I love Yasser Seirawan! Not only does he describe very simply and instructively the complex intricacies of positions, he does it in such a calming and relaxing way. It's like being at a chess club and a meditation retreat at the same time, all while sitting at my PC eating pizza. Thankyou, Yasser.
I just came here from a Ben Finegold lecture in which he claimed that, right now, Yasser Seirawan is outside picketing and telling everyone not to play the Winawer French, which is the most hilariously incongruous idea ever.
@@stopwritingthatreplyjohnat6638 "he's beaten Kasparov, Karpov, Anthony Miles" One of these players is not like the others. One of these players isn't the same. I'd've gone with Korchnoi, Tal and Spassky, ahead of Miles, and likely Gligoric, Polugayevsky and Portisch, too.
I really like this guy. So humble and kind. I've been watching all of his videos and Kummer's. Used to be really into chess when I was younger but lost the taste for it. Over the past month I became severely addicted. I've been reading Silman's 'assess your chess' book and some terms he was using led me to stumble on these videos. I didn't realize how stupid I was until I started playing chess again. It's just amazing how rusty the brain gets when it rests on its laurels. Please keep up the great work, I enjoy these lectures very much :)
0Pr0ph3t0 My story is almost exactly the same as yours, although mine mebe a little differeny depending on how old you are. I learned to play chess when I was 12 and immediately started playing scholastically. When I was 14 I actually played for the national scholastic championship in my division (which was the lowest rated division LOL) in 1997. It was a 7round tournament and one other player and I were 6-0 g6oing into the final game. I lost to my unrated Cuban opponent who played like a 1900, weaving a beautiful mating net in the middle game. But back then, Kasparov had beaten Deep Blue and computers aren't what they are now. a 333mhz processor was a big deal. So when I stumbled onto the videos I was amazed. I was lucky enough to play GM Dzhidzhihaschvilitz (I know I butchered that) in a similar, but that was it. I couldn't believe I could get free lectures from Yasser, someone I had never heard speak, but I owned and read all of his books. I was stunned. and then when I discovered how chess computers had progressed and how chess engines worked and could evaluate positions and games, I couldn't believe what a fantastic resource they were. So now, after listening to all Yasser and Finegold's lectures, I can honestly say I'm a better player now than I've ever been and I'm improving every day. I played on chess.com and analyze almost all of my games after, even though I'm just playing 5 minute blitz. I'm just trying to get in as many games as I can to try and get a grip on the opening. And it's the computer and these lectures that make that possible. it's truly amazing.
@UCfs7QhlqGI26HgBa51n6JgQ kummer is actually pretty good you dont have to learn from a god always...do what makes you love chess more, even if it means watchig and learning from someone you find funny...not everyone has to learn from hikaru so stfu soyboi
It's amazing how he his able to explain the logic and thought-process behind each move. It's even more impressive when you see how he is able to respond to the suggested moves and questions.
Awesome teacher! Yasser is so easy to understand and very thorough. I can't help but smile when he smiles from the excitement. I could watch Yasser for hours! I can't wait to start using the Pirc defense...
Seirawan used to own or co-own a chess shop in Seattle. They sold a really good low priced tournament chessmen set. I've never found them anywhere else since.
On a rainy day and my best chess buddy has been hospitalized for nearly 11 months, I find listening to the Gentle Giant of chess most comforting. Thank you, Lord, for this angelic human being!!!😇
Amazing man. Both a gentleman on and of the chessboard. I visited the scholastic centre and by chance he was there. Very humble behind great coaching tips. Great hospitality by ALL and by luck a grandmaster there gave me the great chess tip . . " Its not often WHAT chess books you study but HOW you study the chess books that will aid your chess development"
From about 15m... "And the amazing thing is I usually won against myself, which is (like) really hard to do..." I do enjoy listening to Yasser's lectures.
@@biffslamchunk5055: Really? I did not know that. I am Dutch myself, and i can't hear the least trace of Dutch in his accent. Actually, i do not think he has any Dutch roots at all (he was born in Damascus, Syria). The only information i could find, that links him to the Netherlands, is that he is married to Woman FIDE Master Yvette Nagel, daughter of Dutch politician Jan Nagel. And that also surprised me, because i was quite convinced that he was gay :-) Just about everything about him seems to say that ... probably my prejudice. Anyhow, no matter what, i like him and his lectures a lot.
