Kornev: Practical Black Repertoire with Nf6, g6, d6 - Vol.1: English, Pirc, Reti metadata-enriched Smith shows that a practical

Smith shows that a practical repertoire can also be a grandmaster repertoire – it is all about understanding the positional themes and plans

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Kornev: Practical Black Repertoire with Nf6, g6, d6 - Vol.1: English, Pirc, Reti metadata-enriched Smith shows that a practicalA Practical Black Repertoire with Nf6, g6, d6 Volume 1: English, Pirc, Reti and Other DefencesContents In this volume we consider the Pirc Defence (Chapters 10 27). It has definite advantages in comparison to other openings. At first, it has not been analysed so thoroughly, since the White fans of 1. e2 e4 devote the lion's share of their time to study the Sicilian Defence and the Open Games. Secondly, Black can play not only to equalise, but he can