Chess opening
Pterodactyl Defense: Central, Benoni PterodactylA40
The Pterodactyl Defense: Central, Benoni Pterodactyl is a chess opening classified under ECO code A40. It is reached after the moves:
1. d4 g6 2. c4 Bg7 3. e4 c5 4. d5 Qa5+
Play it vs Stockfish Open in analysis board
Comes from
Related lines in the Pterodactyl Defense
- Pterodactyl Defense: Central, Benoni Beefeater Pterodactyl (A40)
- Pterodactyl Defense: Fianchetto, Queen Benoni Pterodactyl (A40)
- Pterodactyl Defense: Fianchetto, Queen Pteranodon (A40)
- Pterodactyl Defense: Fianchetto, Queen Pterodactyl (A40)
- Pterodactyl Defense: Queen Pterodactyl, Quiet Line (A40)
- Pterodactyl Defense (A42)
- Pterodactyl Defense: Central, Bogolubovia (A42)
- Pterodactyl Defense: Austrian, Austriadactylus Western (B06)
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