I think you should have given up the N for 3 pawns, safe king and centre pawns. I think you are winning after 18... 0-0!. I looked at 0-0-0 but then he can pawn storm you on that side, but if you 0-0-0 you have more freedom with your pawns.
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1. e4 c6 2. d4 d5 3. e5 Bf5 4. c4 e6 5. f4? White has a number of good moves here, but this rare move isn't one of them. Nf3, Nc3, h4 and Nd2 are all much better.
5...Nd7 The obvious Be7 was better.
6. Nf3 c5?? This was a major mistake and needlessly weakens black center and d pawn,
7. Nc3 Better was cxd5 exd5 Nc3
7...Nb6?? another mistake. either dxc4 or a knight move such as Nh6 or Ne7 was better. White now has the advantage.
8. cxd5 exd5 9. Bb5+ Bd7 10. Bxd7+ Qxd7 11. O-O cxd4 12. Nxd4 Bc5
13. Kh1?? Mistake, white should play 13.Be3.
13...Ne7 14. f5 Bxd4 15. Qxd4 Nxf5 16. Qf2 g6 17. e6??? This was bad, as black can simply take the pawn, then 0-0 and attack white's queen. Much better was g4.
17...fxe6 18. g4 Ng7? Not good. Much better was 18...0-0 19.gxf5 Rxf5 20.Qg2 Rxf1+ 21.Qxf1 Rf8
19. Bg5 Rc8 20. Rad1?? No, no. bad. This looses much of white's advantage. Much better was Rae1.
20...e5??? This is the deal breaker. Major blunder allowing Ne4 and a huge white advantage and should result in a win for white.
21. Ne4 Rc6 22. Nf6+ Rxf6 23. Qxf6 Rg8 24. Qxe5+ Ne6 25. Qb8+ Nc8 26. Rc1 Rg7 27. Rxc8+
I hope this is some help to you.
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1.e4 c6 2.d4 d5 3.e5 Bf5 4.c4
Of white's many options on move four, c4 is not only not very good, but it's the easiest one for white to go wrong "simply by playing reasonable moves". It has a little poison in it (and by no means is black winning), but in my experience I've nearly always been able to get a slightly better position for black after 4.c4. Let me explain the ideas in general behind the Caro-Kann Advance.
Black is playing against white's two main weaknesses: the oftentimes weak d4 pawn and the "bad" c1 bishop. Black's dream is to trade all minor pieces except for white's dark squared bishop and a black knight. Optimally the knight would plant itself on f5, with a much better position for black. Very often black plays pawn to h5 to secure the f5 outpost for the knight.
If white just plays "typical" moves, such as (in no particular order after 4.c3) Nc3, Bd3, Nf3, o-o, Be3, Rac1, Rfe1, then black will play a plan like this:
Black has to be very careful about making the c5 pawn break. In some of the typical white setups (basically the same as above, except white plays c3 instead of c4, then black will eventually play c5. But in the cases where white plays c4, or has some other developmental plan (like the Nc3/g4 tactical melee), I very often don't play c5 at all.
Here's another example:
1.e4 c6 2.d4 d5 3.e5 Bf5 4.f4 h5 5.c3 Ne7 6.Nf3 Bg4 7.Be2 Ne7 8.o-o Nd7 9.Na3 Nf5 10.Nc2 Be7 11.Ne3 Bxf3 12.Bxf3 g6 13.Nxf5 exf5
In this type of setup, black will likely not play c5 but instead will put the other knight on the e6 square.
I apologize in advance if the above moves don't make any sense at all. :-)
Nice post ozzie! I wrote it down. A couple questions, I'd like to hear your suggestion on:
A)
"2. Ne7, h5, Nf5, Be7"
What if white plays Bg5 after Ne7 to trade his bad bishop right away, usually the Ne7 knight will be pinned by Bg5 and the exchange looks unavoidable
B) "Here's another example:
1.e4 c6 2.d4 d5 3.e5 Bf5 4.f4 h5 5.c3 Ne7 6.Nf3 Bg4 7.Be2 Ne7 8.o-o Nd7 9.Na3 Nf5 10.Nc2 Be7 11.Ne3 Bxf3 12.Bxf3 g6 13.Nxf5 exf5
In this type of setup, black will likely not play c5 but instead will put the other knight on the e6 square."
Would it be of any benefit for White to play 7.Bd3 and now White can get his pawn to g4 with tempo (kicking the Black Bishop around). Blacks position looks fine though, like an advance French without the bad bishop.
C) setups against the Short system, which was popular in the 90's
D) setups against bayonette-type systems either with a direct 4.g4 or with 4.Nc3 (taking the e4 square from the Black's lightsquare bishop), 5.g4
I played this game in a tournament of 2nd rank in my town and I lost the game my rating in this tournament was 1754