omg!! Jonathan I am sooo honored! big fan of your i am soo happy to have this beautiful ideas in my repertoire! much love wish you the best!

"This is how really strong, prepared players would play" GM Moro182: "Ouch"

Ok, I'm never staying till the end of the video ever again.

As a pirc Player myself, ive encountered this line many Times, instead of trading Queens Black can play Ng4 instantly. After QxQd8 KxQd8 and 0-0-0 or Rd1+ Black is fine after Bd7

What's weird isn't that he missed the mate in 1, but that the GM missed it and didn't play differently

Thanks for this trap! I've used it a few times now already and I'm surprised how often this occurs.

Damn. He got lucky. The GM almost bounced back twice.

Love the OG track. And here I was expecting a mere rendition of "Pirc on the Ground"

Oh no.. now grandmasters will know how we can beat them and they'll be prepared... What have you done!!1 :D Great video, thanks!)

As a learning Pirc player this is an important line to know, thanks. Looking at videos on the Pirc, most seem to say the Byrne is one of the weaker variations.

I laughed out loud 🤣 at that new track announcement! That tune rocks! Nice video - Subscribed

Dear Jonathan, you are an excellent Master and through your channel, you give us fans very good teachings, and I hope you will soon reach 100,000 subscribers, I did not know the Gambit. I am very happy to be able to enjoy your teachings, I live in Argentina, I am a doctor and I admire the strength and tenacity that you put into your teaching vocation.

This is exactly what not so experienced players need to improve their rating. So many thanks for this video and I am watching the next ones :)

Thank you GM Jonathan for this amazing video. I actually tested this against my opponent in one of my games and he fell for this trap. I guess it works most of the time

I just actually did this like yesterday with backrank checkmate before I watch this! Awesome

wow this is one of the best trappiest lines ive seen in a while

Jonathan ur content is so unique. Awesome

Loved the track tho😂😂

Thank you very much for this contribution. Since I always play the Pirc defense, this is an interesting line to have in my repertoire now. The retreat (after e5 dxe5 ...dxe5) ....Nd7 is certainly the best solution (min in stream 5:47). After Nd5, ...Bxe5, Nf3 and then the subsequent solution of the problem ...e6, After the white Night hits Nxe5, ...exd5. Here black has no real disadvantages.

Good way to avoid all that bs is when white puts bishop on g5, don't move your bishop and just play queenside to counterattack the center xD. If they move queen and bisop again, they lose tempo.

watched til the end, was hoping the gift would be a video on the Qe8 line in the leningrad dutch defence, but i'm quite content with your new single too

A beautiful game with a tricky line hitting the knight by move Bg5 followed by tactical moves.

Sick track, for a sick opening!

Niceee, great find john!!!

Thank you for this!!

More videos plzz,..i viewed almost all ur videos here n KZfaq, specially Chess opening explained,..thanks to ur videos,its helpful,..

That looks like the best line against pirc.

Oooh I love learning new traps ❤️

great video!!! im watching the hit single at the moment. great prize

sweet trap. Loved the video!

Hey Jonathan great insight as always

When white plays two pawns in the center then black delays castling and plays c6, followed by either Nd7 or counter-attacking with Bg4 (when white knight gets out). Black can also counter-attack the white bishop at g6.

“Grab this knight on a8”. LOL. Ok, I learned something. 😁. Great video. And thanks for correctly pronouncing the name of this openg.

4:32 many pirc players like myself will castle other side if we see that you want to trade bishops

I use this trap all the time! I actually used it twice in the same tournament a few years ago successfully against higher rated opponents.

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It's more or less the same idea for the trap in the Averbakh variation of the King's indian

Cool man thanks!

"a 1900 beat a gm with this" so your telling me gms dont even know this stuff but my 1100 opponent last night who dropped 14 lines of pure theory and only took him 5 seconds of thinking on each move does? interesting

Good to know thank you 🙏

am gonna try it thanks for the trap

As a Pirc player I am exceedingly mad, indeed

Would love if you did a video on Boden-Keiseritzky-Morphy Gambit. It's in line with your Bishop's Opening repertoire of gambits.

hahahaha great Music! think i should stick with the Czech Pirc thx 4 video

Would have been good to have a display of who is ahead during the game (assuming that's possible on Lichess?)

i was planning to play 4 pawn attack against pirc (my irl rival plays pirc) but might try this

YES! I made it to the end of the video. Bonus time ... Oh no! A "hit" single ;-) great content

According to almost all computer analysis Bg5 followed by Bg7 is almost an even game. e5 is the dubious move. exd5 was not the error but instead Qxd1+ was the error, instread Ng4 was the correct move with computers rating the position as +.4. 5...nfd7 is rated at +.2 by computers. I think the issue was the GM played something that led to the Pirc where he wasn't prepared. Players that love the Pirc will know the right counter to e5 and actually will have a decent chance of winning. Just my 2 cents.

