Pirc-Verteidigung Band 1: Positionelle Varianten Taktik where White players are unable

where White players are unable to relax and rely on their ''opening book'' knowledge

Part 3 Variation 4

You learned to attack – now it is time to sharpen your defensive tools

Even the very best players recognize the value of uncomfortable the opponent

A chunk of Chess for Life is devoted to Sergey Tiviakov

Pirc-Verteidigung Band 1: Positionelle Varianten Taktik where White players are unableAre there any absolute truths in an opening as flexible as the Pirc Defense? I played and studied the Pirc Defense intensively for more than ten years and thought I had found the best sequence of moves against every system White had. Then I tried other openings for a while and when I wanted to see what was new in the Pirc Defense, I had to realize that things were not so simple. So the repertoire I recommend on this DVD is a mixture of the still good