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 |
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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. |