The Perfect Pirc-Modern: Strategic Ideas & Powerful Weapons Paperback – March 16, 2013

The author has a fine product here and the diagrams and text moves are bold and easy to see. The most important, modern analysis of the Pirc-Modern is covered here as well as illustrative games, an index of players and games, etc.. The author is most kind to provide photos of some of the top grandmasters, including the GM's of today, which should serve to inspire many players and readers. Over 250 pages of variations, games, index, table of contents and players, etc..

Moskalenko is clear in this effort.You play the Pirc/Modern for a win not a draw. I have played the Pirc/Modern for a long time and find this an excellent book. Recommend it completely for the devotee and tthe novice "RAT" player as Duncan Suttles called it. I recommend this book highly and a book by Cyrus Lakdawala,"The Modern Defence: Move by Move" and his companion book,"d6:Move by Move". All three are lovly books and I can say they have increased my winning percentage in my local club.

This is an excellent book on the Pirc with just a little on the Modern. I would have liked to see more coverage of the Modern.The reason for four stars is that there are way to many side lines for my liking. Sometimes I had to turn thru several pages then back again trying to find the mainline which was lost in all of the variations. This could be done better.

Im happy

Wow! I've been playing chess for several years and have read a handful of chess books on opening theory. To summarize this review in short, skip this book and head straight to the online database where you can explore engine lines on your own or get a different book.The explanations behind the moves in this book are sparse and usually very generic. Also, in the middle of reviewing example games he inserts large textbooks with primarily, you guessed it, engine lines. Not only are data dumps of engine lines rather useless in a world where we have stockfish and online databases at at fingertips but they are also very distracting from the example games he's trying to show us.He inserts other textboxes which he calls "Tricks." One example reads: "9. c3? Qg4!" That's it! Nothing more! Zero, I mean ZERO explanation. Yes, I know how to read chess annotations but the author's comments are no better than looking at example games on your own with an online database and using stockfish. Again, the textboxes are rather distracting and useless.I was reading the chapter on the Byrne variation 4. Bg5 which is a very important line in this system. The author's explanation goes as follows: " The arising lines rather resemble the typical positional Torre systems with Bg5." Then he follows with a couple of equally useless bullet points. I have no idea what the Torre system is. Why doesn't the author explain these "positional systems" instead of directing me to see another entirely different opening? I don't care about the Torre system. I care about the Pirc. That's why I bought this book.Sorry, this is not it. I have no idea how this book got so many positive reviews. Find a different book to learn the Pirc Defense unless you want very watered down insight coupled with engine line after engine line.

Excellent coverage that is more extensive than Lev Alburt's "Pirc Alert"

Excellent

challenging

Eu gosto muito desse livro. Excelente!

Great book, good analysis of main lines on both sides. Ideal to play the Pirc.

ich bin sehr zufrieden mit dem schachbuch. es bringt mir neue anregungen und hilft mir meine spielstärke zu steigern. lieferzeit war auch gut.

a very well written and instructive book that cover a lot of theory and ideas for club players and stronger players

Da ich die Pirc-Eröffnung als Hauptantwort auf 1.e4 spiele und Bücher sehr mag habe ich natürlich auch dieses gekauft. Zusammenfassend ist es sicher das schwächste Pirc-Buch, das ich besitze. Einerseits liefert es kaum Inhalte für Pirc Anfänger da die Ideen nicht komplett ausgeführt werden. Hier ist z.B. Alburt (Pirc Alert) bzw. Vigus (Pirc in Black and White) wesentlich besser. Für meinen Geschmack ist Alburt am Besten weil er sehr viel Zeit auf Ideen verwendet und erst im zweiten Teil auf Varianten einsteigt - seine Zentrumsänderungen zu Philidor sind wohl nicht jedermanns Sache. Vigus geht eher in Beispielpartien und das mag ich weniger (andere hingegen mehr). Trends findet man sehr gut in Vigus (Pirc Development), etwas weniger in Palliser (Dangerous Weapons). Aber hier drinnen habe ich gar nichts gefunden. Störend sind auch die Bilder (Stier und Matador, Napoleonische Schlachten etc. - nur weil der Dreibauernangriff "Austrian Attack" heißt) da der Zusammenhang mit der Partie eigentlich nicht gegeben ist und irgendwie nur die Seitenzahl erhöht wird. Ein Diagramm mehr an dieser Stelle wäre besser gewesen.