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The Perfect Pirc-Modern - New Edition 10 Years Later - Viktor Moskalenko (K-6303)
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Strategic Ideas and Powerful Weapons
The Pirc Defence and the Modern Defence are two naturally entwined chess openings that are both flexible and rich in strategic and tactical ideas. They feature in the repertoire of great players like Grischuk, Ivanchuk, Nakamura and Carlsen.
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| Author / Authors | Victor Moskalenko |
| Publisher | New In Chess |
| Year of Publication | 2nd edition 2023 |
| Pages | 256 |
| ISBN | 9789083336664 |
| Hardcover | No |
| Paperback | Yes |
| Downloadable | No |
| Width | 17 cm / 6.69 inch |
| Height | 23.5 cm / 9.25 inch |
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In The Perfect Pirc-Modern, Viktor Moskalenko, a renowned propagator of dynamic chess who has championed the Pirc-Modern for many years, explains:
- the ideas and plans that matter
- the various pawn structures and how to handle them
- tricky transpositions: opportunities and risks
- a wealth of new resources for both Black and White.
- In this updated version of Moskalenko’s 2013 book of the same name, 33 of the 42 games are new, the structure has been updated in places, and there are fresh ideas on every page.
Moskalenko expertly guides you through this ground-breaking opening book with the enthusiasm, ease and humour that characterize his style.
Viktor Moskalenko (1960) is an International Grandmaster and a well-known chess coach. The former Ukraine champion has won many tournaments in Spain, his current home country. For New In Chess, he wrote, among others, The Fabulous Budapest Gambit (2007), Revolutionize Your Chess (2009), The Diamond Dutch (2014), Training with Moska (2017), The Fully-Fledged French (2021) and Trompowsky Attack & London System (2022).
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Content
006 Explanation of symbols
007 The Perfect Pirc-Modern - ten years later
008 Foreword by Vasyl Ivanchuk
009 Introduction
012 Seven symbols
013 Chapter 1 - The Austrian Attack: Introduction
021 Chapter 2 - The Austrian Attack with 5. ..c5
054 Chapter 3 - The Austrian Attack with 5. ..0-0
117 Chapter 4 - The flexible move 4.Be3
168 Chapter 5 - The dynamic bishop attack 4.Bg5
197 Chapter 6 - White´s fianchetto: 4.g3
211 Chapter 7 - The classical 4.Nf3
225 Chapter 8 - Anti-Pirc systems - Miscellaneous Ideas
243 Index of variations
247 Index of names
254 Bibliography
255 A brief biography