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Winning Quickly at Chess: Catastrophes & Tactics in the Chess

Opening – Volume 9:

Caro-Kann & French

Chess Tactics, Brilliancies & Blunders in the

Chess Opening

by Carsten Hansen

Winning Quickly at Chess: Catastrophes & Tactics in the Chess

Opening – Volume 9: Caro-Kann & French

This book or any portion thereof may not be reproduced or used in any manner whatsoever

without the express written permission of the publisher except for the use of brief quotations in a

book review.

Printed in the United States of America

First Printing, 2017

ISBN (print edition): 978-197315-716-8

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CONTENTS

Introduction

1) French Defense - Minor Variations

2) French Defense - Advance Variation

3) French Defense - Tarrasch Variation: 3.Nd2

4) French Defense - Various 3.Nc3 Variations

5) French Defense - Winawer Variation: 3.Nc3 Bb4

6) Caro-Kann Defense - Main Lines: 3.Nc3 dxe4 4.Nxe4

7) Caro-Kann Defense - Panov Attack

8) Caro-Kann Defense - Advance Variation

9) Caro-Kann Defense - Minor Lines

INTRODUCTION

Thanks for picking up this book. I sincerely hope you will enjoy reading the book as much as

I have writing it.

We all dream of winning our games fast, using excellent opening preparation, flashy tactics

and then mate our opponents. However, it rarely goes like that. Usually, the games average

around 40 moves, contain enough blunders on both sides to have both you and your opponent

horrified after the game. However, what I have found is that many games, even amongst the

strongest players, contain errors and mistakes, some quite significant ones, as soon as the players

depart the theory that is known to them.

This book, the seventh in a series of eight, aim to take a look at some of those games, but

only the ones that are of 15 moves or shorter. Of course, for a game to end within 15 moves, one

of the players has to have made one or more serious mistakes. I have left out games where a

piece is threatened and the player forgot to move it, touched the wrong piece or such things.

However, I have included games that include typical mistakes, even if they seem banal.

As for the games, they are typically between players with a rating of at least 2350 and often

well more than that, although I have made some exceptions when I found a game of particular

interest or value; you will find several games played by players rated above 2600 in this book.

Furthermore, I have included some older games, but where the players would most certainly

have been rated above 2350 if rating had existed at that time.

The opening variations covered in this volume are:

French Defense - Minor Variations

French Defense - Advance Variation

French Defense - Tarrasch Variation: 3.Nd2

French Defense - Various 3.Nc3 Variations

French Defense - Winawer Variation: 3.Nc3 Bb4

Caro-Kann Defense - Main Lines: 3.Nc3 dxe4 4.Nxe4

Caro-Kann Defense - Panov Attack

Caro-Kann Defense - Advance Variation

Caro-Kann Defense - Minor Lines

In opening encyclopedia terms, these openings have the Chess Informant Opening code of

B10 through B19 and C00 through C19. There is a total of 1xx main games, but with many more

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