Originally posted by Dutch Defense the Pirc is worse than the Modern Defense (1...g6). I'm playing that right now and I'm getting smoked by everyone 😳
whatever happened with the latvian gambit?
and anyway, if you get desperate, you can always try Caro-Kann...
it's got to have a draw percentage second only to Petroff's.
very solid for black indeed...then again, we ARE playing 1. e4, so you could always go with Petroff's...
but 1. ... c6 avoids the King's Gambit.. which is a bonus. 🙂
Originally posted by Dutch Defense the Pirc is worse than the Modern Defense (1...g6). I'm playing that right now and I'm getting smoked by everyone 😳
Ever think it might be possible that you're playing the Pirc wrong? Let's see some examples.
Originally posted by rubberjaw30 whatever happened with the latvian gambit?
and anyway, if you get desperate, you can always try Caro-Kann...
it's got to have a draw percentage second only to Petroff's.
very solid for black indeed...then again, we ARE playing 1. e4, so you could always go with Petroff's...
but 1. ... c6 avoids the King's Gambit.. which is a bonus. 🙂
I only play the Latvian about once for every eight games or so right now.
1.E4 D5! (2.pxp ktf6) learning it myself at the moment. the actual lines are easy to learn as they are mainly the ones you would assume and the theory is easy to too.
I sorta misread your original post wrong I guess. See I thought you were playing the Pirc now and getting smoked. The Pirc and the Modern have very similar themes, but they're both plenty solid if you play them right. I'll look at the Modern ones you posted and see if I can find where you f'ed up. 😉
Well I just skimmed through game one and there are two glaring mistakes.
First, I don't get 6...a6 Is that book? It seems like a wasted move in that position, you're not developed at all. And, of course, 18...f4 that's an important tactic to miss, after that you're in deep sheiste.
You can only really blame yourself there, not the opening.