Let them build it, then knock it down
The Pirc: handing over the centre and attacking it once it grows too big.
Everything you have learned so far says to occupy the centre. This lesson shows the strangest and most modern idea in chess: LET your opponent build the whole centre, stay small behind it, and then hit it. It works because a big centre is a hard centre to defend — but it only works for the patient.
The Pirc. Black barely contests the centre in the opening moves, and that is the plan.
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