Destroy the Caro-Kann with the von Hennig Gambit
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- Опубліковано 1 жов 2024
- I think I may have found my perfect antidote to the annoying Caro-Kann with the von Hennig gambit. Not only does it bear similarities to the Blackmar-Diemer (my stock response to the Scandinavian), but it also offers very good chances of f7 nastiness!
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i would not trust this over the board, you seem to be hoping they play bg5 which no strong player will play. the main lines are the main lines for a reason.
Interesting. When I run it by the Lichess player db, rapid 2500s on Lichess don't play Bg4, you're right. At 2200 level it's played 25% of the time. At 2000 level it's the #1 move played 38% of the time. As I'm going to be playing people around 1700-1800 on the Lichess scale, it should work for me... for now. Plenty of time to learn more heavy-duty lines if I get towards 2000.
Cool vid but you didnt go into the options for black here so i had to go into the engine and do some prep so id be prepared as a player who plays the caro more then any other opening as black, 1) E4 C6 2) D4 D5 3) Nc3 Dxe4 4) Bc4 - white puts the gambit on the table. Now the line i prepared is Bf5, not the best move for black but in the top 3 and definitely the most ambitious, since you protect your pawn, and get your light squared bishop out of the pawn chain for when they force you to play e3 threatening the "fried liver fork" you dont have to worry about blocking it in. Then after 5) F3 Nf3 holding onto your pawn with the knight without letting them develop the knight that gives you problems just yet. 6) FxE4 Nxe4 7) Nxe4 Bxe4 8) nf3 from white is forced or they lose their rook
And after that E6 is the best move from black blunting whites bishop and preventing tricks on that diagonal, to some extent. There are still tricks on that diagonal and ideas of sacking for white but since you dont give them the development advantage its not nearly as bad
Thanks for your input Gabe, much appreciated. Yes, it's probably fundamentally dubious against a very well prepared player, but my repertoire at the intermediate level is built on coming up against less well prepared who'll more likely play automatically against sidelines.
I do think the 6.g4 variation is better than fxe4. I've played 4 games from this position and won all 4 (av. rating of opponent 1790 approx.) 2 of the (OTB) games went like this: 6... Bg6 7.g5 Nd5 8.fxe Nxc3 9.bxc3 Bxe4 10.Nf3 e6 11.0-0 Bd6 12.Qe2 Bg6 13.Nh4 Nd7?? Can you spot the winning continuation? Of course, this is just 1 way the game could go but I think that B in practice will have some difficulties defending in the 'declined' variation and would do better to take the gambit pawn.
@@davidgeorge6818 Please could you provide the previous moves as I'm struggling to find that position in my study? Thanks.
@@ChessBootCamp They're written down in a comment on your "Warning: Nerd Alert" video. Btw, nice vid about the Soller gambit!
@@davidgeorge6818 Nice, cheers pal.
I'm not happy about this Ben.. My poor Caro
Ha ha, I dislike the Caro with a passion, particularly after my gruelling OTB game last week! :D
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Nice library Ben! Read any of those books? And, if so, which is your favorite?
I've read most of them. I have quite a library of marketing and branding books, which I no longer look at, they're from a past life. More recently I've got stuff on ecology, regenerative agriculture, food etc., as well as a few on chess (which I may review soon). But my favourite has to be "The Red Pill Revolution" cos I wrote it :-)
Excellent lecture on this gambit
Glad you liked it
I like it!!! I will use this gamit... Thank you 👍👍👍
No problem 👍
Good stuff Ben. Have you tried the hillbilly attack, Schaefer gambit variation. Many of these themes appear there. You could have some fun with it. Keep up the good work.
No, never really looked into the Hillbilly.
The Caro-Kann has always been one of the openings I dislike facing the most. This looks very promising! My style of play as well, not surprising as we're both Vienna players and around the same rating. Your videos are very insightful, and you're a good explainer. Cheers!
Happy to help mate. Good luck.
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You got it!!
Thanks for the name-check Ben! I actually got a chance to play the ""Oh no! My Queen!" 😀variation in the last round of the Warks Major (Intermediate) tournament in 1992(!) - the only time i actually won a tournament like that.
Wow, that's so cool.
This looks evil! 👍
Yeah!!
love you benny
Feeling's mutual :)
I would recommend looking into the panov botanic attack against the Caro
Ooh, yet another one to look into, great, thanks!!
@@ChessBootCamp the line i actually have had the most losses against playing the caro as black and the most wins with playing against the caro as white is the mainline exchange caro with bishop D3 and H3 before knight F3 where white doesn't let black develop their light squared bishop and essentially forces black into having a bad minor piece that he can't do anything with. Its a little slow and positional for white but its the most testing line I've come across. If they want to play a slow positional game, then let them play a slow positional game where theyre essentially playing down a minor piece 😈
@@gabeop9615 That's interesting mate, thanks for sharing. I'm going to stick with this line for now, as I dislike slow and positional games with a passion.
Can't wait to try this one! Thanks!
Have fun!
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Ah, that's a huge topic, and something that can only come with experience. You need to learn the patterns to look for. The best way to do that, in my view, is live training like Chess Boot Camp Live. I've done a lot of sessions on tactics, with hundreds of positions, all part of our library of recorded sessions (probably 100 hours now).