Chess Opening Theory/1. D4/1...g6 - Wikibooks

Queen's Pawn: Modern
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Position in Forsyth-Edwards Notation (FEN) rnbqkbnr/pppppp1p/6p1/8/3P4/8/PPP1PPPP/RNBQKBNR w
Moves: 1. d4 g6

Queen's Pawn Opening: Modern Defence[edit | edit source]

1...g6

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The Modern Defence is a solid, if not offbeat, response to White's 1. d4. Black gives up the centre in exchange for slower development on the kingside. White's most common reply is 2. e4, and Black usually responds with 3...Bg7 attacking the pawn and aiming at the d4-square.

White's options are many. Here are the 2 most popular:

• 2. e4 - Pirc (Robatsch) or Modern transposition
• 2. c4 - Heading for various queen's pawn games (e.g. KID, OID, QGD)

Theory table

[edit | edit source] For explanation of theory tables, see theory table and for notation, see algebraic notation.

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1. d4 g6

2	3	4	5
Pirc Defence	e4...	See	1. e4	g6	2. d4	=
c4Bg7	Nc3d6	Nf3Nd7	g3e5	Bg2Ne7	=
Beefeater defence	......	...c5	d5Bxc3+	bxc3f5	=
Queen's Pawn Modern	Nf3	=

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References

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• Kasparov, Garry, & Keene, Raymond 1989 Batsford chess openings 2. ISBN 0-8050-3409-9.

Wikipedia has related information at Queen's Pawn Game.

External links

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• 365Chess. 1.d4. g6
• chessgames. 1.d4 g6

v · t · e Chess Opening Theory 1. e4 e5 Open game 2. Nf3 With 2...Nc6:

• Four knights (
  • Four knights Scotch
  • Four knights Spanish
  • Four knights Italian
  • Halloween gambit
  )
• Italian game (
  • Blackburne shilling gambit
  • Giuoco Piano
    • Evans gambit
    • Giuoco pianissimo
    • Jerome gambit ?!
    • Rosentreter gambit
  • Two knights defence
    • Fried liver
  )
• Spanish game (
  • Berlin
  • Bird
  • Classical
  • Cozio
  • Morphy
    • Arkhangelsk
    • Exchange
    • Closed
    • Open
  • Old Steinitz
  • Schliemann
  )
• • Ponziani
  • Scotch game

With other 2nd moves:

• Russian game (
  • Stafford gambit
  • Boden Kieseritzky gambit
  )
• Philidor defence
• • Busch-Gass gambit ?!
  • Elephant gambit ?!
  • Greco defence ?!
  • Latvian gambit ?!
  • Damiano defence??

2. Other

• Bishop's opening
• Centre game
  • Danish gambit
• King's gambit
• Vienna game
• Wayward queen

• Bongcloud??

1. e4 c5Sicilian defence 2. Nf3 · Open Sicilian With 2...Nc6:

• Accelerated dragon
  • Maróczy bind
• Classical
• Godiva
• Kalashnikov
• Rossolimo
• Sveshnikov

With 2...d6:

• Dragon
  • Levenfish attack
  • Yugoslav attack
• Dragondorf
• Kupreichik
• Moscow
• Najdorf
  • 6. Bg5
  • English attack
  • Opocensky
• Scheveningen

With 2...e6:

• French, Normal
  • American attack
  • Four knights
  • Pin
• Kan
• Kveinis
• Kramnik
• Paulsen-Basman
• Taimanov
  • Bastrikov
    • English attack
  • Szén
    • Gary Gambit

With other 2nd moves:

• Hyper-accelerated dragon
• Katalymov
• Nimzowitsch
• O'Kelly

Anti-Sicilians

• Alapin
  • Delayed Alapin with 2...Nc6, 2...d6, or 2...e6
• Bowdler
• Closed Sicilian
  • Carlsen
  • Grand Prix
  • Fianchetto
• McDonnell
• Mengarini
• Smith-Morra
• Snyder
• Staunton-Cochrane
• Wing gambit

1. e4 ...other: Caro-Kann

• Accelerated Panov
• Advance
• Exchange
• Two knights
• Fantasy
• Hillbilly

French

• Advance
• Classical
• Exchange
• Tarrasch
• Rubinstein
• Winawer

Other

• Alekhine
• Czech
• Modern
• Nimzowitsch
• Pirc
• Scandinavian

• Barnes ?
• Borg ?
• Owen's ?

• Corn stalk ??
• Duras ??
• 1...b5 ??

1. d4 d5Closed game 2. c4

• Albin countergambit
• Austrian
• Chigorin
• Marshall
• Queen's gambit accepted
• Queen's gambit declined
• Semi-Slav
• Slav

2. Nc3

• Richter-Versov
• Irish gambit
• Jobava London

2. other

• Accelerated London
• Colle
• Blackmar-Diemer Gambit

1. d4 Nf6Indian defence 2. c4 With 2...e6:

• Bogo-Indian
• Catalan
• Nimzo-Indian
• Queen's Indian

With 2...g6:

• King's Indian
• Grünfeld

With other 2nd moves for Black:

• Modern Benoni
  • Benko/Volga
• Budapest gambit
• Mexican
• Old Indian

2. Nf3

• Spielmann Indian
• Torre

2. other:

• Trompowsky
• London system Indian setup

1. d4 f5Dutch defence

• Hopton
• Korchnoi
• Leningrad
• Staunton
• Stonewall
  • Bladel

1. d4 ...other:

• English defence
• Englund gambit
• Horwitz
• Old Benoni
• Polish

Flank

• Bird's (1. f4)
• English (1. c4)
• Grob (1. g4)
• King's fianchetto (1.g3)
• Larsen (1. b3)
• Zukertort/Réti (1.Nf3)

Unorthodox

• a3
• Na3
• a4
• b4
• c3
• Nc3
• d3
• e3
• f3
• h3
• Nh3
• h4