Pirc players? Anti-Pirc lines?

Originally posted by cmsMaster
Of course there are Anti-Pirc lines, it's such a strong opening that naturally the white players will try to throw black off his game with crazy ideas like an early d3, or Bg5, or early e5's in the Austrian, among many others. There aren't as many Anti-Pirc lines as say, the Sicilian (2.f4, 2.Na3, 2.b3, Smith-Morra, 2.Nc3 and all of the variations that go ...[text shortened]... seem that strong for white, imo. Nothing really to worry about if you're a Pirc player.

These "specialty" systems are not a true 'anti-pirc" system...they all are rather fun to deal with as black, since once you know the pirc, their anti system usually ends up with an advantage for black...if you are worried what could be an enemy to the pirc, it's the classical. It doesn't defeat the pirc, but at stronger levels it is rather hard to generate winning chances with.