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Caro-Kann: Bronstein-Larsen Variation

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tlay80

Are there any good books or courses on the Bronstein-Larsen Variation of the Caro-Kann, from Black's perspective? My daughter has just gotten interested in playing this line and asked for a book on it. I see a Silman book from 1989. Is there anythig more recent? (If not, is the Silman at least in algebraic notation? I *think* that by 1989, most books were, but my sense of time is getting hazy...)

lostpawn247

All of the recent Caro Kann books coverage is devoted to the Classical or Tartakower (exf6) variations. Nigel Davies does have a Chessbase Fritz Trainer from 2016 on the 4...Nf6 Caro Kann that covers the Tartakower and Bronstein-Larsen. I don't know of any Chessable courses that might cover it.

tlay80

Thanks. It’s definitely out of fashion, so I’m not surprised. Still, I’d bet that at the club level it’s perfectly fine.

WCPetrosian

I found an image inside Silman's book on taking back with the ....g pawn and the ...e pawn in the Caro Kann. In the image it's in algebraic.

Jenium

Is that the line where Black takes gxf?

WCPetrosian

Yes. I'll type out the moves so as to clarify for all readers of this thread. It goes 1 e4 c6 2 d4 d5 3 Nc3 (or 3 Nd2) dxe4 4 Nxe4 Nf6 5 Nxf6+. Now 5...gxf6 is the Bronstein-Larsen variation, 5...exf6 is the Tartakower variation.

tlay80
Jenium wrote:

Is that the line where Black takes gxf?

Yup, that's the one. I meant to give the line and forgot.

And thanks, Petrosian.