Opening Ideas: Pirc Defense - GM Yasser Seirawan - 2013.06.05
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 19 มิ.ย. 2013
- Chess Grandmaster Yasser Seirawan presents an intermediate-level lecture about opening ideas and the Pirc Defense at the Chess Club and Scholastic Center of Saint Louis.
I love Yasser Seirawan! Not only does he describe very simply and instructively the complex intricacies of positions, he does it in such a calming and relaxing way. It's like being at a chess club and a meditation retreat at the same time, all while sitting at my PC eating pizza. Thankyou, Yasser.
He's uncle material alright.
He's also an excellent player, he's beaten Kasparov, Karpov, Anthony Miles. He's a very underrated player
And Yaz never threatened for the world title, didn't even come close. Just a high-level coffeehouse hustler (and GM of course).
I just came here from a Ben Finegold lecture in which he claimed that, right now, Yasser Seirawan is outside picketing and telling everyone not to play the Winawer French, which is the most hilariously incongruous idea ever.
@@stopwritingthatreplyjohnat6638 "he's beaten Kasparov, Karpov, Anthony Miles" One of these players is not like the others. One of these players isn't the same.
I'd've gone with Korchnoi, Tal and Spassky, ahead of Miles, and likely Gligoric, Polugayevsky and Portisch, too.
The fact that Yasser plays the dragon Sicilian just because dragons are sweet makes me loves this guy like 10x more.
The first opening I learned was the Fried Liver because I thought it sounded cool.
@@marianorivera3272 Wow thats most theoretical opening to learn.
such a calming voice to listen to. "The Bob Ross of Chess"
Wes Key-Schitz I was leaning Mr. Rodgers but to the same effect.
Bob Ross was actually a drill sargent who just got tired of yelling at people.
"Happy little pawns."
I agree
For the last 20 minutes the podium is covering the half left side of the white pieces.
I could listen to Yasser Seirawan explain chess all day.
lol i love this GM and watching how passionate he gets about the chess moves. what a nice guy!
I really like this guy. So humble and kind. I've been watching all of his videos and Kummer's. Used to be really into chess when I was younger but lost the taste for it. Over the past month I became severely addicted. I've been reading Silman's 'assess your chess' book and some terms he was using led me to stumble on these videos. I didn't realize how stupid I was until I started playing chess again. It's just amazing how rusty the brain gets when it rests on its laurels. Please keep up the great work, I enjoy these lectures very much :)
0Pr0ph3t0 My story is almost exactly the same as yours, although mine mebe a little differeny depending on how old you are. I learned to play chess when I was 12 and immediately started playing scholastically. When I was 14 I actually played for the national scholastic championship in my division (which was the lowest rated division LOL) in 1997. It was a 7round tournament and one other player and I were 6-0 g6oing into the final game. I lost to my unrated Cuban opponent who played like a 1900, weaving a beautiful mating net in the middle game.
But back then, Kasparov had beaten Deep Blue and computers aren't what they are now. a 333mhz processor was a big deal. So when I stumbled onto the videos I was amazed. I was lucky enough to play GM Dzhidzhihaschvilitz (I know I butchered that) in a similar, but that was it. I couldn't believe I could get free lectures from Yasser, someone I had never heard speak, but I owned and read all of his books. I was stunned.
and then when I discovered how chess computers had progressed and how chess engines worked and could evaluate positions and games, I couldn't believe what a fantastic resource they were. So now, after listening to all Yasser and Finegold's lectures, I can honestly say I'm a better player now than I've ever been and I'm improving every day. I played on chess.com and analyze almost all of my games after, even though I'm just playing 5 minute blitz. I'm just trying to get in as many games as I can to try and get a grip on the opening. And it's the computer and these lectures that make that possible. it's truly amazing.
He's extremely good, but why the f#$% does he mispronounce simple words such as "setup"? It's like he's going out of his way to be annoying.
@@blairschirmerx1711 Ha? Can you point at the actual mispronunciation?
