Almost no one plays this Caro-Kann Variation · Training Game
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 6 ก.พ. 2025
- A Caro-Kann variation that very few people play. For a reason! It's a very sharp and complicated way to fight the Tal Caro-Kann, and it leads to mad positions very hard for humans to understand.
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The Tal has always been the arch-nemesis to my Caro-Kann. I really hate the positions I get when I play h5 and go for the main lines. White always seems to have a strategic edge and an easier time attacking. So I chose to play h6 instead in this game! It's a wild variation in which anything can happen, and one mistake means absolute disaster.
1. e4 c6 2. d4 d5 3. e5 Bf5 4. h4 { B12 Caro-Kann Defense: Advance Variation, Tal Variation } h6 5. g4 Be4 6. f3 Bh7 7. e6 Qd6 8. exf7+ Kxf7 9. f4 Nf6 10. Bh3 e6 11. Nf3 Nbd7 12. Ne5+ Kg8 13. g5 Be4 14. Rh2 Ne8 15. Nc3 Bf5 16. Bxf5 exf5 17. Qe2 Nc7 18. Bd2 Re8 19. O-O-O c5 20. dxc5 Nxc5 21. Qh5 Qe6 22. Ne2 hxg5 23. Qxh8+ Kxh8 24. hxg5+ Kg8 25. Rdh1 Qxe5 26. g6
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What I've come to realize after all my time studying openings is that, if you can't play them from both sides, you don't understand the opening well enough. The best thing you can do to better understand openings is play the other side, that way you know what is uncomfortable, what you should be afraid of and what you shouldn't. Also the best way to us the engine to study openings is to play the other side, not your own. That way you learn engine responses to human moves, and not human responses to engine moves.
Your opponent’s vision after 22…hxg5 was amazing. Wouldn’t be surprised if this was an anonymous titled player
Holy heck this channel and community is amazing! The generosity and the genuine love for the game is awesome to see. Thank you to the anonymous patron, giving us much more instructive games❤
Isn't there Lichess feature that announces the moves? That could be helpful for your viewers who only listen. Just found this on the Lichess forum:
"If you're on a browser it's pretty simple. Click on your username in the top right corner. Select the sound option from the drop-down menu. Click on speech. It may take a second or two, but when it is ready it will announce something to the extent of "Speech synthesis is ready" and begin reading out moves as they're played or entered on an analysis board."
I am beyond overjoyed to hear you doing the player’s thematic openings! I am thrilled to see those videos and I hope you will begin to enjoy the KID for one. I would also love to see
-Capablanca’s QGD/QID (how he converts from White and Black positionally),
-possibly Karpov’s/Carlsen’s Ruy Lopez (I would love to get a greater appreciation of how the best convert the Spanish),
-and of course Fischer’s Najdorf!
Glad to see you can make a tournament in France as well. Excited to see those games - lots of good news for us viewers today! On a trip in US, nice to spend the plane trip watching one of these :)
I love the idea of announcing your moves. I am trying to start learning to play blindfolded so it could be fun. I'm not sure I could keep up yet especially in a complicated position like this but it would be fun to practice
i have played this in National Junior 2023. . my opponent played 10.Nf3 instead of Bh3. After that i played Nxg4 and he responded with Ne5+. After 17 moves of theory , we agreed to a draw. but..... i looked at his game before playing .. i saw on database that he plays h4 . so i searched on youtube and found your video !!!! i have never played h6 against h4 and i put my king on f7 for the first time lol. Credit to my opponent for knowing so deep
I felt like I was drowning watching this video. There are so many nuances in the position and every move from your opponent had such insane pressure.
There are browser extensions that read out loud TH-cam subtitles. And I would imagine that there is a way to have subtitles with the notations only, and users can use a browser extension to have them read aloud.
This way you could keep focusing on playing instead of remembering to announce the moves, and the risk of you forgetting some moves is greatly reduced. This could even work for older games, if some people in the community feel like helping out with this. I would certainly help to add notation to older videos I'm rewatching for example, I just need to figure out how to do it.
One of the worst feelings is seeing that you're going to be mated before your opponent actually moves. Good post-game analysis to see where it went wrong.
If announcing the moves becomes too tough for those hard of vision, you can also enable the lichess move to speech so you only have to worry about saying your calculations out loud and that it's easier to differentiate the game notation (artificial voice) and your analysis (your voice) 👌
I didn't even know this exists. That seems like a great solution. I think it's also easier to follow if the voice announcing the moves is not Stepjan's, so when he speaks about moves it's clear that he is thinking out loud.
