot in my 800s.

Thank's Alex for all your vidéos. Your the best. ;o)

Love your videos, do you also still stream on twitch or youtube videos only?

In my games, the Botvinnik line of the advance IS the main line. Whether I’m playing with or against the Caro. It’s the only one I see. Of course, after watching your Jobava London videos, I haven’t seen the Caro-Kann in about 100 games as white

Your opponents....*deep thinking* dignity 😂 thank you for content. Love from Hungary

"If you play good, that just makes their rating irrelevant," wins my "Doh!" quote of the year.

30:10 "He takes the bite..." was correct! :-)

great video! thank you

Thank you very much

I love the caro-content ❤

Just thought that I would mention that I appreciate your telling us to pause the video at times. I have gotten the correct move in each instance, but that is not to say that I would have found the move when actually playing the game. It just goes to show that there can be hidden tactics that club players may not see as easily.

Alex. When can we get the caro kann chessablecourse? I’m ready to shift to these lines after 6 months of using the KIS lines

Great video

Alex, will you make a course against 1 d4 or 1 c4 day? I love your products on Chessable.

27:35 >opponent goes 4.c3 against the Caro-Kann botvinnik advance “…And with that, I think we can move on to the following game”

In the tartokower, what is the best move (No.7) for black when white has a bishop on c4 and white gives Qe2 check? (Black hasn't castled yet.)

Alex,it must be time for that caro course...Next few weeks i reckon.

Alex, where can I find a couple of games where white plays the exchange variation and then c4? Thanks

Love your videos - Thanks!! But in Game two you could have checkmate him in move 19. Why didn't you do it?? Or missed I something? (Simply Qeen g2)

Can I play Caro-Kaan on every opnening white plays or should I avoid Caro-Kaan on some white openings?

After QD6 Why can't the white pawn on F2 move to F4 and block the queen attack?

Was anyone else's favorite part of the video the photo of the body builder at 0:27? 🤣

I have been at Cluj-Napoca on 2017

Sir can we also play the tartakower in classical fide rated OTB games?

Botvinnik-Carls is really good to play because you're practicing against the London at the same time.

You are a beast man

Hey ik you don't have a course on this, but can you make a fun video using the hippo setup?

@54:53 after move 5( bishop B5) can you not go QA5 check winning the bishop before he castles?

when i watch these videos it makes sense but when i go to play them, i get faced with some random shit and i dont know what to do lmao

Can u do the Caro Kann against the very strong Goldmann Variation? ..3. Qf3 Haven’t seen u play against it. Thx

I'd watch a 4h long caro video anyday just sayin

Excellent.

This guy casually steamrolls the top % chess players while explaining & cracking jokes... This is crazy 🤣

Could you do a video exactly like this except on the London, this was super helpful to learn from

This might be a dumb question, but I’ve been staring at the screen and can’t figure out for the life of me why at 15:41 taking the pawn on b2 with the queen on the next move wouldn’t be mate. Is it a missed mate in 1 or what am I missing? I’m still kinda new to chess so I’m still learning a lot. Either way, your vids help a ton. As other have said, I play black with the Caro better than anything with white.

like the London system course, you may provide 50/100 model+reference games. by studying these games along with repertoire, anyone can reach 2000 Elo in a month

Damnnn i think i willl watch all ur playlist about caro kann

I've gotten really good playing black using the Caro Kann. Way better than when I play white! What should I use for White? I've tried the London and the Sicilian and I'm having trouble using them effectively. Maybe they need more time or maybe there is a better option?

I've been playing chess seriously for over half a year now and I started with the Caro-Kann and your video's. Right now I think I am pretty decent at the Caro-Kann with over 2500 games played. I really wanted to grind out 1 opening and get good at it but I feel like it's time to add another opening to my repertoire since I play a friend often and it can get quite boring playing only the same opening as black haha.. I also want to try something new so I was wondering, what is another good opening to play as a beginner against e5? :)

Alex la 39;47 de ce nu ai luat intai cu nebunul, ca apoi sa iei cu calul si să rămână furca rege/dama si castigai si o damă

Hey Alex - you always say to Bxf3 in the Advance Variation, but in the last game you played 12. h3 Bh5. What was the reason behind this? Under what circumstances does Black not trade the light-squared Bishop for the Knight on f3?

24:09 what’s wrong with c5 here? I’m really asking.

Love your videos Alex. Every time I watch them I learn something knew and then go and play 50 games against my 700 rated opponents that play so incorrectly they ruin theory instantly :( HAHAHAHA

Release date of caro kann chessable?

Played a Tartakower after stopping the video at 17:50. 95% accuracy. I´m a 1450 rapid ´but the engine says that I have played as a 2250. Time to watch the rest of the video. I don´t know exactly why, but if I put the game or a link to it, the comment it´s removed

I watched these games so often but in my case the always play such weird things like d4 and then e4 and not protecting with the knight so I can’t do the tartakov. Or they play d4, c4 and then later c5 and I never get the open file for the rook. When they play normal I have such a high win rate but whenever they play any different then in Alex video I loose and get angry 😞

how long before your Caro-Kann Chessable comes out, Young Champion ?

Alex, thanks to you I blow away 1.e4 with ease. It’s not even hard. What do I do against 1.d4? What response is as easy to play and forgiving of mistakes?

This is a great video, worthy of more views. Alex has to work his biceps though.

Horatio and Marcus approve of this video.

Caro-Kann speed run!

White may play 6 Bc4, hindering 6... Bd6 with 7 Qe2+. After that it seems there is no better move than 7... Be7. How would you play then?

Anybody here got the course? I can't afford the $200 course, but I saw there is a $20 short version of the Caro Kann Course. Whats the difference between both?

53:33 sounds very threatening

I have been playing pirc but i want to try caro kahn

stuck in the washing machine =)) bro what movies are you watching ? :D

Game 4 - that 1915 player got DESTROYED

title mislead me to believe we were crushing people who were playing the caro kann lol