Pokemon Blue wrote:I’ve been using the Caro Kann recently and I’m now doing better with black than with white.
Anyone know of any good openings for white that work well if you’re really comfortable playing the Caro as black? I’ve tried Queens Gambit a bit recently with mixed results - also considering looking into Colle Zukertort system and Jobava London, but idk
My first suggestion would've been the QGD but I will offer some alternative suggestions if I'm correct and assuming you like the Caro because it allows a safe positional game with pretty comfortable development and you're an intermediate level player
One strategy would be to play 1 e4 because it will allow you to play into the Caro as white, and your understanding of the position and pawn structures will translate well. 1 e4 1 e5 is pretty intuitive for white and there are many positional ways to play it esp if you keep the position closed. Your main problem to solve is how to approach various sicilian setups. There are many anti sicilians that can force the game in a positional direction, to this end I like the alapin or alternatively some combination of the rossolimo (for 2 ..nf6), marcozy bind or delayed c3 (vs 2 ..g6), moscow variation or another delayed c3 (vs 2 ..d6), and chekhover or yet again c3 (seeing a pattern?) (against 2 ..e6). In short you can either play the alapin or deviate into a delayed alapin setup if you're not too comfortable with their 2nd move after you play 2 nf3 and the game will generally veer into more positional territory.
Another idea is to play the english. Opponents at your level will probably not have a deep theoretical book against it, and as a result it tends to be an opening where people just get their pieces out and play normal chess, with slight edge to white (or a larger edge if you know main ideas of the opening and your opponent doesn't)