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Modern Defense
Overview
Modern Defense is a variation within the Semi-Open Games family, indexed as ECO B06.
The Semi-Open Games group covers semi-open games — replies to 1.e4 where Black declines the symmetrical 1…e5 in favour of an asymmetric pawn structure.
Play reaches this position via 1. e4 g6 2. d4 Bg7, after 4 plies of opening development.
It is a variation of Modern Defense, which itself descends from the root opening King's Pawn Game.
It is the root of 15 named variations, with Bishop Attack, Dunworthy Variation, Geller's System, and others among the most studied.
Below the direct variations, the full subtree contains 35 documented sub-variations.
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- ECO code
- B06
- Group
- Semi-Open Games (B)
- Plies
- 4
- Parent
- Modern Defense
- Direct variations
- 15
- Total in subtree
- 35
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Variations (15)
- B06 Bishop Attack
- B06 Dunworthy Variation
- B07 Geller's System
- B06 Mongredien Defense, with Nf3
- B06 Semi-Averbakh Variation, Pterodactyl Variation Declined
- B06 Standard Line
- B06 Three Pawns Attack
- B06 Westermann Gambit
- B06 Wind Gambit
- B06 Pterodactyl Defense: Central, Anhanguera
- B06 Pterodactyl Defense: Central, Benoni Quetzalcoatlus
- B06 Pterodactyl Defense: Central, Quetzalcoatlus Gambit
- B06 Pterodactyl Defense: Fianchetto, King Pterodactyl
- B06 Pterodactyl Defense: Fianchetto, Rhamphorhynchus
- B06 Pterodactyl Defense: Western, Anhanguera
Show all 35 sub-variations (full subtree)
- B06 Bishop Attack 5-ply
- B06 Dunworthy Variation 10-ply
- B07 Geller's System 7-ply
- B06 Mongredien Defense, with Nf3 6-ply
- B06 Semi-Averbakh Variation, Pterodactyl Variation Declined 10-ply
- B06 Standard Line 5-ply
- B06 Three Pawns Attack 5-ply
- B06 Westermann Gambit 5-ply
- B06 Wind Gambit 5-ply
- B06 Pterodactyl Defense: Central, Anhanguera 10-ply
- B06 Pterodactyl Defense: Central, Benoni Quetzalcoatlus 10-ply
- B06 Pterodactyl Defense: Central, Quetzalcoatlus Gambit 10-ply
- B06 Pterodactyl Defense: Fianchetto, King Pterodactyl 8-ply
- B06 Pterodactyl Defense: Fianchetto, Rhamphorhynchus 8-ply
- B06 Pterodactyl Defense: Western, Anhanguera 8-ply
- B06 Modern Defense: Anti-Modern 9-ply
- B06 Bücker Gambit 6-ply
- B06 Modern Defense: Gurgenidze Defense 10-ply
- B06 Modern Defense: Lizard Defense, Mittenberger Gambit 6-ply
- B06 Modern Defense: Modern Pterodactyl 6-ply
- B06 Modern Defense: Mongredien Defense, with Nc3 6-ply
- B06 Modern Defense: Standard Defense 6-ply
- B06 Modern Defense: Two Knights Variation, Suttles Variation 8-ply
- B06 Pterodactyl Defense: Austrian, Austriadactylus Western 8-ply
- B06 Pterodactyl Defense: Austrian, Pteranodon 8-ply
- B06 Modern Defense: Pseudo-Austrian Attack 7-ply
- B06 Modern Defense: Two Knights Variation 7-ply
- B06 Pterodactyl Defense: Eastern, Anhanguera 7-ply
- B06 Pterodactyl Defense: Eastern, Benoni Pteranodon 10-ply
- B06 Pterodactyl Defense: Eastern, Rhamphorhynchus 7-ply
- B06 Pterodactyl Defense: Sicilian, Quetzalcoatlus 10-ply
- B06 Pterodactyl Defense: Sicilian, Siroccopteryx 9-ply
- B06 Suttles Variation, Tal Gambit 12-ply
- B06 Pterodactyl Defense: Eastern, Pteranodon 10-ply
- B06 Pterodactyl Defense: Eastern, Pterodactyl 8-ply