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Salient: Victoria University Students' Newspaper. Vol. 24, No. 7. 1961.
Caro-Kann Defence
Caro-Kann Defence
| White A. R. Barnett |
Black E G. A. Frost |
|---|---|
| 1 P-K4 | P-QB3 |
| 2 P-Q4 | P-Q4 |
| 3 N-QB3 | P-K3 |
| A weak move; shutting in the Queen's Bishop. Better, and usual, is 3 ... P x P. | |
| 4 N-B3 | B-N5 |
| 5 P-KS | N-K2 |
| 6 B-Q3 | N-Q2 |
| The opening is now really a French Defence, with the important difference that Black has played ... P - QB3, which means that he has to waste a move playing P - QB4, normally a neceasary move in the French. | |
| 7 0-0 | P-QR3 |
| So as to play ... P - QB4 without al- lowinq N - QNS. P - QR3, N - Q6ch. and N - KNS, with a strong attack for White. | |
| 8 N-K2 | N-KN3 |
| 9 N-B4 | Q-K2 |
| 10 P-B3 | B-.R4 |
| 11 P-QN4 | B-B2 |
| 12 R-Kl | P-N3 |
| 13 N-R5 | P-B3? |
| 13 ... O - O was better, though White would still retain the better position. | |
| 14 PxP | PxP? |
| Better again was 14 ... N x P, although White then gets a strong attack by 15 N - N5; but the move played meets with a surprise reply. | |
| 15 RxPf | QxR |
| 16 N-N7 ch | K-.B2 |
| 17 NxQ | KxN |
| 18 N-R4! | NxN |
| 19 Q-N4 ch | P-B4 |
| 20 QxN | N-B3 |
| 21 B-KN5 | B-Ql |
| Black, with his material deficit and backward development, is. of course, quite lost. | |
| 22 R-Kl ch | K-B2 |
| 23 R-K5 | R-R2 |
| 24 P-B3 | |
| So that, after Black's ... R - K2, he can play R x B without being mated by ... R - K8. | |
| 24 —— | P-R3 |
| 25 Bxn | BxB |
| 26 Q-R5 ch | K-N2 |
| 27 R-K8! | RxR |
| 28 QxR | R-B2 |
| 29 P-N4 | |
| The quickest method of winning: Black must lose more material. | |
| 29 —— | B-N4 |
| 30 Q-'Kd ch | Resigns. |
| A well-played game by tne winner. | |