Tree path 3 levels Queen's Pawn Game › Horwitz Defense › Kangaroo Defense
- Chess Codex
- Queen's Pawn Game A40
- Horwitz Defense A40
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Kangaroo Defense
Overview
Kangaroo Defense is a variation within the Flank Openings family, indexed as ECO A40.
The Flank Openings group covers flank openings — systems that delay the central pawn break and instead develop pieces and pawns on the wings.
Play reaches this position via 1. d4 e6 2. c4 Bb4+, after 4 plies of opening development.
It is a variation of Horwitz Defense, which itself descends from the root opening Queen's Pawn Game.
It continues primarily into one named line, Keres Defense, Transpositional Variation.
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- ECO code
- A40
- Group
- Flank Openings (A)
- Plies
- 4
- Parent
- Horwitz Defense
- Direct variations
- 1
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