Originally posted by robbie carrobieI used to play the Caro a lot, its usually wimpy but its really hard to give white any nice play and although theyre completely fine young white players would get restless.
i know, hangs his head in shame, i heard that Anand played the Slav, so cause hes my hero i took up the Slav also, but its terrible! Its worse than the Caro Khan, and the French defence all rolled into one! ! My friend i must confess, i have only been a true Gambiteer only very recently! before that i played 1..g6, 2...Bg7, 3...c5 to everything that white played!
what is this legendary Grunoni that you speak of?
anyways for my 1.d4 defense I split it down two paths depending on the 3rd move from white.
1.d4 Nf6 2.c4 g6 3.Nc3.. now I play the grunfeld.
1.d4 Nf6 2.c4 g6 3.Nf3.. now I play the modern benoni.
seems to work well.
