Author: José Antônio Fabiano Mendes
Date: 11:02:28 05/19/04
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B12: Caro-Kann Defense, The Advance Variation
Sasa Velickovic
Chess Informant Editor
The Chess Informant Editorial Board has decided to do an encore, after a gap of
ten years from Seirawan’s outstanding work on the first edition of the B12
Monograph. The new CD offers detailed up-to-date coverage of the Advance
Variation of the Caro-Kann without unnecessary overlaps with the previous
edition.
The instructive examples given in the “Test Your Skills” section of the
monograph are given in addition to the material presented in the ECO tables and
the complementary reference databases. The 99 instructive positions are by no
means exhaustive or all-encompassing, as they mainly focus on the typical
patterns from top level practice, without any intended categorization.
Rather than having a calming effect on the already unbalanced positions, most of
the examples seem to favor moves which put out the fire with gasoline.
Therefore, the strategic maxim of the Advance Variation of the Caro-Kann Defense
could probably be described as – any waiting strategy can hardly be recommended.
However, that does not rule out positional resources since the intermingling of
subtle moves is quite typical of modern combinative play.
Given enough time, it is quite likely that an entirely new monograph would be
necessary just to accommodate all the fresh ideas and re-evaluations, as well as
the inadequacies in current analyses. All things considered, another purpose of
the instructive examples section might be to offer guidelines that could serve
as a basis for the readers’ further independent research.
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