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Master the Pirc Defence! - A strategic and dynamic approach

This interactive video course of over 8 hours, provides an in-depth exploration of the Pirc Defence, a favoured opening for people looking to play for the win with the black pieces. Through a combination of key reference games and the analysis of a complete repertoire, this ChessBase Training video course helps you understand the essential themes, ideas, and resources needed to master this opening.

Free Video sample: Introduction

Free Video sample: Attacking like in the King's Indian Defence

The Pirc (1.e4 d6 2.d4 Nf6 3.Nc3 g6) is a dynamic opening that temporarily allows the opponent to control the centre, only to challenge it later in a more aggressive manner. It leads to complex and often unbalanced middlegame positions, offering ample opportunities for counterplay, even against well-prepared opponents. Of course, there is an element of risk in this approach, but as the famous quote by Xavier Tartakower reminds us, "The player that takes risks may lose, the player that doesn't always loses." Through this video course, you will see that the risk is controlled when you understand the various resources of the position, making the Pirc an excellent practical choice to add to your repertoire. You will acquire a new strategic weapon for playing with the black pieces, capable of surprising your opponents, while providing real winning chances in rich and unpredictable positions.

Extensive training content and interactive exercises in ChessBase Books:
Solve exercises & and test your knowledge with the Opening Trainer & Fritz App.

  • Video running time: 8 hours 14 minutes
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This is what is delivered:

  • Fritztrainer for 4 platforms: App for Windows, App for Mac, ChessBase books and ChessBase Videostream
  • Delivery as a download or by post (card with serial number)
  • Video course with a running time of approx. 4-8 hrs.
  • Repertoire database: save and integrate Fritztrainer games into your own repertoire (in WebApp Opening or in ChessBase)
  • Interactive exercises with video feedback: the authors present exercises and key positions, the user has to enter the solution. With video feedback (also on mistakes) and further explanations.
  • All videos and additional tasks, tests and texts included in the CB books.
  • Sample games as a ChessBase database.

That's what the FritzTrainer App can do for you:

  • Videos can run in the Fritztrainer app or in the ChessBase program with board graphics, notation and a large function bar
  • Analysis engine can be switched on at any time
  • Video pause for manual navigation and analysis in game notation
  • Input of your own variations, engine analysis, with storage in the game
  • Learn variations: view specific lines in the ChessBase WebApp Opening with autoplay, memorize variations and practise transformation (initial position - final position).
  • Active opening training: selected opening positions are transferred to the ChessBase WebApp Fritz-online. In a match against Fritz you test your new knowledge and actively play the new opening.

Even more possibilities: Start FritzTrainer in the ChessBase program!

  • The database with all games and analyses can be opened directly.
  • Games can be easily added to the opening reference.
  • Direct evaluation with game reference, games can be replayed on the analysis board
  • Your own variations are saved and can be added to the own repertoire
  • Replay training
  • LiveBook active
  • All engines installed in ChessBase can be started for the analysis
  • Assisted Analysis
  • Print notation and diagrams (for worksheets)

The new ChessBase product installer:

  • A CB booklet contains all the information you need to install your product on your computer.
  • The booklet does not contain a DVD! Nevertheless, it takes up a valuable place in your DVD collection.
  • It contains comprehensive installation instructions and a serial number that unlocks your product for use.
  • You do not need a DVD drive for installation.
  • The booklet is a valuable contribution to environmental protection, it was produced without plastic.