I also enjoy his way of presentation, it is really good to remember that variation
@UCfs7QhlqGI26HgBa51n6JgQ kummer is actually pretty good you dont have to learn from a god always...do what makes you love chess more, even if it means watchig and learning from someone you find funny...not everyone has to learn from hikaru so stfu soyboi
What a gentle giant and kind human being! Thank you sir and may God bless you with excellent health and a long life!😇
Yasser has both chess skills and teaching skills. What an awesome combination!
It's amazing how he his able to explain the logic and thought-process behind each move. It's even more impressive when you see how he is able to respond to the suggested moves and questions.
Seirawan used to own or co-own a chess shop in Seattle. They sold a really good low priced tournament chessmen set. I've never found them anywhere else since.
Wonderful. Thanks to Yasser and all involved in producing and publishing these videos.
10 years later this is still an excellent lesson. He explaines it so well, even a beginner like me understands every move.
Awesome teacher! Yasser is so easy to understand and very thorough. I can't help but smile when he smiles from the excitement. I could watch Yasser for hours! I can't wait to start using the Pirc defense...
Loved it! I just got your new book "Dueling Masters," and am thoroughly enjoying reading it! Thank you for all your efforts.
the way that he explains is just amazing and relaxing! i love his style .. thank you for the video i learnt many things ^_^
Amazing man. Both a gentleman on and of the chessboard. I visited the scholastic centre and by chance he was there. Very humble behind great coaching tips.
Great hospitality by ALL and by luck a grandmaster there gave me the great chess tip . . " Its not often WHAT chess books you study but HOW you study the chess books that will aid your chess development"
Really enjoyable voice and personality. Thanks alot to the Chess Club and Scholastic Center of Saint Louis for sharing such a great lecture!
This was an instructive lecture, describing the "flow of logic" in chess moves. Thank Mr. Seirawan and thank you Saint Louis Chess Club.
On a rainy day and my best chess buddy has been hospitalized for nearly 11 months, I find listening to the Gentle Giant of chess most comforting. Thank you, Lord, for this angelic human being!!!😇
nothing but respect for this guy! keep these vids coming!
i love these videos. GM Seirawan is my favorite teacher.
It's pretty good to have patrons who support sports development. Thank you!
Great lecture, learned a lot, love his style with smiling a lot;)
He is gay ....
Yasser shared some beautiful opening ideas,thanks a lot, It was very instructive!
YesSir Yasser. Could listen to your lectures all day.
What a lovely and engaging instructor!
Exellent chess lecture. Thank you.
best chess teacher I ever see
We are so lucky to have Yasser ❤
GM Seirawan is such a good teacher. Thank You!
Yasser is a great teacher. I definitely need to add the pirc to my game.
From about 15m... "And the amazing thing is I usually won against myself, which is (like) really hard to do..." I do enjoy listening to Yasser's lectures.
I love Yasser! I will now start playing the Pirc until at least 2017.
Asking after 1 year just to make sure you keept your promise till now
Ahmed Roberts Today is December 30, 2017. Have u kept your promise?
You still doing it?
Playing Pirc still?
This class was very good. I'm a Pirc player and I have to say that in some parts the Engine has better moves for both White and Black. And through my analysis of all the variations of the Pirc, I have to admit that Pirc is a suboptimal defense, however, that also means it is made for those who love to rack their brain. If you really prepare this defense, I assure you that a lot of victories will come to you.
just won a nice couple of games with the pirc, thanks yasser!
Ne8 at 32.28 is absolutely brilliant. Great lecture all round!
absolutely mind blowing explanation
What a brilliant presentation
very nice lecture i really enjoyed it. I liké the personal touch to the lecture a lot.
Many Great Scholars to learn from.... Chess is a life within itself literally...
so humble. he talks like he is an ordinary man when interviewing vishy
Explaination was so excellent!
I watched this vid cause this guy is hilarious . I tried to apply his ideas in my online games , i lost one game in two days won over 100 online rating !!! From now on Yasser is my guide !!!
