Every repertoire has a line the author quietly hopes nobody plays. For GM Luis Supi, it was the Panov — and he is unusually honest about how close it came to ending his relationship with the Caro-Kann altogether.
The problem was not that Black stands worse. Equalising against 4.c4 has never been hard. The problem was everything after that: positions with no realistic way to play for a win, and equality that felt dry enough that a strong technical player could still generate problems from it. For a player who chooses his openings by how much fight they contain, that was not good enough.
Caro-Kann according to Supi — Part 2 is the result of several months spent solving exactly that.
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Some positions are settled not because anyone proved them, but because everybody plays the same move. After 1.e4 c6 2.d4 d5 3.Nc3 dxe4 4.Nxe4 Nf6 5.Nxf6+ exf6 6.c3, the bishop goes to d6. It has gone to d6 for decades. In Caro-Kann according to Supi, GM Luis Supi asks what happens if it does not — and answers with 6...g6, a move that looks ugly for about ten seconds and then starts to look obvious.
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