Alexander Khalifman: Opening for white according to Anand 3

Chess Stars, paperback, Englisch, ISBN: 978-9-548782-41-8, 356 Seiten, 2004.

Caro-Kann-Verteidigung, Skandinavische Verteidigung

The third volume of the popular series "Opening for White according to Anand -1.e4" deals with the Caro-Kann and Scandinavien Defence.

The Scandinavian Defence is definitely one of the neglected side­lines of the contemporary opening theory.
Only just a few grand­masters dare to include it in their opening repertoires at high level once in a while.

The Caro-Kann Defence leads to positions that are sometimes similar to the Scandinavian Defence if you have in mind the pawn structure and the standard opening strategy.
On the other hand, contrary to the not so solid Scandinavian Defence, it enjoys the repu­tation as the opening of the chess-academics.
Capablanca, Botvinnik, Petrosian and Karpov - this list of great chess-champions that have been life-long devotees of the Caro-Kann Defence can be easily ex­tended.

14th World Champion Khalifman shares with the readers plenty of interesting discoveries and sometimes surprising results of his deep analytical work.