I have been playing Caro-Kann for 17 years and it suits my style very well. Despite the fact that there are some subtleties in some specific variations that requires proper understanding and ability to handle the position with high accuracy, once you learn and master it, you can feel so much confident even against higher rated opponents. Thanks a lot for your inspiring content and guidance Dr. Can, keep up the good work 🙏🏻💪🏻

@Dr.CansClinic

11 ай бұрын

Thank you so much for this insight from your own practice. Indeed, it involves deep learning of those typical structures, but once you do it, it can serve you greatly for the rest of your chess career! :)

Caro-kann player here. I love it because it's simple and once you get used to it, it's alot of fun

@Dr.CansClinic

11 ай бұрын

Thanks a lot Cem!

Caro kann is my favorite opening and this is the best breakdown of the spirit of the opening I’ve ever heard

@Dr.CansClinic

11 ай бұрын

Thank you so much for your kind comment.

Caro-Kann is great for all!

Nice video idea. I've taken up the French so I get a lot of these positions, and absolutely love them. It also occurs to me seeing this, one of your quiz positions from another video that I didn't understand must have come from a classical Caro.

@Dr.CansClinic

11 ай бұрын

Thanks for sharing! They are sister systems indeed!

What I really liked about this video is it gave me a better idea of how to relate to an opening based on middle and endgames that make sense to me. I don't think I'm at the place where I know what's best for me and so I'm really looking forward to more in this series. Subscribed and thanks!

@Dr.CansClinic

9 ай бұрын

Thank you so much for your kind feedback. I will continue this series, stay tuned!

I love the Caro-Kann, and when I played the Sicilian it I loved it too. At my level you get tactical middlegames no matter what you play, although I am talking about speed chess. One opening that always looked too alien to consider is the Grunfeld, but now my philosophy is to play everything and just learn learn learn. Soon I'll be giving up the Caro-Kann for 1...e5, and the London for 1.e4. I haven't played the open games since I was a beginner, and there is so much to learn from them.

Very nice caro can defence game explanation.

@Dr.CansClinic

4 ай бұрын

Thank you! 🙏

lets goooo! i am a caro-kann player it is my strongest and sharpest weapon i adopted my friend with it aha i have been playing 3 months but im obsessed and luv chess, i am next ready to make 800 elo rapid, i am 1400 classical, i know all the sidelines, all the old main lines and the new also, panov, tartekower, i really like Bronstein larsen variation, i have the best score with the advanced i play the early c5 and usually win the game 63% is my win rate, Caro is a Gangster opening in my opinion. great vid Sensei Can. thankyou

@Dr.CansClinic

10 ай бұрын

Thank you so much for your comment! It is a great opening for all levels indeed! Let's go!

Thanks fir this lesson. I Think it may suit me so will study this as I prefer end games.

@Dr.CansClinic

6 ай бұрын

That is great to hear! Hope it will serve you well.

Thanks so much. Please cover the Italian opening

@Dr.CansClinic

11 ай бұрын

Thanks! Will surely put it in my list.

Caro Kann player here, I switch from French to CaroKann defense as there is some overlaps and easier to play without dealing with the bad bishop. As beginner, it's hard to find my style but I can tell that CaroKann seems not to require tremendous theory knowledge at my level. The general ideas and plans you described here is very helpful to improve my games, really like this series as well! Thank you Doc!

@Dr.CansClinic

11 ай бұрын

Thank you so much for bringing this insight from your own practice Pierre!

Next opening video idea 💡 a black opening for more aggressive players

@Dr.CansClinic

10 ай бұрын

Najdorf is on the way! :)

The Caro-Kann can with Dr. Can!

It's a really good defence. I use it in the tournaments. I like it.

@Dr.CansClinic

4 ай бұрын

Very solid and sound indeed.

Really nice video 👌 I’m also a Caro Kann Player and you’ve put everything important here in a very compact video 😃 Unfortunately there is no CK for White haha but would love to see the Queens Gambit ✌️ Is there any hidden resource to find this middle game plans or are master games the one and only?

@Dr.CansClinic

11 ай бұрын

Glad it was helpful! Recently, Chessable opening courses also give those typical middlegame plans but they are still rare. Chess structures by Rios is a good book for this purpose, but it may not be suitable for beginners.

4 29 portion, you were luck to bring the light bishop back. For most push the epawn thus leaving the light bishop un able to come and pressure the queen

@Dr.CansClinic

5 ай бұрын

I did not fully get your point. Can you please elaborate a little?

The caro suits me for sure! Thanks for the excellent content Can!

@Dr.CansClinic

11 ай бұрын

Thank you so much!

