Exact catalogue record
Queen's Pawn Game: Modern DefenseA40
Queen's Pawn Game: Modern Defense is the source catalogue’s name for the exact position reached by the move order below. It is filed under ECO A40, in volume A (flank openings, irregular first moves, and many English/Reti structures).
On this page
- ECO code
- A40
- Opening family
- Queen's Pawn Game
- Recorded half-moves
- 2
- Last numbered move
- 1
- Side to move
- White
- Castling rights
- White kingside, White queenside, Black kingside, Black queenside
- Material
- Material is level
- FEN
- rnbqkbnr/pppppp1p/6p1/8/3P4/8/PPP1PPPP/RNBQKBNR w KQkq - 0 2
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
- 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)
Other records under Queen's Pawn Game
These records share the source catalogue’s family label; that relationship alone does not imply the same plans or resulting position.
- 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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