Do you feel like studying chess has gotten overwhelming? You aren't alone. Look around and you'll see AI is everywhere now. It's a buzzword, but what I'm noticing lately is very refreshing. People are fed up with AI and want to embrace simplicity again. This post is going to talk about chess studying and technology, and how it has changed over the past 30 years. 1996: The Early Internet Era Ahh, the 90s. I was ten years old in 1996 and the way we studied chess back then almost had…

The Caro-Kann exchange isn't white's best try for an advantage. It often leads to dry-ish positions. Our course however, will teach you to play for the initiative. These are some of my favorite lines in the entire course. If you want to know more about the Caro-Kann check out Caro-Kann Strategy. Let's kick it off with our standard Caro-Kann moves. 1. e4 c6 2.d4 d5. But not white captures on d5, just as white did in the Panov attack. We will capture back, of course. Unlike the Panov attack (for…

Let’s continue our Essential Strategy series on the Caro-Kann. We've covered the Advance variations. But what happens if they instead capture our pawn early? Well, we'll capture to start of course. Then we'll put our pieces on good square and play for an initiative. After we capture back, if white plays the immediate c4, we're in Panov territory. We have a fun setup to play here, and we're going to temporarily gambit a pawn. White will develop their knights, and we'll follow suit. After all four knights are in the mix, we come…