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Pirc Defence 1.e4 d6 2.d4 Nf6 3.Nc3 g6 · you play black
8 chapters, 8 moves deep, get you to 90% of what you will actually meet. The other 3 cover the last 7%.
Course progress
0 of 143 decisions
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Chapter 1
1.e4 d6 2.d4 Nf6 3.Nc3 g6 4.f4
21% of what you meet · 36 decisions · 3 studies
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Chapter 2
1.e4 d6 2.d4 Nf6 3.Nc3 g6 4.Be3
21% of what you meet · 31 decisions · 4 studies
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Chapter 3
1.e4 d6 2.d4 Nf6 3.Nc3 g6 4.Nf3
19% of what you meet · 39 decisions · 5 studies
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Chapter 4
1.e4 d6 2.d4 Nf6 3.Nc3 g6 4.Bg5
12% of what you meet · 12 decisions
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Chapter 5
1.e4 d6 2.d4 Nf6 3.Nc3 g6 4.f3
7% of what you meet · 1 decision
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Chapter 6
1.e4 d6 2.d4 Nf6 3.Nc3 g6 4.g3
4% of what you meet · 13 decisions
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Chapter 7
1.e4 d6 2.d4 Nf6 3.Nc3 g6 4.Be2
3% of what you meet · 8 decisions
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Chapter 8
1.e4 d6 2.d4 Nf6 3.Nc3 g6 4.h3
3% of what you meet · 3 decisions
3 more chapters are below the depth for your level, together 7% of what you meet.
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16 plies of this opening
Your moves are chosen by the engine and checked against 3,439,091 games (Lichess Elite (2500+ vs 2300+), 2024-12 → 2025-11); their replies are what people actually play. Evaluations from Lichess Stockfish evaluations (database.lichess.org) (CC0 1.0 Universal), covering 87% of this course.