Pirc Player Underestimates Simple Attack

Here in my latest club game against Bourne End, my opponent chose to play the Pirc again 1.e4. I seem to remember seeing some games against the Kings Indian recently where White can have their pawns placed aggresively on d4, e4 and f4. I think that this setup is known as the 'Austrian Attack'? I elected to play this setup, given that I think that the f pawn should not in any way be obsrtucted by the Knight on f3. I have used the 'Saemisch' variation in the past (for White) with limited success, learning it because my old chess mentor, Adam Sobey used to thrash me with the Kings Indian as Black every week! I guess I learned from my mistakes, but I was expecting much more of a Queenside attack from Black in this game! After the King moves on move 20, fxg6 is coming, with the possibility of Knight jumping to h5 for backup ...

Breaking down the walls ...

I have started playing Chess Genius Lite on my Android phone. I had an interesting game as White yesterday - admittedly Chess Genius only had 1 second per move, but it's a computer, so I have no sympathy for it!!! Here is the game I managed to win - a Pirc, and it shows readers the technique of throwing pieces at a defense in attempt to smash it down (I think it's called the Argentinian Attack...?) My mentality was simply 'no matter how many pieces it takes, if I can checkmate my opponent then I've achieved my objective, so keep the attack going!'.

As usual - any comments welcome!!

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The Lion's Den: Pirc Defence (B09)

This is one of my favourite club games to date! My opponent plays the Pirc Defence. There is much jockeying for position on the Queenside in the early middlegame. I do think though, that Black was too premature with 4. .. Qa5+? 5.Nc3 Qb6 It doesn't seem to be a very economical set of developing moves, because the Queen gets driven back to c7 after 9.Na4 ... but my Knight is also misplaced and ends up back on c3. Comically, a similar thought process must have been going through my head because I played 17.Qa4 Nfd7 18.Qb3 Nc5 19.Qc2 ... I then managed to place the Queen back on a4 on move 22! I gained an important tempo though on move 26 capitalising on my opponent not castling early enough. I castled queenside and gained decisive control of the centre. I then managed to lure my opponents Queen into the Lion's Den!

I allow the capture of a pawn on 34. .. Qxe5 but then 35.Nd6+ Kc7 36.Qd3? Qd4 37.Qg3! wins my opponent's Queen for a Rook (killer discovered tactic). The remainder of the game is simply a matter of trading off all the pieces to reach a won ending. We didn't get that far though. My opponent resigned on move 44 due to my threats down the h1-a8 diagonal ...

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