Exact catalogue record
Petrov's Defense: Modern AttackC43
Petrov's Defense: Modern Attack is the source catalogue’s name for the exact position reached by the move order below. It is filed under ECO C43, in volume C (open games after 1.e4 e5 plus the French Defense).
On this page
- ECO code
- C43
- Opening family
- Petrov's Defense
- Recorded half-moves
- 6
- Last numbered move
- 3
- Side to move
- White
- Castling rights
- White kingside, White queenside, Black kingside, Black queenside
- Material
- Black is ahead by 1 point
- FEN
- rnbqkb1r/pppp1ppp/5n2/8/3pP3/5N2/PPP2PPP/RNBQKB1R w KQkq - 0 4
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
- Petrov's Defense: Modern Attack, Center Attack (C43)
- Petrov's Defense: Modern Attack, Steinitz Variation (C43)
- Petrov's Defense: Modern Attack, Tal Gambit (C43)
Other records under Petrov's Defense
These records share the source catalogue’s family label; that relationship alone does not imply the same plans or resulting position.
- Petrov's Defense (C42)
- Petrov's Defense (C42)
- Petrov's Defense (C42)
- Petrov's Defense (C42)
- Petrov's Defense (C42)
- Petrov's Defense: Classical Attack (C42)
- Petrov's Defense: Classical Attack, Berger Variation (C42)
- Petrov's Defense: Classical Attack, Chigorin Variation (C42)
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