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Viceroy Full Member Offline Posts: 123 Joined: 08/18/05 Gender:	Re: Famous players and the Pirc Reply #8 - 09/10/05 at 08:03:17	Post Tools	Print Post
	Thanks for the answers. You guys really know your chess! 8)


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lnn2 God Member Offline Posts: 1504 Location: nc Joined: 09/22/04	Re: Famous players and the Pirc Reply #7 - 09/09/05 at 10:48:05	Post Tools	Print Post
	Azmaiparashvili is absolutely amazing. He is probably the only person who can maintain a 2670+ elo sticking to the modern, pirc and philidor.


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alumbrado God Member Offline Esse quam videri bonus malebo Posts: 1418 Location: London Joined: 02/17/03 Gender:	Re: Famous players and the Pirc Reply #6 - 09/09/05 at 06:16:36	Post Tools	Print Post
	It was of course Donner who became the first GM to lose toa Chinese player when Liu Wen-Zhe smashed him up in the 'Chinese Attack' (1.e4 d6 2.d4 Nf6 3.Nc3 g6 4.Be2 Bg7 5.g4!?). But of course we do not need this thread to recount tales of Dutch sporting ignominy ... there is the football thread in the Chit Chat section for that

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MNb God Member Offline Rudolf Spielmann forever Posts: 10756 Location: Moengo Joined: 01/05/04 Gender:	Re: Famous players and the Pirc Reply #5 - 09/09/05 at 06:07:50	Post Tools	Print Post
	Dutch GM's Donner and Jeroen Piket - the latter only in his early days.

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Andrew Brett Guest	Re: Famous players and the Pirc Reply #4 - 09/09/05 at 05:41:25	Post Tools	Print Post
	Smsylov , I 'd forgotten about Viktor Korchnoi. He had a great win against Fisher in the Be2 Austrian , but as you rightly point out the world championship match he lost in 1978, the final game was a Classical Pirc Regards Andrew


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Smyslov_Fan God Member Correspondence fan Offline Progress depends on the unreasonable man. ~GBS Posts: 6902 Joined: 06/15/05	Re: Famous players and the Pirc Reply #3 - 09/08/05 at 12:07:07	Post Tools	Print Post
	While Fischer did indeed use the Pirc once as a surprise in the World Championship, Korchnoi deserves the credit for relying on it against Karpov in World Championship play. He got reasonable, but slightly inferior positions with it. In fact, Karpov's play helped to convince me that the Pirc is ultimately not quite viable at the very highest levels.


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Andrew Brett Guest	Re: Famous players and the Pirc Reply #2 - 09/08/05 at 08:41:29	Post Tools	Print Post
	Fischer used it once against Spassky's Austrian attack in the World Championship Petrosian in the 1970s played a few games with it and Botvinnink as well, although I'm not sure off the top of my head whether these arose out of the Modern move order. Topalov got smashed by Kasparov in a very famous game-poss a game of the century. But in terms of regulars, Speelman, Nunn, M Gurevich, Timman,Seirawan,Chernin, Azmairaparashivili (I've probably mispelt his name !!) and in the past but not so much today Van Wely played it before he switched to the Sicilian Famous players and experts may be two different categories and as stated above there is an inevitable overlap between Modern/ Pirc move orders. Best wishes Andrew


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alumbrado God Member Offline Esse quam videri bonus malebo Posts: 1418 Location: London Joined: 02/17/03 Gender:	Re: Famous players and the Pirc Reply #1 - 09/08/05 at 08:37:43	Post Tools	Print Post
	Many have used it as an occasional weapon (Botvinnik, Fischer, Korchnoi) but few have had it as the backbone of their Black repertoire. Timman, Seirawan and Nunn played it a lot in the 1980s. Anand has also played it, although is now very much a 1...e5 or 1...c5 man. Khalifman and Chernin continue to wheel it out fairly regularly. And Azmaiparashvili, who used it to beat Karpov in a famous game, is an acknowledged authority on it.

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Viceroy Full Member Offline Posts: 123 Joined: 08/18/05 Gender:	Famous players and the Pirc 09/08/05 at 08:09:08	Post Tools	Print Post
	Which famous players use/used the Pirc?


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