Chess opening
Modern DefenseB06
The Modern Defense is a chess opening classified under ECO code B06. It is reached after the moves:
1. e4 g6 2. d4 Bg7
Play it vs Stockfish Open in analysis board
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)
Related lines in the Modern Defense
- 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)
Train this opening
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