Caro-Kann with 3.Nc3 b5!?

   Played by Gurgendize as black against Tal in the 26th Soviet Championship in 1968. It seems to bee an interesting line. Any ideas on it? 

http://www.chessgames.com/perl/chessgame?gid=1139837 is the game

Another nice sacrificial game by Tal!

Yeah, Tal's simple 4 a3! seems to make ...b5 look silly.

looking at the pros and cons:

              Pros:  The move threatens b4                          

              Cons: the move premanently weakens the queenside and slighlty hinders the activity of black's light-squared bishop,

           After weighing the pros and cons, we see that the move Tal played, a3, is correct.     

                                           White is better.

Seeing that dxe4 isn't very pleasent for black, what about Nf6?

                         The idea for the pawn sacrifice on e6 came from:

   Because of the structur - pawns on e6 and f7, there are ideas similar as to ideas in the panov-botvinnik attack, sacrificing a piece on g6, e6, and f7. I will give some examples later.

Ask the person who first played it.

Korchnoi can hook you up

    Basically, I meant " Don't ask me"

Probably should not have done an extra large diagram...