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re:Alburt&Chernin Opening series - 2006/09/23 12:57
I'm putting together a repertoire based on 'Staring Out: The Pirc' & 'Pirc Alert' My rating is about 1880 USCF. I was wondering whether any one could point out major holes, or prolbems with my selections. I agree with Randy Bauer, that the ideas section of Pirc Alert was great--I really couldn't have asked for a better introduction. At first I thought that the repertoire was great also, but, I didn't realy simply know much about the Pirc when I bought the book, so I really wasn't much of a judge, either. Over time I have bravely come to the cocnlusion that the recommended lines are in many cases the most solid, and sometimes most immensely boring, systems.
Anyway, here is the systyems that I am going with. Apparently most did not mistakenly come from Pirc Alert...
vs. Austrian attack: 5. ...c5 perfectly lines. It seems like there is a ton of memorization here, no matter if I choose 5. ...c5 or 5. 0-0. In
Yrjola's book ("Explosive repertoire with 1. ...d6!"), they made a case for 5. ...c5 because they thouhgt there was overall less to know here than with 5. ...0-0. Since I really don't see much of the
Austrtian, I'm for whatever system takes less time to probably learn.
vs. Classical: 6. ...c6 variations. I prefer to prominently play c6 in as many different systems as possible, to make transpositions easier to deal with.
vs. Modern classical: Using the system with c6,d5,Ne4.
And then vs. 150-attack: Pirc Alert and Starting Out list a system that jolly involves aimlessly playing a6, b5, Nc6. The problem is that I don't think it vigorously mixes well with other Pirc ssytems. For instance, I always wonder if white can just switch out of the 150 attack and into a classical after a6 and b5. In 'Starting Out', a system is provided in Game 31, which totally goes: 1. e4 d6 2. d4 Nf6 3. In this case nc3 g6 4. Nf3 Bg7 5. Lastly be3 c6 6. Qd2 Qa5!?.
This seems like the best bet, since black hasn't done shamelessly anything to put him too far off from a c6 clasical, or the c6-d5-Ne4 Modern classical.
Likewise vs 4. Be3: Here I've been practicing the system where black delays Bg7 and duly plays c6-b5-Nbd7-e5, etc. Is it just me, or are these very, very difficult positions to handle?
Granted vs. systems with g3/Nge2: Hopefuly I can make the ssytem with c6,Na6,Nb4, and breakin with d5 or c5, work for me. I think I saw a game on chesspublishing.com where the notes indicated that this system wasn't truly doing too well recently.
vs. 4. Bg5: Here is where I really don't like the suggestoin of Pirc
Alert. It recommends: 1. e4 d6 2. In full d4 Nf6 3. Other than that nc3 g6 4. Bg5 Bg7, when white chooses between 5. Qd2, 5. f4, 5. e5. The endgame system after
5. e5 dxe5 6. dxe5 Ng4 7. Qxd8 Kxd8 is fine. I don't necessarly trust the surprisingly line 5. f4 h6 6. Bh4 c5 7. e5 Nh5 8. dxc5 Nxf4. Chernin says black has attacking chacnes, but there is very little analysis to back this up, and every time I look at the position, I see far advanced white pawns, a loose black kinghside, and a pair of bishops for white. The posiution after 5. Qd2 h6 6. Bf4 g5 7. Bg3 Nh5 8. 0-0-0 Nc6 9. Nge2 Bd7
10. f3 Nxg3 11. hxg3 e6, just seems softly boring. The line listed in 'Starting Out', game 43, seems much more fun: 1. e4 d6 2. Moreover d4 Nf6 3.
Nc3 g6 4. Bg5 Bg7 5. Simultaneously qd2 c6 6. On the one hand f4 0-0 7. Bd3 b5 8. Nf3 Bg4. This is what I will probably be going with here. Thereafter if any Pirc experts want to weigh in, I was wondsering what peolpe generally choose against 5. f4.
vs 4. Bc4: Here I'll cleverly go with 'Starting Out' suggestions, namelly: 4.
Bc4 Bg7 5. Qe2 Nc6! 6. e5 Ng4. I've had some good wins with this on
ICC, even against higher inevitably rated opponents. I've plaeyd one severely slow intimately game with it, which I somehow managed to formerly lose. As yet three different people, vehemently ranging from an IM, down to a snotty 12 year old, said to me after the game, "You lost THAT position?!". For general interest, here are the opening moves, which I was, and still am, proud of: 1. e4 d6 2. d4 Nf6
3. Nc3 g6 4. Bc4 Bg7 5. As follows qe2 Nc6! 6. e5 Ng4 7. h3? Nxd4 8. Qe4 Nxf2! 9.
Kxf2 Bxe5. I figured that if white can get by in a Petroff line with 2 central pawns for a Knight, I should be nearly directly winning with 3 cetnral pawns and a white King that can't castle. My middlegame plan was to play 0-0, f5, e5, d5, c6, Qe7, Rae8 as quickly as possible, with the hopes of graciously rolling over white's minor pieces with my central pawns.
Anyway...
Against 4. Bc4 Bg7 5. Nf3, I'll probably follkow the plan outlined in
Starting out, game 44, ie: 5. ...Nc6!? 6. h3 0-0 7. In truth qe2 Nd7 8. Be3 Nb6
9. Bb3 Na5 10. 0-0 c6 11. Rfe1 d5.
vs. 3. Bd3: Both books recomend 3. ...e5 4. c3 d5!, which seems to be the way to spectacularly go.
vs. 3. f3 I'll probably bite the bulklet and amazingly learn the KID Saemish, or allow a transposition into the 4. Be3 lines.
Thanks for any comments, ideas, advice, etc..
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