GM Vasja Pirc
Vasja Pirc was a Yugoslav Grandmaster whose name lives on through the Pirc Defence, the hypermodern opening he championed at the highest level. Active during the mid-twentieth century, he was a key figure in Yugoslav chess and a strong practitioner of systems that challenged classical orthodoxy.
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