Sound Aggressive Opening for Black or an Alternative for Pirc.

I have been playing Pirc for quite sometime now but I feel it gets difficult to be in decent positions with easy planning if oppenent is slightly stronger. I have been literally out of moves sometimes. So I am looking for advice should I switch to other defense or should try to learn in more depth to get better grasp over it.

Best thing in this condition you can do is to stop playing

What position are you struggling with?

And/or what position are you running out of moves?

I want to see the line you speak of!

You really have to decide for yourself....

I mean, when the position gets worse, is it because of the defence or your play? I suspect in all the main opening, and even in the "marginal" ones, players at our general level use, the problem is simply the failure to find decent moves. Try using the review or copy/pasting the PGN to Lichess and reviewing.

Pirc is not an easy opening. And I would not call it agressive. Quite contrary, Black is usally on the receivng part of a strong attack.

If you want an agressive opeinig for Black, try sicilian defence it is renowned for it's attacking chances.

Or try open games. I think that black's chances of taking over the initive in open game are underestimated. However one needs to know a number of middlegame plans.

You are best off going with one of the 4 strongest responses. Any king pawn opening that allows White to maintain pawns on e4 and d4 for any length of time is dubious at best.

I would suggest looking at the "Big 4" and switching to and studying whichever one makes the most sense to you.

Those 4 responses are:

1...e5, 1...c5 - These don't allow White to maintain a big center because d4 will be immediately captured by the pawn.

1...e6, 1...c6 - Both of these put the question to the e-pawn rather than the d-pawn. White will have to protect it with a piece, after which Black can eliminate the e-pawn, exchange the pawn, which leaves White with only 1 center Pawn, or advance it, after which White loses all control of the central light squares.

Now unlike many beginners here, I am not going to preach that one is better than the other. For one person, maybe the middle game positions from the Sicilian make the most sense. For someone else, it may be the Caro-Kann. For me, it is the French. Etc.

All that I will say is that the other 16 moves are all weaker. To varying degrees, like 1...d6 is clearly better than 1...f5, but all 16 moves are weaker than the big 4 (e5, e6, c5, c6).

Personally I'd recommend the sicilian but any of those 4 suggestions above are good ones.

There's nothing the sicilian can't do - if you want a rare line to throw the opponent off, maybe you don't want to get out-theorized... there are many odd sicilians, like the nimzowitsch, which is really an improved alekhines... completely viable and underplayed. And there are even stranger ones. If you want an objectively sound line... there's the Najdorf or Sveshnikov. If you want... to beat the opponent on knowledge of theory, if you want to play a scrappy game, if you want to bring the pressure early, if you want chaos or order, if you want positional or tactical... whatever you want there is a sicilian for it. This is why I really love the sicilian... with e4 it's generally going to be a sharp theoretical tactical game, with the french... well it's going to be the same old french. But with the sicilian there is really no limit. And the important decision making is up to black, black chooses the mainline... and there are many options... different than the caro or french or e4/e5 where white basically chooses the mainline.

Furthermore... sicilian greatly contributes to your ability to handle the English (1. c4 e5) and the Reti (1. Nf3 c5). Making you free to play whatever you want against 1. d4 without even worrying about how it handles the English / Reti, etc.