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An aggressive main line Caro-Kann?
11/28/04 at 03:24:51
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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  ??? Shocked,  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

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