Two Norwegian opening experts provide a set of options that take full advantage of this flexibility. In the main line, you are given a choice between the 4...Bf5 and the 5...exf6 systems – but both strictly in their modern dynamic forms! In the latter, Hansen is a world-leading authority, with a wealth of experience to explain the typical mistakes White makes when facing this deceptively tricky line. By studying his material, you will be well ahead of the game in this rapidly-evolving system. For instance, the critical improvements over the Duda-Carlsen game in 2020 were already in Hansen’s files from two years earlier.
The other recommended systems for Black are also aggressive and very much the ‘21st-century Caro-Kann’. It’s 3...c5 against the Advance, in which Hansen is also an outstanding specialist. The Panov Attack is answered with ...g6 lines – strategically ideal, and nowadays backed up by amazing modern computer analysis. Against the Two Knights, we are offered an ...exf6 option as well as the ...Bg4 approach. The repertoire is completed with good sensible recommendations against almost every other conceivable move White can throw at the Caro-Kann. This extremely up-to-date book has an innovative structure, with ‘lessons’, model games and theory ‘magnifiers’.
Sverre Johnsen is a chess analyst, researcher, organizer, trainer and writer from Norway. He is co-author of Win with the London System and Win with the Stonewall Dutch, two of the best-selling openings books of recent years.
Grandmaster Torbjørn Ringdal Hansen is also from Norway. He is one of the founders of the chess retail business Sjakkhuset and works full-time as a chess trainer. He was the first coach of Magnus Carlsen (in 1999) and has worked with three other players who went on to become grandmasters.
SPIS TREŚCI
004 Symbols, Conventions and Bibliography
005 Preface by Sverre
007 Introduction
015 1) Classical: Korchnoi Variation
015 Lesson 1: Introduction
026 Lesson 2: Forgacs’s 6 Bc4
030 Lesson 3: Introduction to the Main Line
039 Lesson 4: Introduction to the Hansen Variation
051 Lesson 5: Hansen Variation: Lines with 0-0-0
064 2) Classical: Capablanca Variation
064 Lesson 6: Rare Fifth Moves
067 Lesson 7: Rare Sixth Moves
078 Lesson 8: Rare Seventh Moves
085 Lesson 9: Bareev Introduction and Campora Hybrid 8 h5
096 Lesson 10: Introduction to the Bareev Main Line
103 Lesson 11: Bareev Main Line: Menchik’s Line
110 Lesson 12: Bareev Main Line: 11...Ngf6
121 3) Advance Variation
121 Lesson 13: Arkell/Khenkin Introduction
130 Lesson 14: Arkell/Khenkin 4 dxc5 e6 Introduction and 5 Nf3
136 Lesson 15: Arkell/Khenkin 5 Íe3 and Rare 5th Moves
140 Lesson 16: Arkell/Khenkin Introduction to 5 a3
146 Lesson 17: Arkell/Khenkin Main Battleground
151 Lesson 18: Experimental Line: Johnsen Variation (3...Qc7)
158 4) Exchange Variation and Panov Attack
158 Lesson 19: Exchange: Introduction to the Carls Variation
164 Lesson 20: Classical Exchange Main Line 6 Ne2
167 Lesson 21: Panov Attack: Introduction and 5 Nf3 g6
174 Lesson 22: Panov Attack Euwe System: 6 cxd5 and Other Moves
183 Lesson 23: Panov Attack Euwe System: 6 Qb3
188 Lesson 24: Panov Attack: Miles’s 4...dxc4
194 5) Early Deviations
194 Lesson 25: Maroczy’s 3 f3 and Rare Third Moves
199 Lesson 26: 2 Nc3 and Introduction to the Two Knights
206 Lesson 27: Two Knights Main Line: 3...Bg4
216 Lesson 28: Steiner Variation (2 c4)
227 Lesson 29: King’s Indian Attack
232 Lesson 30: Rare Second Moves
237 Index of Variations
