Learn the Caro-Kann the easy way by following the highlighted variations and assimilating the overall ideas of the variation. Play through nearly 50 instructive games from beginning to end to develop your holistic understanding of the Caro-Kann into the middlegame and the endgame. Develop your feeling of how to play with the c6-pawn, the queenside knight and queenside bishop to dynamise and activate the Caro-Kann Defence to a venomous Caro-Kann attack. In this highly instructive book on one of the most popular openings today, Thomas Engqvist introduces you to what he believes are the most important variations of the Caro-Kann Defence. The main variations in the first four chapters are built on the principle of developing the queenside bishop outside the pawn chain in combination with activation of the c6-pawn and â¦Nc6 while in the four last chapters Black adapts to White's less common variations. The variations are timeless and up to date as well as thoroughly computer-checked. They will enable you to quickly obtain a life-long opening repertoire against 1 e4 by playing through the variations in eight sequentially arranged chapters. Swedish International Master Thomas Engqvist has 45 years' experience as a chess coach, teacher, writer and player.
He has successfully worked with players at world championship level in both junior and correspondence chess. This is his fifth book for Batsford Chess.