I was learning this defence for sometime. You have totally made me relearn everything again. Liking your step by step explanation of each move and options available and counterplay. Looking forward to more on this defence and kings Indian defence.. A speedrun would be exciting. Thanks
@@AlexBanzea Thank you for all the great content. It helped me score my biggest win so far in the chess league (90+30). A lil rookie FIDE 1539 playing as black vs. 1942 😂 We've got no more team matches till October - which I kind of like because it gives me a chance to improve my game more with your upcoming course in ~August.
I enjoyed that game against the 1975 rated player where you sacked an exchange and pushed the ‘a’ pawn to victory. Hard to believe your are not a GM. Would have loved to see playing against the Pirc from the white side. I (rating of 1600) encounter players in the intermediate level (1600-1800) play Pirc in the OTB English league.
Hello from France. I have not yet watched the video but I want to say you "Thank you". I added a commentary in a last video / post about pirc and you share a video about it. Very cool!!!
Hey man I'm learning more from your videos than pretty much any other online content, really great videos keep it up and your channel will surely explode soon!
11:10 it’s possible to take on e4 to put d5 (destroying the center) but it’s way too risky to do it before castling. If white takes f7 then Rxf7 then h6 to avoid Ng5.
A lot of players are so focused on playing Bc4. It is their bread and butter it seems, yawn. You have a new follower on Lichess today. Greetings from DD.
Excited to watch but the move order I get into the pirc is 1.e4 Nc6 2.Nf3 d6 3.d4 Nf6 4.Nc3 g6 the knight goes on c6 really early but theres no f3 or f4 attacks cause their Nf3 is blocking it :)
@@AlexBanzea On d4 there's mainly 2...d5 and 2...e5. I prefer e5 but it has some problems like 3.dxe5 when black has lost a lot of center control or 3.Nf3 transposing back into a Scotch. But I think that white usually does 2.Nf3 thinking that black plays 2...e5 transposing back into mainlines, but instead we play d6 there. 1...Nc6 is just still my favorite opening so I still play it but I might start learning something like the French again soon because of some of the problems Nc6 has.
Moar! Pirc only rating climb would be my favorite new playlist
That is on the list! And Reti with white to keep the same style.
I was learning this defence for sometime. You have totally made me relearn everything again. Liking your step by step explanation of each move and options available and counterplay. Looking forward to more on this defence and kings Indian defence.. A speedrun would be exciting. Thanks
Thanks a lot. Kings Indian Speedrun sounds spicy 🌶
This is a great format! Not a pirc player (yet) but I face it a lot, so it's useful to see it played from the black's perspective.
Thanks buddy! Not a pirc player either, but doing my best haha
@@AlexBanzea Thank you for all the great content. It helped me score my biggest win so far in the chess league (90+30). A lil rookie FIDE 1539 playing as black vs. 1942 😂
We've got no more team matches till October - which I kind of like because it gives me a chance to improve my game more with your upcoming course in ~August.
We need a rating climb series for this
Really enjoyed this. Daniel Naroditsky, who is clearly brilliant, isn't a recommender of the Pirc, but you play it beautifully.
I enjoyed that game against the 1975 rated player where you sacked an exchange and pushed the ‘a’ pawn to victory. Hard to believe your are not a GM. Would have loved to see playing against the Pirc from the white side. I (rating of 1600) encounter players in the intermediate level (1600-1800) play Pirc in the OTB English league.
he's a very good player but online blitz is very different to playing rated classical games OTB to earn your GM norms.
What’s the difference between the Pirc Defence and Kings Indian Defence?
In the pirc the knight is in front of the c-pawn and it gives white the chance to play more agressive set-ups with f4 or Be3-Qd2 and 0-0-0
Watching you play the pirc is mind blowing 😍
Hello from France. I have not yet watched the video but I want to say you "Thank you". I added a commentary in a last video / post about pirc and you share a video about it. Very cool!!!
Thank you so much! I need this! 👍😁
Hey man I'm learning more from your videos than pretty much any other online content, really great videos keep it up and your channel will surely explode soon!
Thanks a lot! Glad to help ❤️
At 0:43 you mentioned a player to study. Who was it? Thanks. Loved your KIA videos.
GM Anish Giri
Do you have a chessable course for the Pirc/king's indian/modern?
I would be very interested in purchasing that
nah, Pirc is very unpredictable for low elo. Kid is also not simple, but much more annoying for 1.d4 players
11:10 it’s possible to take on e4 to put d5 (destroying the center) but it’s way too risky to do it before castling. If white takes f7 then Rxf7 then h6 to avoid Ng5.
That is correct, I checked it after the game!
Nice, another defense to learn. Ty
Yeah! Thank you so much!
A lot of players are so focused on playing Bc4. It is their bread and butter it seems, yawn.
You have a new follower on Lichess today. Greetings from DD.
Great games! Stream was fun too :D
Thanks for tuning in!
Do you think the pirc is a good opening?
not a big fan, it's super random for low elo. It's more interesting above 2000
Excited to watch but the move order I get into the pirc is 1.e4 Nc6 2.Nf3 d6 3.d4 Nf6 4.Nc3 g6 the knight goes on c6 really early but theres no f3 or f4 attacks cause their Nf3 is blocking it :)
That’s an interesting way of seeing it. But what if white plays 1.e4 Nc6 2.d4 lets say?
@@AlexBanzea On d4 there's mainly 2...d5 and 2...e5. I prefer e5 but it has some problems like 3.dxe5 when black has lost a lot of center control or 3.Nf3 transposing back into a Scotch. But I think that white usually does 2.Nf3 thinking that black plays 2...e5 transposing back into mainlines, but instead we play d6 there. 1...Nc6 is just still my favorite opening so I still play it but I might start learning something like the French again soon because of some of the problems Nc6 has.
Pirc only rating climb 🧗♀️ let’s go!!!