Caro Kan(B12)

Nice game. But what is your point?

 nothing i just showed a game from a book

Interesting game. I used to play the Caro-kan but I stopped because I didn't like it when my opponent declined it by playing e5.

i think e 5 is a long term mistake.

I have been playing the Caro-kan without study, but not i am going to figure it out

Bst of luck all

Gerard

I don't like 3.e5 too. The game becomes too closed for me.

I like what Jon Speelman has to say about 3.e5

(summarizing, because the book is at home now)

3.e5 used to be considered bad for white, because black basically gets a French Advance minus one tempo but with the bishop outside of the pawn chain. But then in the early 1980s word spread about the wonderful tactical complications white could get in the 1.e4 c6 2.d4 d5 3.e5 Bf5 4.Nc3 e6 5.g4 Bg6 line. But after awhile black started to get adequate defensive resources, and then along came Nigel Short's idea about developing very simply for white (basically challenging the earlier notion that black is ok if white doesn't play energetically) - the development plan was for white to play Nf3, Be2, o-o, and c3 in some order. White scored pretty well in this line as well.

This was written probably around 1995 or so, plus or minus a couple of years. It's nice to know that the theory developed beyond "black doesn't have a bad bishop anymore so he's ok" - but for sure since then even more theory has been developed. I just don't have a book on it. :-)