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A popular and sound but unambitious semi-open King's Pawn defence. It avoids the drawback of the French - the shutting in of the QB - but has other drawbacks and tends to favour White. First studied in 1886 by Horatio Caro and Marcus Kann. |
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| Black replies ..P-QB3 (move 1b, left) to support a ..P-Q4 advance where, after giving up the centre by removing White's king's pawn, Black has some compensating advantages. | ||
| Apart from the main (Classical) opening line below, the guide also includes the Two Knights Variation and the Exchange Variation (leading to the Panov and Panov-Botvinnik Attacks). | ||
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