About this opening
Caro-Kann Defense: Panov Attack, Gunderam Attack is an opening in the Encyclopedia of Chess Openings,
classified under code B13. 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 9 half-moves from the
starting position, with the move sequence 1. e4 c6 2. d4 d5 3. exd5 cxd5 4. c4 Nf6 5. c5.
It belongs to the Caro-Kann Defense family.
Within that family this is a level-2 branch (the Panov Attack → Gunderam Attack line). The immediate parent line is Caro-Kann Defense: Panov Attack, transitioned via 5.c5.
The opening sequence in prose form: 1.e4 c6, 2.d4 d5, 3.exd5 cxd5, 4.c4 Nf6, 5.c5. 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.