A Deep Dive into the Caro-Kann Advance Variation for Black PGN Only Jan 05, 2026 Chessable

This Schandorff Solution Fixes Everything
You Hate About The Caro-Kann
Advance Variation

Learn from an 11-time national league champion and author of the Caro-Kann bible. Turn White’s space-grab and brutal attacks against them… by pouncing on the targets they left behind.

Just like this:

Strong squares secured for your pieces,
thanks to White’s bold advances

Meet your coach, Lars Schandorff.

He’s a Grandmaster from Denmark with a peak FIDE rating of 2563. He won the 1988 Danish Chess Championship and back-to-back Copenhagen Opens in 1997 and 1998.

In team events, Schandorff has been one of the most reliable players in Europe. He’s played in 8 Olympiads for Denmark. And he also helped his clubs to 11 first-place finishes in German, Danish, and Swedish chess leagues.

For most chess improvers, however, he’s best known as the Caro-Kann man.

He didn’t just play the opening. He wrote the bible on it!

First came his classic Grandmaster Repertoire: Caro-Kann. Then he updated his analysis in Play The Caro-Kann: A Counterattacking Repertoire, followed by a Chessable Lifetime Repertoire

This new course before you is the next step in Schandorff’s project. And inside, he shows you how to…

Turn the Squares Left Behind by the
Advance Variation Into a Constant
Source of Counterplay!

You start with the usual moves, 1.e4 c6 2.d4 d5. Then you answer the space-grabbing 3.e5 with 3…Bf5. You immediately claim the most active diagonal, opened by White’s advance.

The starting position of Schandorff’s 3…Bf5

From here, Schandorff covers every nook and cranny through 257 MoveTrainer lines plus 11 hours of video.

Did White go for the Short Variation (4.Nf3)?

It’s the most principled way to challenge your 3…Bf5. You can bet anyone playing it has done their homework.

So you take them “out of book” with a Magnus Carlsen-favored …a7-a5-a4 push. Played in only 0.08% of master and online games, your plan grabs queenside space while the center remains locked.

Surprise booked-up White players with
the Carlsen-approved …a7-a5 push

You leave White wondering if you’re about to ram that pawn to the 3rd rank, wrecking their structure.