Exact catalogue record
Modern DefenseB06
Modern Defense is the source catalogue’s name for the exact position reached by the move order below. It is filed under ECO B06, in volume B (semi-open games, especially Sicilian, Caro-Kann, Pirc, Alekhine, and related systems).
On this page
- ECO code
- B06
- Opening family
- Modern Defense
- Recorded half-moves
- 4
- Last numbered move
- 2
- Side to move
- White
- Castling rights
- White kingside, White queenside, Black kingside, Black queenside
- Material
- Material is level
- FEN
- rnbqk1nr/ppppppbp/6p1/8/3PP3/8/PPP2PPP/RNBQKBNR w KQkq - 1 3
Scope of this record
This page preserves a source name, one exact legal move sequence and its resulting FEN. It does not claim that the sequence is best, common or strategically self-contained. Opening names can cover several move orders; the links below report only parent, continuation and family relationships present in this catalogue.
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Comes from
Main continuations
- Modern Defense: Bishop Attack (B06)
- Modern Defense: Standard Line (B06)
- Modern Defense: Three Pawns Attack (B06)
- Modern Defense: Westermann Gambit (B06)
- Modern Defense: Wind Gambit (B06)
- Modern Defense: Mongredien Defense, with Nf3 (B06)
- Modern Defense: Geller's System (B07)
- Pterodactyl Defense: Fianchetto, King Pterodactyl (B06)
- Pterodactyl Defense: Fianchetto, Rhamphorhynchus (B06)
- Pterodactyl Defense: Western, Anhanguera (B06)
- Modern Defense: Dunworthy Variation (B06)
- Modern Defense: Semi-Averbakh Variation, Pterodactyl Variation Declined (B06)
Other records under Modern Defense
These records share the source catalogue’s family label; that relationship alone does not imply the same plans or resulting position.
- Modern Defense: Semi-Averbakh Variation, Polish Variation (A04)
- Modern Defense: Semi-Averbakh Variation, Pterodactyl Variation (A04)
- Modern Defense: Semi-Averbakh Variation, Pterodactyl Variation Accepted (A04)
- Modern Defense: Beefeater Variation (A40)
- Modern Defense: Lizard Defense, Pirc-Diemer Gambit (A40)
- Modern Defense (A41)
- Modern Defense: Neo-Modern Defense (A41)
- Modern Defense: Averbakh System (A42)
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