Just won a game just like this

oh look, it's PIRC Pierce? no PIRC that's what i said, pierce no, PIRC yeah, pierce.... it pierces defenses. No, PIRC is a defense uh, piercing is offense not here, it's a trap

I'm so glad I watched this. Ok no more pirc for me . Thamkyou

Thanks Jonathan Just won a game with this idea

We need a intro music for the videos.

Nice try Mr Schranz. 98% sure you almost rick rolled me.

So is the trick for black to develop slightly different than knight f6? Just make some pawn moves like c6 and g6 to feel out opponent?

Jonathan, hope you paid man who wrote this genious hit

nice trap but you don't mention black's best defence ! black equalizes with 6...Ng4 ! instead of Qxd1. but indeed in that position it's almost a reflex to play Qxd1? to avoid losing castling rights

1900 and blundered mate in 1 I feel that tho def insane nerves against a gm

Nice video!!

Nice, got the position on the first try. They just resigned after 8. h3 Nxe5 9. Nd5

6:04 Would it be possible to play Nxe7 and the king can't defend the bishop because of discovered check if Kd8, so they would play Nb6, in which after Nxc8 Nxc8 you play Rd8 mate

I wish I saw this video before. I learned this trap in bad way a few days ago :)

I played this in a tournament and I heard the guy go "He's playing weird" under his breath. I proceeded to win the game easily

had a similar mate in a game of mine today!

For those lucky to survive a nuclear war, you get a painful daily fight for survival.

I have fallen for this many times in bullet but in longer games I never will

I'll crush my teachers opening prep against d4 here thx

this is nasty, just checkmated someone in 11 moves with it. Thanks!

This worked perfectly up to move ten when I captured his knight with Bxa6. At that point my black opponent castled, O-O. So, what’s the best response for white?

I learn an opening for weeks then Jonathan pops up. How to beat this opening in a few moves.

Komodo Dragon played ng4 and not QXQ on move 6. Queen gets you into trouble. when white goes 7. QXQ KXQ 8.Rd1+ Bd7 9. e6 pxp 10 Nf3 Ne5. I really think black will be ok now by Ng4

This reminds of yassr seriewn lecture on pirc defense

Damn I forgot this one

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Learn your weakness -Pircplayer

Any time the black queen leaves her original post, the C7 pawn is always super vulnerable. Whenever queens are traded early, I always obsess about defending and attacking the queen's bishop pawn.

do u have a fide rating?

I mean, the game was a blitz, and the grandmaster used berserker... Definitely not the best example to proof the efficiency of the trap

Sure. Make my default 1.e4 response even LESS effective. Thanks.🤣

Rare is the key for this one.

great video

Lmao, i played against the pirc defense like an hour ago, then watched this video. Now I get another pirc defense and get the 12 move checkmate from this video

Literally first game I played after this video I won with this trap. That’s crazy

Very informative because most of players used this pirc

A signle, ty

Similar concept to the Levenfish trap

The thing is... I have already been taught not to exchange queens as black. Rather I play Ng4! it seems strange but it is very defendable

Please cover Icelandic gambit

This is the second time i watch this video, it’s really great

That song was about to go fire and ended...

yay I haven't seen this yet.

Just wanted to thank you for the video. I recently found out I won over 200 games in this line online 😅

Looks like GM was not well prepared. I play Pirc by default. In non-Byrne versions Q exchange after e5 usually favours Black but we know not to use it here. Also we know at 6.06 the move is e6, counter-attacking N for B, not Bd6. Having said that, Byrne IS one of the trickier variations for B - W still retains some advantage, but not enough to easily overcome someone who plays Pirc regularly.

9:27 NEW SONG "STINKS"

lol good one jonathan

Viced Rhino, is that you?

Nice trick...

BARS

Yes

Missing a mate in one. Whenever you see a good move there is often a better move.