Author: J.Dufek
Date: 11:20:08 05/19/04
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Maybe one from worsest publication from Chess Informant... Links from "home page B12" not functional, quality of material is questionable ... None own analysis by autor, material only from ChessInformator publication (with few other games from various sources...) On May 19, 2004 at 14:02:28, José Antônio Fabiano Mendes wrote: > Please see ==> http://www.chesscafe.com/informant/informant.htm > >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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