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Tree path 9 levels King's Pawn Game › Sicilian Defense › Sicilian Defense › Hyperaccelerated Dragon › Sicilian Defense: Hyperaccelerated Dragon › Sicilian Defense: Hyperaccelerated Pterodactyl › Pterodactyl Defense: Western, Rhamphorhynchus › Pterodactyl Defense: Sicilian, Rhamphorhynchus › Pterodactyl Defense: Sicilian, Pteranodon
  1. Chess Codex
  2. King's Pawn Game B00
  3. Sicilian Defense B20
  4. Sicilian Defense B27
  5. Hyperaccelerated Dragon B27
  6. Sicilian Defense: Hyperaccelerated Dragon B27
  7. Sicilian Defense: Hyperaccelerated Pterodactyl B27
  8. Pterodactyl Defense: Western, Rhamphorhynchus B27
  9. Pterodactyl Defense: Sicilian, Rhamphorhynchus B27
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B27

Pterodactyl Defense: Sicilian, Pteranodon

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Overview

Pterodactyl Defense: Sicilian, Pteranodon is a named branch in the Semi-Open Games group of chess theory, classified under ECO B27.

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 c5 2. Nf3 g6 3. d4 Bg7 4. dxc5 Qa5+ 5. Nc3 Bxc3+ 6. bxc3, after 11 plies of opening development.

In the opening tree, this line branches off from Pterodactyl Defense: Sicilian, Rhamphorhynchus, part of the broader King's Pawn Game system.

It continues primarily into one named line, Sicilian Defense: Hyperaccelerated Pterodactyl, Exchange Variation.

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ECO code
B27
Group
Semi-Open Games (B)
Plies
11
Parent
Pterodactyl Defense: Sicilian, Rhamphorhynchus
Direct variations
1

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