► Chapters 00:00 Best Chess Opening against 1.e4 00:25 Pirc Defense: Czech Defense 03:03 Solid setup for Black 04:31 No clear plan for White 08:18 Line-2: White plays 4.f4 10:10 Beware of this forcing line 12:47 White rook is trapped 15:01 Same setup against 1.d4 16:39 If White blocks the center
What is best move if White does something crazy like 3. E5 threatening the knight and Pawn? Also 3.N G4 seems to be problematic for me at times. Other than that this is my favorite Black opening
I found that with my low rating pirc or KID works very well as it results in me having a pretty solid position. It's not practical to memorize a lot of responses to specific moves since 400 rated players often do pretty unpredictable moves with white pieces.
in the opening, when you play Qa5, most opponents will play Bd2 threatening your queen. You say just move it back to safety, but then you’ll have moved the same piece twice and gave your opponent an extra move to develop. How is that correct? shouldn’t we consider Qc7 right away then?
I believe the idea is that you provoked your opponent to develop their bishop to a passive square. If you go queen c7 immediately your queen is in the same place while your opponent may develop their bishop to a much more active square
You keep showing white playing Bd3 before Bd2. The move order should be after black plays Qa5 then white plays Bd2 and wins a tempo as black has to retreat.
dude, after watching your videos . I paly like chessmaster. I mean, your advices are really deadly. I sacrifice pawns even bischop or knight but neverthless, I win the game. Thanks man.
I really wonder if this guy is a real GM. He puts so many videos with clickbait titles and a spurious line that it makes me doubt the teaching value. Basically he sets up strawman moves from the opposition that it seems like he’s assuming he’s playing against 1200 and below.
Exactly! Bd2 is almost every time the next move...and then this whole video goes out of the window. You immediately have to retreat the queen back wasting one(infact two) important move to develop in early game.
After Bd2 it's actually not necessary to retreat the queen right away you can play Bishop to G4 or Knight to D7 and welcome the "trap" of Nd5 as it is easily solved by moving back to D8. since the knight is on a bad square he is forced to move and it's either retreat or to trade off is Knight for yours
black needs to play, bf8 followed by g6 to kick the knight. Transpose into normal pirc structure. The knight at Ng3 has no good square when g6 is played.
The most common solution for white that was not adressed in this explantion after 4... Qa5 is 5. Bd2. If the black knight capture e4, the white knight is allowed to capture it back and at the same time the bishop attacks the Queen. In this video we have to pray for the blunder 5. Bd3. This trap is not practical.
I was struggling to learn some aggressive variations with black, and started losing very badly. I guess at my (low) level, a solid opening is better than a flashy one. And I have to say, this opening has been a blast the last days. Very solid, I mostly end up winning with a good position and on time, because the opponent is simply crushed and have no more moves to do, while I have multiple to choose from. Many thanks!
@ 2:10 - what if white responds with BE7? The computer played actually this move against me, I tried to continue as given here, but it defended quite well.
On line with 4.f4 Qa5 5.Qf3!! This is the best reply to black’s Qa5 move and all black’s plans fall now. You should prepare how black should continue if 5.Qf5!!
Yes, the Czech Pirc, watched that a while ago, learned how to mess it up quite quickly😂 ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-soHgoqfsh8Q.html
Interesting, but that way has one drawback - if somebody play 1.e4 he/she rather prefer sharp game, so he/she would rather play 8.Qe2 (instead of 8. 0-0) and next 9.0-0-0 and what to play is very easy to white and black - both oponents will atack on oponent's king. Whose attack will be faster that player win. That's why I don't play Pirck Defense playing black against 1.e4. I prefer 1...c6 or 1...e5 1...d5.
Where did GM Smirnoff learn such fluent accentless english.Did he spend time in English speaking countries in his youth or something. I am a native English speaker and I am amazed that he speaks absolutely perfectly without an accent. Most east European grandmaster have decent passable English but his is practically native level.
To my previous comment, I have seen most players defend the pawn exchange on d5 with Bf4, this is the mistake, it leaves b2 undefended Qb6 attacks the pawn, blocks castling AND threatens mate....I have got that mate more times than I should. I almost feel guilty
What about after Qa5 they play Bd2 to break the pin? You retreat the queen to c7 to avoid the discovered attack and then they push e5 before you’ve had the chance to play e5?
Hi Igor I saw this opening a few months ago (is it the called the Czech variation of the Pirc?) but I had very little success with it! In my experience after Qa5 White ALWAYS plays Bd2 and Black doesn't seem to do so well after that. Please can you show some plans for Black against that White set up?
all good well and fine......but...what if white plays pawn to D5...where is that? Is there some way you can make my opponents play the white moves? because they never do.
That’s so cool, thanks Igor! Or at least that’s how I think your name is spelt, but I see one comment here uses “Egor”. What is correct please? Thanks again sir, and best wishes 🌞
I got these position in a real.match and 7 steps in I forgot what comes next in a 1 minute match lol but I was still in strong position i just forgot what to do next to win it was funny I had to just play basic chess from there
(wanted to say stay safe) and also ask because i play on lichess. who teaching to trade bishop for rook on f1 f8? i find this trade so bad is their actually a line where it works. because i dont think there is. if you need examples i can give them from 1800 and 1900 lol i would venture a quest because teach from india or or eastern russian time zone and they speak english
This isn’t much of a “trap.” It’s a system known as the Czech Defense, aka Czech Pirc. I play it a lot, and it’s solid. Doesn’t always work as well against 1. d4 (which often becomes King’s Indian) unless they play 2. e4, transposing into what we saw in this video.
I was looking for some solid openings for black and then I saw this, before watching this video I play the pirc main line and the czech pirc I thought that this opening was too passive, so I didn't play it a lot, but this video made me realize that the pirc can also be very attacking! thank you, GM Smirnov
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