About this opening
Caro-Kann Defense: Tartakower Variation, Perlis Line is an opening in the Encyclopedia of Chess Openings,
classified under code B15. ECO group B (B00–B99)
covers semi-open games (1.e4 with Black playing anything other than 1…e5), with the Sicilian, French, Caro-Kann and Pirc/Modern at its heart. This particular variation is reached
after 16 half-moves from the
starting position, with the move sequence 1. e4 c6 2. d4 d5 3. Nc3 dxe4 4. Nxe4 Nf6 5. Nxf6+ exf6 6. c3 Bd6 7. Bd3 O-O 8. Qc2 h6.
It belongs to the Caro-Kann Defense family.
Within that family this is a level-2 branch (the Tartakower Variation → Perlis Line line). The immediate parent line is Caro-Kann Defense: Tartakower Variation, transitioned via 8…h6.
The opening sequence in prose form: 1.e4 c6, 2.d4 d5, 3.Nc3 dxe4, 4.Nxe4 Nf6, 5.Nxf6+ exf6, 6.c3 Bd6. From this position the encyclopaedia records no further canonical continuations — practical play branches into unnamed transpositions or returns to the parent line for alternative ideas.
Use the interactive board above to walk through the moves position-by-position. Click any move in the navigation to step backwards, or use the keyboard arrow keys. For statistical data — how often master-level players have reached this position, White's win-rate, draw frequency, Black's score — see the panel in the right column.
Caissly's coverage of B15 extends through every named sub-variation in this line and across all four locales (English, Spanish, Portuguese, Russian). Where editorial commentary exists for a specific variation it appears as the page body; otherwise the page presents the structural data, board, and statistics as shown here.