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Philidor defense is traditionally considered to be a bad opening. “From the point of view of an engine it can be playable, but for a real human player it’s too passive, you shouldn’t play it”. Moreover, when I’ve tried researching it, I have found much more videos with ways how to play against it than the tutorials for black itself. Anyway, I’ve played it quite a bit and found it to be quite a nice opening. It is more solid than passive, black has good control of the center, a couple of interest...