I think that what makes this lecture great is that it is very personal to the yaz. He also puts the opening into a teeter totter analysis which is fun.
I watched this vid cause this guy is hilarious . I tried to apply his ideas in my online games , i lost one game in two days won over 100 online rating !!! From now on Yasser is my guide !!!
This class was very good. I'm a Pirc player and I have to say that in some parts the Engine has better moves for both White and Black. And through my analysis of all the variations of the Pirc, I have to admit that Pirc is a suboptimal defense, however, that also means it is made for those who love to rack their brain. If you really prepare this defense, I assure you that a lot of victories will come to you.
Its a good opening for patient counter attacking players, which is exactly what Yasser is, you don't see it too often at the highest levels because White has such an initiative for a long time straight out of the opening.
This could be a turn in my hopeless-feelings with black as i resigned to play Pirc-Ufimzew. I never had an idea of a counterplay with black and the queen. And for sure, it looks very scary also. I've played very passive and "save" in my younger years, but figured out, there is no hope then and gave up the Pirc. 35:30 Happy about e5, because it is losing a tempo...OK, let's do look at blacks first row. ;-) I think this is very instructive, very good descriptions, i think i will study more of Seirawan's Lectures. Really impressing.
I just followed chess principles and really started playing this opening. I thought i invented something which gets me thru the faster time controls. I was so surprised to know that there exist an actual opening. So i wanted to explore this idea even more and that is how I ended up being here.
Yasser moves around so much that it's impossible to leave the camera stationary and keep him in the left side of the frame so the end product looks good. Otherwise he'd be much too small and keep disappearing behind the board we transpose on the video. Alternatively, you could just move to Saint Louis and start watching these lectures live in person, and the whole problem would be solved for you!
Because after the White bishop takes the black knight on E3, black can take the knight on c3 with the fianchetto'd bishop to c3. If pawn then takes bishop, queen takes the white bishop. If Pawn doesn't take, you have checkmate.
Instead of pawn e5 at 33:24, wouldn't it be possible for bishop d4, forking the queen and the bishop, gaining the missing tempo GM Seirawan mentioned about the pawn move, forcing a trade of black's strong dark squared bishop and weakening black's fortress? Sure, there's a check, letting black's queen slip away from the rook b1 trap (which happens anyway), but that seems like a fairly okay trade, considering black's queen is basically chased all the way back to start, leaving white with a vastly superior development? I have no idea if it'll come back to bite white in the a** or not, but I'd love to hear what GM Seirawan would think about it :)
Part of the history of Northwest chess was Duncan Suttles in Vancouver who played the Modern defence a close relative of the Pirc. A lot of players were influenced by him in that part of the world. Yasser in Seatle was part of that history.
Really appreciate the explanation, but why was the chess board taken down after 38:30? It was somewhat difficult to follow after this point-especially when someone suggested moving the queen side rook to b1.
Yasser is great teacher indeed i purchased a course on chessable it was great, here my concern is the camera operator was probably sleeping and pointing camera some where else away from the action ...after the computer board disappeared it became clear the angle of shooting is very bad.
Could you do the lecture about clumsy rooks? I exactly know what you're talking about and experiencing what you're talking about. I feel like whenever I move my rooks I loose a tempo because it is really unnecessary to move rooks in many situations. I feel like that at least for me. So I stopped moving rooks unless I really have to. I'm not talking about in the endgame. In the endgame you have to move your rooks. I'm talking about in the middlegames and openings. I'm not good at writing, but I hope you know what I'm talking about. Thank you Yasser always. You are an awesome GM. Every lecture really helps my chess and my interest in chess. Best wishes. :)
11:39 castles recommendation is the only one given in Seirawan's Winning Chess Openings. I wonder if he later changed his mind to c5 and if so, at what point in his career he did that.
13:00 instead of capturing the pawn on g6 with h pawn u can capture it with f pawn and u open lines for your rook without being worried about whites rook open h file because now it would be closed because our h pawn is there
Nothing is more embarrassing to me than to mispronounce a key chess term or Grandmaster's name at a tournament and be called on it. It's just "my bad" I guess and shouldn't be a bigger priority than playing well.
