I play more blitz chess than I should. But to get something back out of my games, I make a habit of looking up the book moves when I feel like I went astray in the opening. Generally I'll follow the main move in Chessbase Online and keep my eye on the top scoring variation. If it's not clear which way to proceed at a branching point, I can view all games played at that position and look for players I recognize, and see how the top players get things done.
I've been trying to expand my chess opening knowledge, hopefully to the point of having a decent/passable understanding of most chess openings. So, for no good reason at all, I was looking at the Bronstein-Larsen variation of the Caro-Kann (I don't play e4, but why not check it out)? I ran across this blog that gives some history to the variation, which makes the claim that black fell on hard times after the game Riemersma-Pietersee, Dieren 1989. I was unable to find that game in any database, but let's take a look: I'm not sure I quite believe that this exact game was the reason why the Bronstein-Larsen "fell into utter disuse". I looked in Chessbase Online, and white is scoring 70% after 11. ...f5, but of the 23 games played from that position white hasn't played 12. Qe2. Not that it matters, obviously white is scoring well from there. In fact, white scores 70% from 8. g3, with 662 games in the database, so probably a better assessm...
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