Chess opening

Modern Defense: Standard DefenseB06

The Modern Defense: Standard Defense is a chess opening classified under ECO code B06. It is reached after the moves:

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Comes from

• Modern Defense: Standard Line (B06)

Main continuations

• Modern Defense: Pseudo-Austrian Attack (B06)
• Modern Defense: Two Knights Variation (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)

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