Caro-Kann, White Pawn d5.

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CoreyMeredith

Hey guys, so i'm trying to learn the caro-kann and all the examples i lean don't matter if people play moves that arent brought up.

I just had a game where White played E4, i responded with C6, all good.
But then White proceeded to play Pawn E5 and i was stumped. I couldnt progress my pawn to d4 like normal because i would be en passanted, not could i bring my knight out because it was blocked by my pawn.
I then pushed a pawn to challenge and then his knight came out to protect it.

He just destroyed my pawn structure and i just resigned.
I would just like to know if there is a simple counter to this by people who are good at the caro kann.
Thanks!

Here is the pgn in case anybody wants to take a look:

[Event "Live Chess"]
[Site "Chess.com"]
[Date "2023.05.12"]
[Round "?"]
[White "VladimirSvetlyi"]
[Black "CoreyMeredith"]
[Result "1-0"]
[ECO "B10"]
[WhiteElo "628"]
[BlackElo "589"]
[TimeControl "600"]
[EndTime "8:59:57 PDT"]
[Termination "VladimirSvetlyi won by resignation"]

1. e4 c6 2. e5 f6 3. Nf3 d6 4. d4 Nd7 5. exf6 gxf6 6. d5 Ne5 7. Nxe5 fxe5 8.
dxc6 bxc6 9. Nc3 c5 10. Bb5+ Bd7 11. O-O Rb8 12. a4 Bxb5 13. axb5 Nf6 14. Rxa7
Ng4 15. Qxg4 1-0

ThrillerFan

I am not a Caro-Kann player, but what I would do is 1.e4 c6 2.e5 d5 3.exd6 e5 with 4...Bxd6 to come next and you have two open Bishops.

JapjotSinghChess10

Good

MaetsNori

Something like this would be fine.

This would also be fine.

Playing 2 ...d5 is the simplest way to respond. Then recapture if white takes. If white doesn't take, then:

Then you're in the normal Advance variation.

CoreyMeredith

Thank you all for the advice!
I'm not too knowledgable about chess theory so some things just go over my head, but my worry was that by letting the pawn en passant my pawn then that puts me in a position where the pawn in front of my king gets exposed but it seems like i was overworrying about thet