Magnus Carlsen Shows How to Play the Pirc Defense 

Good luck with the Pirc!

Well I am not trying to rant at you but trying to give you advice. If you look at this move it is the main line and if you are actually willing to play it you have to understand all the lines. Anyways good luck 👍

@@Anonymous-iz4yc Ive watched LOTS of youtube content on the Pirc, and this is the first time I have seen this idea explained. I now use this in my games. Always learning.

@@TheRampax oh well that is good to know but I have a coach and i'm not trying to disturb any peace; HOWEVER this is one of the most necessary lines to learn and it is good to know that you are learning 👍

Happy to hear that this was helpful!

Of course i love playing with White against these pirc kingsind moderndefence positions, and love to Exchange the dark bishop creating that battery and mostly doing this playing the jugoslav Attack, but this Is a case on its own, for black delayed castling so to avoid this White Plan, to deplete this Plan. And to me Is often difficult to play against and opponent Who delay castling (or doesnt at all), however black has to be precise when doing this, keeping the k in the center, even more so when the center Is not completely closed already, so White can react on the center, swithing to a different Plan, to break in the center and Attack with some e and d open columns

Dank je!

Thank you! Happy to hear that you liked the game and my analysis.

@GMBenjaminBok Your analysis was brilliant and I've watched your video several times to understand the move choice and how to deal with likely deviations. I usually play the modern in the hope of getting into a hippo set up, but deviate into a pirc if confronted with the 3 pawn attack (e4/d4/nc3/f4) but still find white's e4/d4/nce/Be3/Qd2 set up (akin to the fischer attack vs the sicilian dragon) uncomfortable to meet. So Magnus' hybrid Pirc/Gurgendize (ie. c6/b5/nd7/nb6) system very interesting and logical to get at white on the Queenside, while not castling into white's brewing kingside attack. My only quibble with Magnus' play is playing c5, rather than castling queenside first as after c5 white could have played Bb5+ and at minimum black valuable nb6 would have had to drop back to defend and possibly get exchanged off. Perhaps the bishop check is trash anyway, but I'm not a gm and would worry about it taking the sting out of black's coming attack down the c file using the b6 knight. Sorry if too long a reply but thank you for your really really great analysis of this fascinating game! Cheers!

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My pleasure! Keep up the good work.

Congrats bro 🤌

Thank you!

My pleasure, thanks!

Thanks! 🙏

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You are welcome!

My pleasure!

Dank je Tom!

Thank you! 🙏

Thank you!

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Thank you! Glad you liked it 💯

My pleasure!

@@zachlward thank you!

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What is that?

Sort of, have you purchased the course?

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Keep up the good work! 📈 💪

It happens 😔

I play it all the time in bullet because it stops a lot of common cheap tricks

Thanks for letting me know!

Peerz?

Because it's a weird word.

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Specifically.. the take take take take tradedown.., etc.

Wait, did I? 😅