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I love Yasser Seirawan! Not only does he describe very simply and instructively the complex intricacies of positions, he does it in such a calming and relaxing way. It's like being at a chess club and a meditation retreat at the same time, all while sitting at my PC eating pizza. Thankyou, Yasser.
He's uncle material alright.
He's also an excellent player, he's beaten Kasparov, Karpov, Anthony Miles. He's a very underrated player
And Yaz never threatened for the world title, didn't even come close. Just a high-level coffeehouse hustler (and GM of course).
I just came here from a Ben Finegold lecture in which he claimed that, right now, Yasser Seirawan is outside picketing and telling everyone not to play the Winawer French, which is the most hilariously incongruous idea ever.
@@stopwritingthatreplyjohnat6638 "he's beaten Kasparov, Karpov, Anthony Miles" One of these players is not like the others. One of these players isn't the same.
I'd've gone with Korchnoi, Tal and Spassky, ahead of Miles, and likely Gligoric, Polugayevsky and Portisch, too.
10 years later this is still an excellent lesson. He explaines it so well, even a beginner like me understands every move.
The fact that Yasser plays the dragon Sicilian just because dragons are sweet makes me loves this guy like 10x more.
The first opening I learned was the Fried Liver because I thought it sounded cool.
@@marianorivera3272 Wow thats most theoretical opening to learn.
such a calming voice to listen to. "The Bob Ross of Chess"
Wes Key-Schitz I was leaning Mr. Rodgers but to the same effect.
Bob Ross was actually a drill sargent who just got tired of yelling at people.
"Happy little pawns."
I agree
For the last 20 minutes the podium is covering the half left side of the white pieces.
I really like this guy. So humble and kind. I've been watching all of his videos and Kummer's. Used to be really into chess when I was younger but lost the taste for it. Over the past month I became severely addicted. I've been reading Silman's 'assess your chess' book and some terms he was using led me to stumble on these videos. I didn't realize how stupid I was until I started playing chess again. It's just amazing how rusty the brain gets when it rests on its laurels. Please keep up the great work, I enjoy these lectures very much :)
0Pr0ph3t0 My story is almost exactly the same as yours, although mine mebe a little differeny depending on how old you are. I learned to play chess when I was 12 and immediately started playing scholastically. When I was 14 I actually played for the national scholastic championship in my division (which was the lowest rated division LOL) in 1997. It was a 7round tournament and one other player and I were 6-0 g6oing into the final game. I lost to my unrated Cuban opponent who played like a 1900, weaving a beautiful mating net in the middle game.
But back then, Kasparov had beaten Deep Blue and computers aren't what they are now. a 333mhz processor was a big deal. So when I stumbled onto the videos I was amazed. I was lucky enough to play GM Dzhidzhihaschvilitz (I know I butchered that) in a similar, but that was it. I couldn't believe I could get free lectures from Yasser, someone I had never heard speak, but I owned and read all of his books. I was stunned.
and then when I discovered how chess computers had progressed and how chess engines worked and could evaluate positions and games, I couldn't believe what a fantastic resource they were. So now, after listening to all Yasser and Finegold's lectures, I can honestly say I'm a better player now than I've ever been and I'm improving every day. I played on chess.com and analyze almost all of my games after, even though I'm just playing 5 minute blitz. I'm just trying to get in as many games as I can to try and get a grip on the opening. And it's the computer and these lectures that make that possible. it's truly amazing.
He's extremely good, but why the f#$% does he mispronounce simple words such as "setup"? It's like he's going out of his way to be annoying.
@@blairschirmerx1711 Ha? Can you point at the actual mispronunciation?
I also enjoy his way of presentation, it is really good to remember that variation
@UCfs7QhlqGI26HgBa51n6JgQ kummer is actually pretty good you dont have to learn from a god always...do what makes you love chess more, even if it means watchig and learning from someone you find funny...not everyone has to learn from hikaru so stfu soyboi
lol i love this GM and watching how passionate he gets about the chess moves. what a nice guy!
It's amazing how he his able to explain the logic and thought-process behind each move. It's even more impressive when you see how he is able to respond to the suggested moves and questions.
What a gentle giant and kind human being! Thank you sir and may God bless you with excellent health and a long life!😇
Yasser has both chess skills and teaching skills. What an awesome combination!
Awesome teacher! Yasser is so easy to understand and very thorough. I can't help but smile when he smiles from the excitement. I could watch Yasser for hours! I can't wait to start using the Pirc defense...
