Grandmaster Secrets: The Caro Kann Peter Wells
Publisher: Gambit Publications, LTD

Advance Variation: Sharp Lines and Black's Early Alternatives. Star players who enjoy using the Caro-Kann include Vishy Anand, Michael Adams and the legendary Anatoly Karpov. Grandmaster Secrets - The Caro-Kann Publisher: Gambit Publications | ISBN: 1904600611 | edition 2007 | DJVU | 175 pages | 13,5 mbChess Explained is a new series of books about chess openings. Grandmaster.Secrets.The.Caro.Kann.pdf. Now 4.Nf3 Bg4 is the main line and will transpose to Gu Xiaobing-Gunina. Advance Variation: Short System and Other Modern Treatments. Grandmaster Secrets: The Caro Kann. Grandmaster John van der Wiel wrote an insightful article on this line in SOS-6. I refer to this volume for his full explanation on the usefulness of 3 a6. Panov-Botvinnik Attack and 2.c4. Miscellaneous Systems for White. Let it suffice here, that Black plays this waiting move in order to develop his light- squared bishop outside the pawn chain (a pawn chain that (s)he will often try to maintain - as opposed to the main line of the Caro-Kann after 3 dxe4).