A World Champion's Caro-Kann Counter
For today's blog post, I would like to show you how a World Chess Champion defeats the rock-solid Caro-Kann Defence.
The opening concept is so easy to understand, it will be sufficient to share two game scores:
Now, we can say that the element of surprise was not a factor in the above game, in light of a previous test...
Now, what if Black is tricky and replies 2...e5, transposing to the Bishop's Opening? In that case, I have an example of my own:
Mikhail Tal proved far ahead of his time, for against Fischer's 1.e4, he pushed his c-pawn one square, held the pawn in place, smiled at Fischer, then moved it two squares forward. I expect this trend to increase in popularity as the infamy of 2.Bc4 against the Caro-Kann becomes more widespread.
