Chess opening
Queen's Pawn Game: Modern DefenseA40
The Queen's Pawn Game: Modern Defense is a chess opening classified under ECO code A40. It is reached after the moves:
1. d4 g6
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Comes from
Main continuations
- Modern Defense: Lizard Defense, Pirc-Diemer Gambit (A40)
- Modern Defense (A41)
- Modern Defense: Neo-Modern Defense (A41)
- Queen's Pawn Game: Chigorin Variation, Fianchetto Defense (D00)
- Pterodactyl Defense: Eastern, Benoni (B06)
- Pterodactyl Defense: Queen Pterodactyl, Quiet Line (A40)
- Colle System: Pterodactyl Variation (A40)
- Pterodactyl Defense: Central, Benoni Pterodactyl (A40)
- Pterodactyl Defense: Eastern, Benoni Pterodactyl (B06)
- Pterodactyl Defense: Fianchetto, Queen Benoni Pterodactyl (A40)
- Pterodactyl Defense: Fianchetto, Queen Pterodactyl (A40)
- Modern Defense: Averbakh Variation, Pseudo-Sämisch (A42)
Related lines in the Queen's Pawn Game
- Queen's Pawn Game (A40)
- Queen's Pawn Game: Anglo-Slav Opening (A40)
- Queen's Pawn Game (A41)
- Queen's Pawn Game: Liedmann Gambit (A43)
- Queen's Pawn Game: Chigorin Variation (A45)
- Queen's Pawn Game: Veresov, Richter Attack (A45)
- Queen's Pawn Game: Torre Attack, Breyer Variation (A46)
- Queen's Pawn Game: Veresov Attack, Classical Defense (A46)
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