Anyone have any wins vs this system? I played against it once, but it ended in a draw. A master at our club rated 2345 played against it vs a 1748 player and it ended in a draw and this was the championship. You play the opponent twice and the loser gets knockout, so there was a lots of pressure! Very hard to crack the Caro-Khan I think.
Post your games on here but black has to have a rating of 1400 or over.
Originally posted by RahimK ....2345 played against it vs a 1748 player and it ended in a draw ....
this seems hard to believe ... i often beat 1748 players using the CK .... it must have been bizarre, a setup, or a fluke ... i am only 1700 myself, a 2345 player should find it child's play ...
i find the CK has a lot of deferred violence ... just waiting for white to waste an overconfident move or two - somewhere just afer the book moves are forgotten.
Originally posted by Chakan actually idiot ... it's Genghis Khan or Ghengis Khan.
depends on where you live. here it's 'tsingis-kaani'. in mongolia it's Чингис Хаан, Jenghis Khan, Jinghis Khan, Chinghiz Khan, Jinghiz Khan, Chinggis Khan, Changaiz Khan to give a few variations. the dude's name was actually 'temüjin' (with the same amount of variations)...
sorry 'bout the OT. it's just that the same controversy arises often with different spellings of caro-kann... or nimzowitsch and others...
I was White in this game on another correspondence site a few years ago. Black's inexplicable 25th move aside, the final combination is straightforward but kind of pretty.
Originally posted by Natural Science Ahem. Getting back to the topic at hand....
I was White in this game on another correspondence site a few years ago. Black's inexplicable 25th move aside, the final combination is straightforward but kind of pretty.
I see in both the games which were posted black castled kingside. I think its a bit easier for white if they do that especially in the Bf5 line when white plays h4,h5 but if they 0-0-0 then it looks harder to crack.
The games against the master, Black got lucky and had a passed pawn which had to be protected. He also castled 0-0-0.
White mostly castles 0-0-0 and if black castles there too then you have to be very careful about launching a pawn storm, so it is that much more harder against 0-0-0.
I've never played it myself but at club we have a class C (he doesn't play in tournaments and is underrated)player who plays nothing but the caro and the slav. A class A player played this against him with success
1. e4 c6
2. d4 d5
3. e5 ? (Bf4 or Nf6)
4. e6
Sacraficing a pawn for an attack on the light squares. To be honest, I think there were a few more moves before the gambit but it was a very interesting game to watch. Is anyone else familiar with this theme or was the game just flawed?
Wins vs Caro-Khan
24 Jan '06 03:26
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