Great video lesson! To be honest, I didn't like the opening from the start! But I choose Caro-Kann anyway because it's feeling uncomfortable for a reason, right? By playing this 'awful opening' I felt I would improve something that's a weakness in my games. I think it might be a good idea to play an 'uncomfortable opening' for at least half a year or something, depending on how much time you have to study and play or course. What are your thoughts on this subject, Can? I found out, for this opening to work you really need to know how to develop the pieces, and in the right order, knowing why. (The kingside Knight before the Bishop. That Knight jumping to e7 first, it looked strange to me back then). If I don't do this correctly, I get caught up by my own pieces easily. finally I get the hang of it after months and months! Stil not there yet. But it helps me a lot to connect the dots; opening principles, strategies, tactics. I heard people saying Caro-Kann is a dry boring opening. (I disagree.) Don't laugh: what's new to me is what you said about the intention of having a strong end game by playing the Caro-Kann. I didn't think of that as I don't have strong and harmonious play anyway. I make silly mistakes in the opening and middle game. These pawn structure advantages are vanished easily. So I don't have much of a leg up in the end game by the Caro-Kann (but I do have some strong end game play). Care-Kann is now my favorite opening!

@Dr.CansClinic

18 күн бұрын

Thanks for the feedback on the Caro, Mark! I also like it quite a lot :) I agree we should try out openings that speaks to our weaknesses and gives us an opportunity to take those positions that we don't like to play too much. At least for a period. This is for growth and pushing our comfort zones. That is why I took the Grunfeld for half a year. The results were not impressive and I lost around 50 ELO with it, but I still believe it was worth it. I was forced to play dynamically and give positional concessions - which I normally don't like to give.

I am a beginner and still learning, but I deliberately learned C-K because at the time I had no real understanding about what positional thinking was, pawn structures, breaks, etc. and playing C-K gave me some practical experience. I think I prefer to be a tactical player (currently learning KiD and accelerated dragon) but the lessons from C-K were invaluable. (also, what do you do against the Tal variation?)

@Dr.CansClinic

11 ай бұрын

Thank you for your insights! CK can suit beginners indeed. I may do a future video about the Tal variation, it is too little space to give all the ideas :)

Thanks for this video. I play the scotch gambit and the caro kann and the two styles are so different. Scotch gambit has so much attacking oressure while caro feels like grinding out a pawn advantage. I think I struggle in getting to these endgames. What would be a more active black defense to pair with my scotch gambit? Either that or maybe I start pairing the London with the caro…

@Dr.CansClinic

11 ай бұрын

Thanks for sharing this! I would say it depends on several factors, such as your chess style and how much time you have for studying openings. If you enjoy dynamic positions involving pawn sacrifices, then you can switch Caro to Sicilian :) London is a solid choice and the pawn structure resembles the Caro, so I can't have much complaints there either.

@LatteEsportsLeague

11 ай бұрын

@@Dr.CansClinic thanks for the reply! I have played chess for about 10 months and I’m sure I put way too much focus on opening study and not enough on other aspects, so I think I’d be open to picking up a new response to e4 as black. That said, I’ve always strayed away from the Sicilian as there are so many variations and I’ve been told it’s so theory heavy. Personally, even though I suck at it, I would love to improve as a caro kann player because squeezing out a win by having a +1 advantage on the board seems like “good chess”. I’m just 100% sure that in games I lose I have that advantage and squander the position at some point.

You might say something about what the white strategy should be when faced with the Caro-Kann. You hint at it.

@Dr.CansClinic

11 ай бұрын

That is an idea for a future video, thanks for this feedback.

In this series can you briefly mention to what degree you can force your preferred opening or how you transpose to another likely opening?

@Dr.CansClinic

11 ай бұрын

Great idea, thanks!

Sicilian is probably better, but I'm not a titled player and can't remember all the lines of all the Sicilian variations. Eventually, I'll get there. For now, Caro.

@Dr.CansClinic

11 ай бұрын

Well said! Caro also served me for a long time initially before I switched to Najdorf.

Can you do one for the Queens Gambit? PS. the caro is my favorite

@Dr.CansClinic

6 ай бұрын

Thanks for the feedback, I will consider it!

What do you think is White's best try against the Caro Kann at the above 2000 FIDE level?

@Dr.CansClinic

11 ай бұрын

Panov is interesting. Also Short variation is good I think.

@Dr.CansClinic

11 ай бұрын

Exchange variation with Bd3 is also good.

french?

@Dr.CansClinic

11 ай бұрын

Thanks, I will take a note of it.

The Caro-Kann can with Dr. Can!

@Dr.CansClinic

11 ай бұрын

My name + surname initials make CK, just like Caro-Kann. What a coincidence!

@DrakoLykoi

11 ай бұрын

@@Dr.CansClinic CK...Nice!

@user-ot8bb3ng7o

11 ай бұрын

❤❤❤❤ love this opening so much 🎉 what I like about the opening,is that it conserves energy as opposed to sicialian that's sooo demanding, I was attacking player an change to Caro Kann to try to understand positional ideas thank for covering this opening 🙏🙏

@baldwintab8234

10 ай бұрын

best video on CK. really helped me to understand

@Dr.CansClinic

10 ай бұрын

Thank you so much for your kind comment. I am really happy that the video helped you!@@baldwintab8234