    • Sample video

    Contents

    • Introduction
    • Understanding the Pirc
    • Key Games to Understand the Themes
    • Attacking like in the King's Indian Defence
    • Attacking the Centre
    • General Knowledge and Flexibility in the Pirc
    • How to Defend Against a Kingside Attack?
    • Domination on the Dark Squares
    • The d6-d5 Push
    • Activity
    • The Classical Variation 1.e4 d6 2.d4 Nf6 3.Nc3 g6 4.Nf3
    • Main Line 4...Bg7 5.Be2 0-0 6.0-0 Nc6
    • Additional Options and Other 5th Moves by White
    • Find key moves
    • Repertoire Training
    • Practice Positions
    • Fianchetto Variation 1.e4 d6 2.d4 Nf6 3.Nc3 g6 4.g3
    • 1.e4 d6 2.d4 Nf6 3.Nc3 g6 4.g3
    • Find key moves
    • Repertoire Training
    • Practice Positions
    • The 4.Bf4!? Variation 1.e4 d6 2.d4 Nf6 3.Nc3 g6 4.Bf4
    • 1.e4 d6 2.d4 Nf6 3.Nc3 g6 4.Bf4
    • Find key moves
    • Repertoire Training
    • The 4.Bg5 Variation 1.e4 d6 2.d4 Nf6 3.Nc3 g6 4.Bg5
    • 1.e4 d6 2.d4 Nf6 3.Nc3 g6 4.Bg5 c6 5th move alternatives
    • 1.e4 d6 2.d4 Nf6 3.Nc3 g6 4.Bg5 c6 5.f4 Bg7 6.Qd2 b5 7.Bd3 0-0 8.Nf3 Bg4 9.0-0 Qb6
    • 1.e4 d6 2.d4 Nf6 3.Nc3 g6 4.Bg5 c6 5.Qd2 Nbd7
    • Find key moves
    • Repertoire Training
    • Practice Positions
    • The Saemisch Attack 1.e4 d6 2.d4 Nf6 3.Nc3 g6 4.Be3 a6 5.Qd2 or 5.f3
    • 1.e4 d6 2.d4 Nf6 3.Nc3 g6 4.Be3 a6 5.Qd2 or 5.f3
    • Find key moves
    • Repertoire Training
    • Practice Positions
    • The 150 Attack 1.e4 d6 2.d4 Nf6 3.Nc3 g6 4.Be3 a6 5.h3!?
    • 1.e4 d6 2.d4 Nf6 3.Nc3 g6 4.Be3 a6 5.h3!?
    • Find key moves
    • Repertoire Training
    • Practice Positions
    • “Universal” Variation 5.Qd2 followed by Bh6
    • “Universal” Variation Against 4.Be3 / 4.Bf4 / 4.Bg5 (1.e4 d6 2.d4 Nf6 3.Nc3 g6 4.Bg5/Be3/Bf4 Bg7 5.Qd2 followed by Bh6
    • Repertoire Training
    • The 4.Be2 Variation 1.e4 d6 2.d4 Nf6 3.Nc3 g6 4.Be2
    • 1.e4 d6 2.d4 Nf6 3.Nc3 g6 4.Be2
    • Find key moves
    • Repertoire Training
    • The Austrian Attack 1.e4 d6 2.d4 Nf6 3.Nc3 g6 4.f4
    • 4...Bg7 5.e5
    • 4...Bg7 5.Nf3 0-0 6.e5
    • 4...Bg7 5.Nf3 0-0 6.Bd3 Nc6 7.e5
    • 4...Bg7 5.a3 or 5.Nf3 0-0 6.a3
    • 4...Bg7 5.Nf3 0-0 6.Be3
    • 4...Bg7 5.Nf3 0-0 6.Be2
    • 4...Bg7 5.Nf3 0-0 6.Bd3 Nc6 7.0-0 + Other Move Orders
    • Find key moves
    • Repertoire Training
    • Practice Positions
    • Minor Variations
    • 1.e4 d6 2.d4 Nf6 3.f3 and 3.Nd2
    • 1.e4 d6 2.d4 Nf6 3.Bd3
    • Miscellaneous 2nd moves
    • Repertoire Training
    • Conclusion
    • Exercises
    • Exercise 1
    • Exercise 2
    • Exercise 3
    • Exercise 4
    • Exercise 5
    • Exercise 6
    • Exercise 7
    • Bonus
    • Model Games
    • Analysis
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    Pirc Defence

    In the Pirc Defence, we come up against a second opening in which Black does not start by moving a pawn to the fifth rank. Instead of that he plans, by means of ...d6, ...Nf6, the bishop fianchetto ...g6, ...Bg7 and ...0-0, to adopt a formation similar to one in the King’s Indian, one of the most popular openings against 1.d4. The Pirc or the Pirc-Ufimtsev Defence goes back to the 1940s, making it even more recent than the Alekhine Defence; it takes its name from the Yugoslavian master Vasja Pirc (1907–1980) and Soviet master from Kazakhstan Anatoly Ufimtsev (1914–2000).

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