Bedankt
Thank you very much!
Thanks for saying the moves outloud!
This variation is actually featured in a classical game between a GM and Levy Rozman quite a while ago ago. Bh3 is a sideline.
I love King's Indian opening, although now I'm scared because I learned the theory of it from your channel 😅
Against advance variations of CK c5 for black should be always a first thought to liberate black’s position.
28:48 You forgot to tell that for the blind buddy of ours, and kinda forgot from that point onwards.
Plus I think Rxe5 was a good move at that point? Not sure
Can you please start nimzo larsen attack opening series? I want to learn it but no one explains opening like you, so i would really appreciate it if you made series about that opening. 🙏
1.b3 is a bad opening :/
Maybe it works with c4 transposing into a sicilian reversed, but generally, 1.b3 is very questionable
Brilliant game, very instructive
I got a feeling that you are always calculating during the whole game, which demands energy. I think it's important to play by concepts and plans, instead of getting yourself calculating every time your opponent makes a move
Against the h4 variation, i suggest you to take a look at the Shirov vs Anand - XXIV Magistral de Ajedrez Ciudad de Leon (2011) (rapid)
So thanks for this content !
Hello stepjan! Can you please do a theory video about the four knights sicilian or the classical variation of the Sicilian?
White player is a Canadian master who has authored many chessable books including two on tactics.
Hi, Your Opponent plays the first 14 Move same as Stockfisch 16 , is that a coicidence ? lg.heinz
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Interesting variation...
Why not 18 ... h5 followed by g6, developing the bishop to g7, the king to h7, and bringing out the h rook? EDIT: Never mind, I guess you covered this in the analysis. Sorry.
“I’m sick of that knight.” - 😂
What's your suggestion for white against slav structure?
in both your losses didn't you fall for the bait and allow your queen to be pulled away into nowhereland? Just a thought
I saw 4.....Qa5 line in a course against Tal variation
The Tal variation is ever Caro player's nightmare
Is 3...Bf5 really easier than 3...c5? Bf5 seems to have more theory/variations.
3.c5 is easier and also has a lot of play
I guess maybe this Tal variation can work better against weak opponents. Strong oponnents can bury you to death, specually with all the tactics and calculation
It's crazy that white doesn't move any pieces until move 10 in this variation
I'm gonna offer up that your personal bias for calculation (there has to be a clear way forward) interferes with an objective assessment of the position. There were a few moments I noticed where your variations weren't accurate or objectively true b/c of this. An example is when the bishop was played to e4. It wasn't the only move. hxg was probably a better move with the idea of Bf5 in the event of hxg5 from White. The reason it is better is b/c the knight had e4 still and wouldn't get kicked. It's tactical, but also objectively true. Let your pieces trump your calculation b/c players miss moves when they calculate. They don't miss that their knights are unhappy on e8. It took time to get that knight back to doing something and that wasn't needed, nor wanted. :)
Nepo and his petroff series please
This variation is one of the reasons I moved to the Bronstein with 4...c5, too crazy for Black while White as way simpler choices. It seemed to me that 4...Bf5 is too theory dense, as well as being well known by players playing white. My score with Black in the advance Caro: 4...Bf5= 17 games, 59% White, 41% Black (0 draws). 4...c5= 156 games, 43% White, 8% draws, 49% Black. For reference, I'm around 2100 on Lichess. It was a nice game, though. Keep it up!
i feel that going h6 is exactly what the white players want you to do when they play h4
I play this variation every game. I don't know who you referring to.
I thought he was gonna play f4 in caro
he played beyond precise, I analyzed this game and your opponent plays is nearly stockfish level, your is decent like 2400-2550 but how can you rivalise when opponent playes ~2900 chess
It was a short game and they made multiple inaccuracies. This game is not suspicious for a 2500
@@sleepdarti2978 I dont say it is suspicious I only think that it is not deserved lose
@@kontobiol3020 ah I see
h6 was wrong from the first place, in this varation you always play h5
What a boring and slow Caro-Kann
You are lucky this isn't reddit, you would have downvoted to oblivion. "Smarty pants"
@@3scream1kill76 I was being sarcastic
@@Filipios35376 how is that sarcasm ?
you should have said it was really good and fast game
Kovacevic's French Defense. Suggestion
his queen sacrifice is brilliant it shocked me 😂
can you try the Turkish coffee and give us your opinion about it 🤍