In the caro cant
- white has a larger center with more/quicker development
- white has a space advantage
- white can easily hold an advantage the whole game
- black is usually left passive
- blacks light squared bishop is typically a liability and will be kicked around the whole opening/middlegame
- the best black can play for is a draw
white can also easily attack black without having to risk much
(I'm responding to this and to anyone and any other posts outlining the negatives of the Caro)
For one, tell me those positions are easier to play for white honestly.
For two, the 1600+ lichess database for blitz and longer has white at 47% win rate and black with 48%. Practically, the Caro is on par or at least very, very similar in level to the Sicilian
dont give inferior lines for white
you guys are dumb smh this is why you actually understand the line
dxc5 is bad because of e6 Be3 Nd7
however c3 is the mainline and its kind of interesting
caro in general is hard to play for a win though white is often pressing in a lot of lines
If you wouldn’t mind clarifying, who exactly are you calling dumb in this scenario? I can’t tell.
Actually, many of your comments are vague or incorrect . Who is dxc5 bad for? Black, presumably, but then you go on to argue that c3 is the mainline and is interesting. No it is not, first of all, it’s a distant third most common move and second, White scores horribly in it.
sampson system collapses in e4 tho
that’s the gothammess system