Essent 2004 saw Carlsen as White losing badly to this line: 1.e4 c6 2.d4 d5 3.Nc3 dxe4 4.Nxe4 Bf5 5.Ng3 Bg6 6.h4 h6 7.Nf3 Nd7 8.h5 Bh7 9.Bd3 Bxd3 10.Qxd3 Ngf6 11.Bf4 e6 12.0-0-0 Nd5 13.Bd2 Nb4 14. Qb3
It looks like an interesting, even attacking ???
, try for Black. What do the Caro experts here think? Gallagher in his book says White can establish a slight edge with both 14. Qb3 and 14. Bxb4. But I doubt this, the first move received a drubbing in the carlsen game (see below), the second move gives up the bishop pair a bit too quickly.
[Event "Essent Crown"]
[Site "Hoogeveen"]
[Date "2004.10.17"]
[Round "4"]
[White "Carlsen,Magnus"]
[Black "Stellwagen,Daniel"]
[Result "0-1"]
[Eco "B19"]
1.e4 c6 2.d4 d5 3.Nc3 dxe4 4.Nxe4 Bf5 5.Ng3 Bg6 6.h4 h6 7.Nf3 Nd7 8.h5 Bh7
9.Bd3 Bxd3 10.Qxd3 Ngf6 11.Bf4 e6 12.0-0-0 Nd5 13.Bd2 Nb4 14.Qb3 a5 15.Kb1 a4 16.Qe3 Nd5
17.Qe2 b5 18.Ne5 Nxe5 19.dxe5 Qb6 20.Rh3 a3 21.b3 Qd4 22.c3 Qxc3 23.Be1 Qb2+ 24.Qxb2 axb2
25.Kxb2 Nf4 26.Rh2 c5 27.Ne4 c4 28.Kb1 Ba3 29.g3 Nd3 30.Bc3 0-0 31.f4 Rfd8 32.Rhd2 Rd5
33.Ba1 Bb4 34.Bc3 Ba3 35.Ba1 Rd7 36.Rc2 Rb8 37.Nc3 b4 38.Ne4 c3 39.Nd6 Nc5 40.Re2 Nb7
41.Re4 Nxd6 42.exd6 Rb5 43.Rc4 Rxh5 44.Rc7 Rxc7 45.dxc7 Rc5 0-1
Opinions please!