You can play a response that is quite similar to the yugoslav attack in sicilian dragon
How exactly do you beat the Pirc Defence?
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Here's a game I played at the Preston Chess Congress, it was the last round and I needed to win to tie the tournament. I've rarely played against the Pirc and decided on a Kings Indian Attack as a safe bet, however the game evolved very quickly into a really sharp position in which I was defending numerous threats, somehow I managed to end up a piece ahead, still having to defend a possibly winning attack and in the end won with the extra piece as my opponent was in time trouble (missing a queen check to win the knight and possibly draw). I also missed playing E5 early on after B5 was played which would have won a whole rook for nothing.
https://www.chessdrop.com/xBBAotQtkx8t7chtG
Here is a game I really enjoyed very much (without annotation). Black was routed spectacularly in a very sharp position:
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pfren must have switched to V3 
Dec 5, 2016
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I used to play the Austrian Attack against the Pirc. Nowadays, I would probably just play a KIA instead.
JEH wrote:
There is a way to play against the Pirc called the '150 Attack'. You play e4, d4, Nc3, Be3, Qd2, Nf3, Bd3. So pieces are developed, centre protected, easy to remember so far as Black probably won't have done anything to disturb you. Now you castle Queenside, Play Bh6, take the Black Bishop on g7, play h4, h5, hxg, opening the h gile for your rook, Play Qh6 and then it's mate. Easy!
Err, ok, so Black gets some moves too, and it's not that easy (otherwise nobody would play the Pirc), but you've got a plan, and unless Black has you can win almost as easy as this. So Black will come at you with moves like e5 or c5 or c6/b5/b4 to attack your King, but you've got a good position to play from in any case.
The 150 Attack is so called because British players analyzing and developing it declared it straightforward and simple enough for a player rated 150 BCF (approximately 1800 FIDE) to use it and defeat a titled player! Broadly speaking the plan and deployment of pieces, as outlined above by JEH, is similar to those plans and deployments found in the Saemisch against the KID and the Yugoslav Attack against the Dragon, though there are obvious differences as well.
Yet Sicilian is quit hard to beat.
It is to some people.
Oh. Wrong game lol.
Dec 7, 2016
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#52
Gelate wrote:
Oh. Wrong game lol.
I will lend you one of my Sicilians until you get your game straightened out.
very good games
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blueemu schreef:
Gelate wrote:
Oh. Wrong game lol.
I will lend you one of my Sicilians until you get your game straightened out.
You play such sharp chess, I like it! It is almost like a Tal game. Tal also played the Bg5 move against the Najdorf I thought.
Possibly helpful:
A Simple Chess Opening Repertoire for White by Sam Collins
http://www.jeremysilman.com/shop/pc/A-Simple-Chess-Opening-Repertoire-for-White-76p3916.htm
http://www.gambitbooks.com/pdfs/A_Simple_Chess_Opening_Repertoire_for_White.pdf
My First Chess Opening Repertoire for White by Vincent Moret
https://www.newinchess.com/Shop/Images/Pdfs/9033.pdf
Playing 1.e4 - Caro-Kann, 1...e5 and Minor Lines by John Shaw
http://www.qualitychess.co.uk/ebooks/Playing1e4CaroKannandothers-excerpt.pdf
Beating Unusual Chess Defences: 1 e4 by Andrew Greet
https://www.newinchess.com/Shop/Images/Pdfs/8665.pdf
May 20, 2017
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#57
What is considered to be the latest way to duff up the Pirc?
It is a defence have always wanted to play, but never got round to it. Then last week was in a second hand book shop and found a copy of the old Batsford book The Pirc defence by Nunn.
Theory has obviously moved on as it has Six chaprters on the Austrian and nothing on the 150 attack back then they used to play f3 then Bishop e3
Enjoy old books though, looking for old forgotten ideas, what can I expect to be meeting most of the time?
May 20, 2017
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#58
JEH wrote:
There is a way to play against the Pirc called the '150 Attack'. You play e4, d4, Nc3, Be3, Qd2, Nf3, Bd3. So pieces are developed, centre protected, easy to remember so far as Black probably won't have done anything to disturb you. Now you castle Queenside, Play Bh6, take the Black Bishop on g7, play h4, h5, hxg, opening the h gile for your rook, Play Qh6 and then it's mate. Easy!
Err, ok, so Black gets some moves too, and it's not that easy (otherwise nobody would play the Pirc), but you've got a plan, and unless Black has you can win almost as easy as this. So Black will come at you with moves like e5 or c5 or c6/b5/b4 to attack your King, but you've got a good position to play from in any case.
I like this idea. Playing a kingside pawn storm I think was also meant to be said that goes along with this plan. I might pick up this opening as well.
I know this is an old thread, but as a Pirc player I often find it hard to play when there's something white on f5. If Black went for a fianchetto, wedge a pawn in there. If not, a knight is better.
Well, I only know that Karpov played e4 after 1. d4 d6, so this shouldn't be such a killer defence. Sometimes the white player overestimate white's space advantages and is not careful concerning strategical nuances. Both the classical and the fianchetto variations do not take too much theory to study and are sound.