Really enjoyable voice and personality. Thanks alot to the Chess Club and Scholastic Center of Saint Louis for sharing such a great lecture!
Seirawan used to own or co-own a chess shop in Seattle. They sold a really good low priced tournament chessmen set. I've never found them anywhere else since.
Loved it! I just got your new book "Dueling Masters," and am thoroughly enjoying reading it! Thank you for all your efforts.
Wonderful. Thanks to Yasser and all involved in producing and publishing these videos.
best chess teacher I ever see
This was an instructive lecture, describing the "flow of logic" in chess moves. Thank Mr. Seirawan and thank you Saint Louis Chess Club.
On a rainy day and my best chess buddy has been hospitalized for nearly 11 months, I find listening to the Gentle Giant of chess most comforting. Thank you, Lord, for this angelic human being!!!😇
Amazing man. Both a gentleman on and of the chessboard. I visited the scholastic centre and by chance he was there. Very humble behind great coaching tips.
Great hospitality by ALL and by luck a grandmaster there gave me the great chess tip . . " Its not often WHAT chess books you study but HOW you study the chess books that will aid your chess development"
YesSir Yasser. Could listen to your lectures all day.
We are so lucky to have Yasser ❤
From about 15m... "And the amazing thing is I usually won against myself, which is (like) really hard to do..." I do enjoy listening to Yasser's lectures.
the way that he explains is just amazing and relaxing! i love his style .. thank you for the video i learnt many things ^_^
I love Yasser! I will now start playing the Pirc until at least 2017.
Asking after 1 year just to make sure you keept your promise till now
Ahmed Roberts Today is December 30, 2017. Have u kept your promise?
You still doing it?
Playing Pirc still?
@@ahmedroberts4883 How did it go?
Great lecture, learned a lot, love his style with smiling a lot;)
He is gay ....
nothing but respect for this guy! keep these vids coming!
so humble. he talks like he is an ordinary man when interviewing vishy
Yasser is a great teacher. I definitely need to add the pirc to my game.
What a lovely and engaging instructor!
i love these videos. GM Seirawan is my favorite teacher.
It's pretty good to have patrons who support sports development. Thank you!
Exellent chess lecture. Thank you.
at 3:19 Small correction to Yasser's description on the name of the Dragon - it is a star constellation not planet
He is Dutch, and like most of his countrymen has almost perfect English grammar and pronunciation, but still get mixed up on some words.
@@biffslamchunk5055: Really? I did not know that. I am Dutch myself, and i can't hear the least trace of Dutch in his accent. Actually, i do not think he has any Dutch roots at all (he was born in Damascus, Syria). The only information i could find, that links him to the Netherlands, is that he is married to Woman FIDE Master Yvette Nagel, daughter of Dutch politician Jan Nagel.
And that also surprised me, because i was quite convinced that he was gay :-) Just about everything about him seems to say that ... probably my prejudice. Anyhow, no matter what, i like him and his lectures a lot.
Jurjen van der Hoek
its amazing with how much confidence and ease people will simply just talk a load of shite eh x
@@yadasampatidasa8690many gays have wifes. It is common known fact
@@yadasampatidasa8690 He said in this video that he lived in Amsterdam when he was younger.
Ne8 at 32.28 is absolutely brilliant. Great lecture all round!
If people are wondering why at 32:13, the white Knight doesnt take the pawn a7, he addresses itat 49:20.
Many Great Scholars to learn from.... Chess is a life within itself literally...
I think that what makes this lecture great is that it is very personal to the yaz.
He also puts the opening into a teeter totter analysis which is fun.
Yasser shared some beautiful opening ideas,thanks a lot, It was very instructive!
I watched this vid cause this guy is hilarious . I tried to apply his ideas in my online games , i lost one game in two days won over 100 online rating !!! From now on Yasser is my guide !!!
This class was very good. I'm a Pirc player and I have to say that in some parts the Engine has better moves for both White and Black. And through my analysis of all the variations of the Pirc, I have to admit that Pirc is a suboptimal defense, however, that also means it is made for those who love to rack their brain. If you really prepare this defense, I assure you that a lot of victories will come to you.
Yasser is the best! He and Leko are my favorite sports commentators of all time!
I remember learning and studying from the four, five or six books wrote by GM Yasser Seirawan:) Such a fond memory.
