A simple Pirc Defense repertoire for Black.
Practice the Pirc repertoire against a sparring partner: https://app.noctie.ai/repertoires/d9ba94e4-47d1-4bbc-90fc-8e6aa98cbbc8?aff=q9yKD
Practice the King’s Indian repertoire: https://app.noctie.ai/repertoires/791f9c2b-2c12-4cf8-a652-e6250ca3e319?aff=q9yKD
Pirc repertoire available here: https://www.patreon.com/posts/pirc-defense-for-143173836
And the King’s Indian repertoire here: https://www.patreon.com/posts/kings-indian-for-134080786
5 Best Books on the Pirc:
Pirc Defence (Grandmaster Repertoire), Marin: https://amzn.to/4ofvz7A
Pirc Alert! A Complete Defense Against 1.e4, Alburt, Chernin: https://amzn.to/3KTQpeb
The Perfect Pirc-Modern: Strategic Ideas & Powerful Weapons, Moskalenko: https://amzn.to/4o1ALMM
Starting Out: The Pirc/Modern, Gallagher: https://amzn.to/47swEDh
Play 1…d6 Against Everything: A Compact and Ready-to-use Black Repertoire for Club Players, Zude, Hickl: https://amzn.to/4qb2s70
The Pirc Defense is a very versatile hyper-modern opening and it provides great fighting chances for black.
The opening was named after the Slovenian Grandmaster Vasja Pirc, who popularized it in the second half of the 20th century. It has been played before, but it was never really taken seriously. As all modern openings, it neglects the classical chess principles. In fact, it goes directly against them.
Th idea behind the Pirc Defense is for black to fianchetto his kingside bishop and castle quickly and to strike at white’s center later on with the moves c5 or e5. Meanwhile, white is given a free hand and is able to form a strong center with pawns on e4 and d4 (often on f4 as well).
It’s similar to other modern openings, such as the King’s Indian or the Benoni, and it has similar ideas, so those types of openings may complement the Pirc well in your repertoire. Playing the Pirc against e4 and the KID against d4 would be most logical.
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