Karpov's pet line in the Caro-Kann · Training Game

The Karpov Caro-Kann is one of my favorite chess openings. It's strategically and positionally rich, it could get tactical quickly, and it leads to very instructive, imbalanced endgames.
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The Karpov variation is one of those openings that requires deep strategic understanding rather than learning tons of theoretical variations. It leads to imbalanced positions in which both sides have several weaknesses, and in which there's multiple plans to play for for both sides.
This game was very thematic for the opening. I faced a 2400 rated opponent who'd lost a tempo in the opening by playing the unnecessary h3, other than that, we'd both followed main line theory as well as the most thematic ideas.
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[@tomaszfindysz6846]

42:00 this sound should be the standard background for the chess games like this... It was so epic.

[@pedrofonseca4233]

49:50 in this position Ne6+, followed by sacrificing the Knight for a the f4 pawn is a draw! The h1 square is different color than the bishop.

[@elijaharsenault]

haven’t finished the video yet but this seems very instructive, sort of reminiscent of daniel naroditsky’s videos

[@shokane_e]

Well played

[@zeldaire7484]

This is my first time hearing of this variation. What an interesting game!

[@adesages]

very interesting game !

[@user-ot8bb3ng7o]

Great 👌 video

[@Grandcapi]

Good game.

[@bluefin.64]

Interesting that Stockfish says both your lone mistake and your lone blunder were overlooking ...a5. Engines don't understand that traditionally missed opportunities are not considered blunders. It's not like dropping material, and otherwise you had only 2 inaccuracies, so a well played game indeed.

[@AverageBishop-]

Where's you cat Boris?

[@Thematic2177]

Hey Stjepan, in the English language, if you don't know someone's gender, you can use the so-called singular "they", instead of saying "he or she")

[@DrakoLykoi]

These days "they" may mean something else. There is always White, Black or my opponent.

[@calebsutherland5221]

@@DrakoLykoionly if you didn’t understand what it meant originally

[@mcronrn]

@@DrakoLykoi what else might ‘they’ mean? Saying ‘they’ when the gender is unknown has been grammatically correct since the 1980s and almost certainly longer…

[@mcronrn]

(I went to school in the 1980s ☺️🤷🏻‍♂️)

[@jordylont1879]

I was fine with the sponsor integration during analysis, but during games? That sucks

[@tomaszfindysz6846]

I was not live video...

[@usemeasdislikebutton420]

You dont like someone you watch earn a living?

[@bluefin.64]

Maybe the sponsor requested earlier placement. The longer a video the more people quit watching.

[@jonathantunstall1392]

zeroth

[@mcronrn]

I had a physician colleague get so mad at me when I played ‘zeroth’ in Words w Friends - “that’s not a word!” 🤣👏🙏

[@jonathantunstall1392]

yooooooooooooooo

[@aluminiumknight4038]

French is better than carokann

[@KeepChessSimple]

Why?

[@boyanmihaylov3009]

Yes it is

[@romanvercier3556]

No way

[@agustinvolpe1920]

No top player plays the french

[@boyanmihaylov3009]

@@agustinvolpe1920 that doesn't mean caro-kann is better