Its a good opening for patient counter attacking players, which is exactly what Yasser is, you don't see it too often at the highest levels because White has such an initiative for a long time straight out of the opening.
GM Seirawan is such a good teacher. Thank You!
This could be a turn in my hopeless-feelings with black as i resigned to play Pirc-Ufimzew. I never had an idea of a counterplay with black and the queen. And for sure, it looks very scary also. I've played very passive and "save" in my younger years, but figured out, there is no hope then and gave up the Pirc.
35:30 Happy about e5, because it is losing a tempo...OK, let's do look at blacks first row. ;-)
I think this is very instructive, very good descriptions, i think i will study more of Seirawan's Lectures. Really impressing.
What a brilliant presentation
just won a nice couple of games with the pirc, thanks yasser!
I just followed chess principles and really started playing this opening. I thought i invented something which gets me thru the faster time controls. I was so surprised to know that there exist an actual opening. So i wanted to explore this idea even more and that is how I ended up being here.
very nice lecture i really enjoyed it. I liké the personal touch to the lecture a lot.
Yasser moves around so much that it's impossible to leave the camera stationary and keep him in the left side of the frame so the end product looks good. Otherwise he'd be much too small and keep disappearing behind the board we transpose on the video. Alternatively, you could just move to Saint Louis and start watching these lectures live in person, and the whole problem would be solved for you!
Please keep on posting these lectures ( more with GM Akobian and GM Ronen Har zivo
I could listen to Yasser talk all day :)
I love Yasser, and he speaks at the perfect pace once I set him to 1.25x speed.
Thanks for the tip, buddy!
Yasser is a Grand Master of chess and a world champ teacher!!!
Explaination was so excellent!
absolutely mind blowing explanation
Total Novice here, can someone please explain why at 27:18 White’s Bishop on D3 is not used to capture the Black Knight on E4?
Because after the White bishop takes the black knight on E3, black can take the knight on c3 with the fianchetto'd bishop to c3. If pawn then takes bishop, queen takes the white bishop. If Pawn doesn't take, you have checkmate.
@@haygoof for an equal game, right? No threats?
you win a pawn and white has a very bad pawn structure around their king
Instead of pawn e5 at 33:24, wouldn't it be possible for bishop d4, forking the queen and the bishop, gaining the missing tempo GM Seirawan mentioned about the pawn move, forcing a trade of black's strong dark squared bishop and weakening black's fortress? Sure, there's a check, letting black's queen slip away from the rook b1 trap (which happens anyway), but that seems like a fairly okay trade, considering black's queen is basically chased all the way back to start, leaving white with a vastly superior development?
I have no idea if it'll come back to bite white in the a** or not, but I'd love to hear what GM Seirawan would think about it :)
Great lecture.
Call me weird but I can’t sleep without listening to Yasser explain chess
Part of the history of Northwest chess was Duncan Suttles in Vancouver who played the Modern defence a close relative of the Pirc. A lot of players were influenced by him in that part of the world. Yasser in Seatle was part of that history.
hope I can get some lines with your QB4 novelty in my games. Looks exciting!
Really appreciate the explanation, but why was the chess board taken down after 38:30? It was somewhat difficult to follow after this point-especially when someone suggested moving the queen side rook to b1.
Yes, that bothered me too as I can't visualize what I can't see on the board.
Great defense. Got my bong with the nice perc,took a rip and played some amazing chess!
Really cool video
Yasser is to me what Bobby Fischer is to Yasser
Yasser is great teacher indeed i purchased a course on chessable it was great, here my concern is the camera operator was probably sleeping and pointing camera some where else away from the action ...after the computer board disappeared it became clear the angle of shooting is very bad.
Sadly no video on the modern
this is good.. more please
Agree with pretty much every comment; Yasser is just a pleasant person. A pleasant chess player. Great commentator.
Yea, I noticed this too. :) He's ofc talking about the stars in the constellation draco.
thanks for the nice lecture!
So here are the moves I got fallowing along.
