A complete survey of the modern Pirc defence, whereby Black tempts White to build up a big pawn centre which then becomes the target for counter-attack, this is written by John Nunn, a Grandmaster ranked tenth in the world and author of several books on chess.
John Denis Martin Nunn is an English chess grandmaster, a three-time world champion in chess problem solving, a chess writer and publisher, and a mathematician. He is one of England's strongest chess players and once was in the world's top ten.