I think that what makes this lecture great is that it is very personal to the yaz.
He also puts the opening into a teeter totter analysis which is fun.
I could listen to Yasser talk all day :)
Yasser is the best! He and Leko are my favorite sports commentators of all time!
I remember learning and studying from the four, five or six books wrote by GM Yasser Seirawan:) Such a fond memory.
thanks for the nice lecture!
This could be a turn in my hopeless-feelings with black as i resigned to play Pirc-Ufimzew. I never had an idea of a counterplay with black and the queen. And for sure, it looks very scary also. I've played very passive and "save" in my younger years, but figured out, there is no hope then and gave up the Pirc.
35:30 Happy about e5, because it is losing a tempo...OK, let's do look at blacks first row. ;-)
I think this is very instructive, very good descriptions, i think i will study more of Seirawan's Lectures. Really impressing.
Yasser is a Grand Master of chess and a world champ teacher!!!
I just followed chess principles and really started playing this opening. I thought i invented something which gets me thru the faster time controls. I was so surprised to know that there exist an actual opening. So i wanted to explore this idea even more and that is how I ended up being here.
If people are wondering why at 32:13, the white Knight doesnt take the pawn a7, he addresses itat 49:20.
Great defense. Got my bong with the nice perc,took a rip and played some amazing chess!
Part of the history of Northwest chess was Duncan Suttles in Vancouver who played the Modern defence a close relative of the Pirc. A lot of players were influenced by him in that part of the world. Yasser in Seatle was part of that history.
Great lecture.
at 3:19 Small correction to Yasser's description on the name of the Dragon - it is a star constellation not planet
He is Dutch, and like most of his countrymen has almost perfect English grammar and pronunciation, but still get mixed up on some words.
@@biffslamchunk5055: Really? I did not know that. I am Dutch myself, and i can't hear the least trace of Dutch in his accent. Actually, i do not think he has any Dutch roots at all (he was born in Damascus, Syria). The only information i could find, that links him to the Netherlands, is that he is married to Woman FIDE Master Yvette Nagel, daughter of Dutch politician Jan Nagel.
And that also surprised me, because i was quite convinced that he was gay :-) Just about everything about him seems to say that ... probably my prejudice. Anyhow, no matter what, i like him and his lectures a lot.
Jurjen van der Hoek
its amazing with how much confidence and ease people will simply just talk a load of shite eh x
@@yadasampatidasa8690many gays have wifes. It is common known fact
@@yadasampatidasa8690 He said in this video that he lived in Amsterdam when he was younger.
Its a good opening for patient counter attacking players, which is exactly what Yasser is, you don't see it too often at the highest levels because White has such an initiative for a long time straight out of the opening.
this is good.. more please
I love Yasser, and he speaks at the perfect pace once I set him to 1.25x speed.
Thanks for the tip, buddy!
Please keep on posting these lectures ( more with GM Akobian and GM Ronen Har zivo
Lichess cpu Stockfish 11 gives black with advantage of 1.1. Just a great piece of analysis.
that was really awesome, thank you! ^_^
Great video..thanks 🙏
You are a good teacher ❤️
Yasser is great teacher indeed i purchased a course on chessable it was great, here my concern is the camera operator was probably sleeping and pointing camera some where else away from the action ...after the computer board disappeared it became clear the angle of shooting is very bad.
Really cool video
Instead of pawn e5 at 33:24, wouldn't it be possible for bishop d4, forking the queen and the bishop, gaining the missing tempo GM Seirawan mentioned about the pawn move, forcing a trade of black's strong dark squared bishop and weakening black's fortress? Sure, there's a check, letting black's queen slip away from the rook b1 trap (which happens anyway), but that seems like a fairly okay trade, considering black's queen is basically chased all the way back to start, leaving white with a vastly superior development?
I have no idea if it'll come back to bite white in the a** or not, but I'd love to hear what GM Seirawan would think about it :)
so lovely lecture..