1.e4 d6 2.d4 g6 3.Nc3 Nf6 4.f4 Bg7 5.Nf3 c5 6.dxc5 Qa5 7.Bd3 Qxc5 8.Qe2 O-O 9.Be3 Qb4 10.O-O
( 10.Rb1 Nxe4 11.Bxe4 Bxc3+ )
( 10.O-O-O Nxe4 11.Nxe4 Bxb2+ 12.Kb1 Bc3+ 13.Kc1 Qb2# )
10...Qxb2 11.Nb5 Ne8 12.e5 Qb4 13.Nxa7 Rxa7 14.Bxa7 Nc6 15.Be3 dxe5 16.fxe5 Nxe5 *
Love him. Reminds me of Liberace. Free gleeful soul
The story teller amazing
at 26:36 why cant white move bishop d2 and if bishop xd2 then knight xd2
I'm thinking Bd2 Bxd2 Nxd2 f5 Bf3 and Qxf4
Great video..thanks 🙏
You are a good teacher ❤️
At 33:22, why not do Bd4, forking the knight and the queen, followed with Bd4x, Nd4x?
Then Nc6 and you knight is hit twice. If you decide Nxc6 then bxc6. After that you can play Rab1, black responds with either Qxa2 or Qg7. No good
***** then Nxd4 attacks the queen. If the queen moves anywhere then Nf3+ and my queen will escape
Random Guy
common buddy i take the queen with my bishop for your knight move
Shiv Kailash
i am sorry i thought ur Nc6 was before .... Bxd4, Nxd4 , my bad.
Please more video sant lous chess club
I have just created a study on lichess about this with the name "Pirc defense: Austrian Attack; Dragon Formation"
What's the link please? Thanks in advance.
The opening music for this video series is very tactical
He’s so kind and good at explaining this but makes it more of a scarier thought to VS him at it
This video aged so well.
I cannot believe I watched a 58 minute video on a Chess opening. How addictive is this damn game! I am barely 900, is it too late to stop now!?
Is was 800 about 3 years ago, now I’m still at 16/1700 don’t give up!!
Don't give up I went from 800 to 1300 couple of months just put the work in
Wish I could see the board
why did you guys stop showing the whole board after 38:26?
Could you do the lecture about clumsy rooks? I exactly know what you're talking about and experiencing what you're talking about. I feel like whenever I move my rooks I loose a tempo because it is really unnecessary to move rooks in many situations. I feel like that at least for me. So I stopped moving rooks unless I really have to.
I'm not talking about in the endgame. In the endgame you have to move your rooks. I'm talking about in the middlegames and openings.
I'm not good at writing, but I hope you know what I'm talking about.
Thank you Yasser always. You are an awesome GM. Every lecture really helps my chess and my interest in chess. Best wishes. :)
+Ben Pork
Would be nice if you provided us with an example.
+Ben Pork
I have a couple of books with lectures about how to move your rooks, but some of them are at quite a high level.
+Ben Pork But I could try to boil things down and make a lecture on my own, if Yasser doesn't react.
what happened to the chessboard at 38:28?
Now everyone is gonna know this line...thanks Seirawan...just kidding great lecture!!
It’s so hard to continue to follow with a quarter of the board not visible.
At 20:25 would it be possible to play a price down considering the pawn structure on each side
At 14.27 can someone explain why he doesn't fear the move e5? Not quite understanding that part. Thanks.
sir in last quarter a lot of light on board and computer is hindering to watch whole board
So the counterstrike wtih ...c5 is the key with some Queen technique. This was very illuminating to me.
11:39 castles recommendation is the only one given in Seirawan's Winning Chess Openings. I wonder if he later changed his mind to c5 and if so, at what point in his career he did that.
13:00 instead of capturing the pawn on g6 with h pawn u can capture it with f pawn and u open lines for your rook without being worried about whites rook open h file because now it would be closed because our h pawn is there
at 40:50 white can play Bxg6 and if fxg6, then Qc4 check is winning
Lichess cpu Stockfish 11 gives black with advantage of 1.1. Just a great piece of analysis.
Everybody love Yasser ! (if i may, it's called "fianKeto", "ch" is pronounced "K" in italian...)
sET up
Omg, let him be dude. No you may not. 🙄
@@joshhernandez5069 hum...why so salty?
He also called the Pirc wrong, not hating just need to clear is pronounced like pierce
Nothing is more embarrassing to me than to mispronounce a key chess term or Grandmaster's name at a tournament and be called on it. It's just "my bad" I guess and shouldn't be a bigger priority than playing well.
I like the check pirc variation
Does anyone know if Yasser has written a book on the Pirc?