Karpov's pet line in the Caro-Kann

Karpov's pet line in the Caro-Kann · Training Game

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9 күн бұрын

The Karpov Caro-Kann is one of my favorite chess openings. It's strategically and positionally rich, it could get tactical quickly, and it leads to very instructive, imbalanced endgames.
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The Karpov variation is one of those openings that requires deep strategic understanding rather than learning tons of theoretical variations. It leads to imbalanced positions in which both sides have several weaknesses, and in which there's multiple plans to play for for both sides.
This game was very thematic for the opening. I faced a 2400 rated opponent who'd lost a tempo in the opening by playing the unnecessary h3, other than that, we'd both followed main line theory as well as the most thematic ideas.
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Пікірлер: 42

@tomaszfindysz6846 7 күн бұрын

42:00 this sound should be the standard background for the chess games like this... It was so epic.

@pedrofonseca4233 7 күн бұрын

49:50 in this position Ne6+, followed by sacrificing the Knight for a the f4 pawn is a draw! The h1 square is different color than the bishop.

@zeldaire7484 7 күн бұрын

This is my first time hearing of this variation. What an interesting game!

@elijaharsenault 7 күн бұрын

haven’t finished the video yet but this seems very instructive, sort of reminiscent of daniel naroditsky’s videos

@adesages 7 күн бұрын

very interesting game !

@user-ot8bb3ng7o 7 күн бұрын

Great 👌 video

@Grandcapi 7 күн бұрын

Good game.

@bluefin.64 7 күн бұрын

Interesting that Stockfish says both your lone mistake and your lone blunder were overlooking ...a5. Engines don't understand that traditionally missed opportunities are not considered blunders. It's not like dropping material, and otherwise you had only 2 inaccuracies, so a well played game indeed.

@AverageBishop- 7 күн бұрын

Where's you cat Boris?

@jordylont1879 7 күн бұрын

I was fine with the sponsor integration during analysis, but during games? That sucks

@tomaszfindysz6846 7 күн бұрын

I was not live video...

@usemeasdislikebutton420 7 күн бұрын

You dont like someone you watch earn a living?

@bluefin.64 7 күн бұрын

Maybe the sponsor requested earlier placement. The longer a video the more people quit watching.

@Thematic2177 7 күн бұрын

Hey Stjepan, in the English language, if you don't know someone's gender, you can use the so-called singular "they", instead of saying "he or she")

@DrakoLykoi 7 күн бұрын

These days "they" may mean something else. There is always White, Black or my opponent.

@calebsutherland5221 7 күн бұрын

@@DrakoLykoionly if you didn’t understand what it meant originally

@mcronrn 7 күн бұрын

@@DrakoLykoi what else might ‘they’ mean? Saying ‘they’ when the gender is unknown has been grammatically correct since the 1980s and almost certainly longer…

@mcronrn 7 күн бұрын

(I went to school in the 1980s ☺️🤷🏻‍♂️)