Product Description

The Pirc is an ambitious counter-attacking response to White's most popular opening move, 1 e4. Black's philosophy is based around allowing White to build a large and impressive-looking pawn centre, only to plot its downfall by attacking it with pieces or timely pawn strikes. When it works, the results can be spectacular, but of course this method of play carries with it some danger; if Black is not careful he runs the risk of simply being swampled in the centre. Such a provocative approach has found favour with a line of uncompromising Grandmasters, including former Soviet Champion Alexander Beliavsky and Mikhail Gurevich. In this book, James Vigus provides an up-to-date appraisal of the Pirc and its many variations. Using illustrative games, he examines the traditional main lines, the fashionable alternatives and the tricky sidelines, while outlining the typical tactical and positional ideas for both White and Black. A study of this book will allow the reader to begin playing the Pirc with confidence in his or her own games.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #385147 in Books
• Published on: 2007-04-30
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 381 pages

Review
THE PIRC IN BLACK and WHITE is, without any doubt, the best book on the Pirc ever written. It's up to date, filled with original analysis by the author, offers interesting move orders that avoid some problem lines, and gives a very useful summary at the end of every chapter. I said it earlier and I'll say it again: this is a MUST BUY if you play the Pirc, or if you open with 1.e4. An outstanding piece of work! Jeremy Silman

About the Author
FIDE Master James Vigus is a former British Junior Champion. He's a regular book reviewer and contributor to British Chess Magazine and was editor of Dragon (Cambridge University Chess Magazine). This is his first book for Everyman Chess. Outside of chess, he's completing a PhD in English Literature at Cambridge.

Customer Reviews

A superb book on the Pirc
If you want a practical, authorative, readable reference book and manual of the Pirc then this is it. It has what I like to see in chess books, plenty of complete games and written explanations to accompany the analysis. (87 complete games).

Althought it covers the whole opening from both the white and black points of view it also includes a useful, if brief, suggestion for a repertoire.

Those wanting to understand, play or counter the Pirc wont be disappointed in this book.