Back on topic, I've been investigating the other line recommended by Vigus against the Dzindzi stuff, and that is the line that bascially transposes back to the Be2 Classical with black playing c6.
The line is:
1. e4 d6 2. d4 Nf6 3. Nc3 g6 4. Nf3 Bg7 5. h3 O-O 6. Be3 c6 7. a4 Nbd7 8. Be2 Qc7 9. 0-0 b6
Now in Chess Openings for White Explained p453, Dzindzi has 10. Re1!
What does Vigus recommend? Well in Game 56, p244 top left, they refer you back to game 53 ). Now here, on p230, we have 10. Qd2 and 10. Nd2 (from Die Pirc Die) covered, but no 10. Re1.
Oh the joy of Pirc transpositions, I'm having a nightmare keeping my Chessbase Repetoire base in step
Well we've transposed out of the anti-ADP chapter into one which doesn't cover it, so I won't be too hard on the author for missing this one.
So is this a score for Roman? If you stick the position after 9. ...b6 in to the Megabase 2009 reference search, you get 15 games (NB due to transpositons it's difficult to be sure this is a real count). 7 black wins, 7 draws, and 1 white win
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The only White win is Furman - Dzindzichashvilli, Riga 1975 (oh, err sorry, no more cheap shots). Possibly though, this might be a clue where Roman got 10. Re1 from, as this is what Furman played against him.
Rybka likes White. This is typical.
The human eye likes White. But Black scores well. This is also the typical Pirc paradox
Looking at 10. Re1 Bb7 12. Qd2 I kind of agree that White seems to keep the edge here. There's a lot of variations not covered here, and some intestesting stuff to explore.
Game stats asside, it seems to me that a6 can run into problems and e5 can run into problems, so what is Black to do? Well the best seems to be to wait with Rad8, and play these moves later.
I found a good game ref for this which got here by transposition, Handoku-Jiangchuan, Jakarta 1996 (attached)
Note the comment from King...
"White achieves a superficial initiative on the kingside, but Black beats it off with accurate defence. Once again the knight manoeuvres are worth noting. the retreat of the knight to g8 from f6 in order to cover the h6 and f6 squares is a common and effective manoeuvre. (It is
ironic that in order to defend the f6 square, the knight must move from f6)."
There is even a missed win for Black with 46. ...Nc3