At 14.27 can someone explain why he doesn't fear the move e5? Not quite understanding that part. Thanks.
Yea, I noticed this too. :) He's ofc talking about the stars in the constellation draco.
So here are the moves I got fallowing along.
1.e4 d6 2.d4 g6 3.Nc3 Nf6 4.f4 Bg7 5.Nf3 c5 6.dxc5 Qa5 7.Bd3 Qxc5 8.Qe2 O-O 9.Be3 Qb4 10.O-O
( 10.Rb1 Nxe4 11.Bxe4 Bxc3+ )
( 10.O-O-O Nxe4 11.Nxe4 Bxb2+ 12.Kb1 Bc3+ 13.Kc1 Qb2# )
10...Qxb2 11.Nb5 Ne8 12.e5 Qb4 13.Nxa7 Rxa7 14.Bxa7 Nc6 15.Be3 dxe5 16.fxe5 Nxe5 *
At 20:25 would it be possible to play a price down considering the pawn structure on each side
hope I can get some lines with your QB4 novelty in my games. Looks exciting!
11:39 castles recommendation is the only one given in Seirawan's Winning Chess Openings. I wonder if he later changed his mind to c5 and if so, at what point in his career he did that.
May i know what is the name of software that they use..please!!!!
The story teller amazing
Agree with pretty much every comment; Yasser is just a pleasant person. A pleasant chess player. Great commentator.
I didn’t know Louis Litt was a GM. Great lesson!
Now everyone is gonna know this line...thanks Seirawan...just kidding great lecture!!
13:00 instead of capturing the pawn on g6 with h pawn u can capture it with f pawn and u open lines for your rook without being worried about whites rook open h file because now it would be closed because our h pawn is there
What's the best move for black if after the Austrian attack and c5 white plays e5?
Love him. Reminds me of Liberace. Free gleeful soul
Really appreciate the explanation, but why was the chess board taken down after 38:30? It was somewhat difficult to follow after this point-especially when someone suggested moving the queen side rook to b1.
Yes, that bothered me too as I can't visualize what I can't see on the board.
I love his pronounciation of words, is he Chuck's brother?
He’s so kind and good at explaining this but makes it more of a scarier thought to VS him at it
So the counterstrike wtih ...c5 is the key with some Queen technique. This was very illuminating to me.
The opening music for this video series is very tactical
Ok, I'm sold.. I'm gonna play the Pirc
Does anyone know if Yasser has written a book on the Pirc?
At 18:35, rather than bd3, what if black plays b4? This breaks the pin on the knight, defends the pawn on c5, and threatens the queen. How does white continue after this move?
This video aged so well.
amazingly good. awesome!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
what happened to the chessboard at 38:28?
Could you do the lecture about clumsy rooks? I exactly know what you're talking about and experiencing what you're talking about. I feel like whenever I move my rooks I loose a tempo because it is really unnecessary to move rooks in many situations. I feel like that at least for me. So I stopped moving rooks unless I really have to.
I'm not talking about in the endgame. In the endgame you have to move your rooks. I'm talking about in the middlegames and openings.
I'm not good at writing, but I hope you know what I'm talking about.
Thank you Yasser always. You are an awesome GM. Every lecture really helps my chess and my interest in chess. Best wishes. :)
+Ben Pork
Would be nice if you provided us with an example.
+Ben Pork
I have a couple of books with lectures about how to move your rooks, but some of them are at quite a high level.
+Ben Pork But I could try to boil things down and make a lecture on my own, if Yasser doesn't react.
sir in last quarter a lot of light on board and computer is hindering to watch whole board
Call me weird but I can’t sleep without listening to Yasser explain chess
merci à tous
I have just created a study on lichess about this with the name "Pirc defense: Austrian Attack; Dragon Formation"
What's the link please? Thanks in advance.
at 40:50 white can play Bxg6 and if fxg6, then Qc4 check is winning
I like the check pirc variation
At 33:14, when he asks "how should white continue", would Nxa7 immediately be terrible?