'Wait, what?' Claudia frowned immediately when she saw the development of the game. 'How could my position get worse out of nowhere?' She shouted inside her head in frustration, somehow feeling a slight doubt about what was going on here.
The surprise that Anna pulled was enough to catch her off guard, forcing her to burn her time for even a simple move like a pawn push or a castle. Not only that, it had been a long time since Claudia played with the Caro-Kann defense, so her memory was a little bit rusty here. Still, the girl remembered clearly that white's position shouldn't be as bad as hers if she played everything correctly.
Yeah, somehow, Claudia got two doubled-pawns just in the first eleven moves of the game. First was in the D file, and this was already within her expectations as she remembered clearly this line in her brain. However, the second one was definitely the boomerang that threw her focus away for a moment.
