Exeter Chess Club: The Ideas behind the Modern Defence

• The basic idea behind the Modern Defence:
  • Good points for Black about the Modern Defence:
  • Good points for White in the Modern Defence:
  • Bad points about the Modern Defence:
• Non-governmental health warning
  • Game 1: Charity,A - Teichmann,E [B09] (Cambridge Open), 05.1980
• White Pawn centres
  • Classical centre
  • Geller system
  • Three-Pawn centre
  • Pseudo-Austrian centre
  • Pseudo-Samisch centre
  • Averbakh centre
• Ideas for Black
  • Dark square strategy
  • Light square blockade (Gurgenidze)
  • Queen's-side attack
  • Hedgehog strategy
• Variations of the Modern and Pirc Defences
  • P.S. The Modern Defence and related openings.
• Example games:
• GM Nigel Davies on the Modern Defence . [Nigel has his own Checkerwise web site and e-mail.]

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