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The Encyclopaedia of Chess Openings (ECO) classifies the Modern Defense as code B06, while codes B07 to B09 are assigned to the Pirc. The tenth edition of Modern Chess Openings (1965) grouped the Pirc and Robatsch together as the "Pirc–Robatsch Defense".
This is a list of chess openings, organised by the Encyclopaedia of Chess Openings (ECO) code classification system.The chess openings are categorised into five broad areas ("A" through "E"), with each of those broken up into one hundred subcategories ("00" through "99").
A distinction is usually drawn between the Pirc and lines where Black delays the development of his knight to f6, or omits it altogether; this is known as the Modern or Robatsch Defence. The tenth edition of Modern Chess Openings (1965) grouped the Pirc and Robatsch together as the "Pirc–Robatsch Defense".
The Encyclopaedia of Chess Openings has ten codes for the Caro–Kann Defence, B10 through B19: B10 (miscellaneous 2nd moves by White) Hillbilly Attack: 1.e4 c6 2.Bc4; Modern; English Variation, Accelerated Panov: 1.e4 c6 2.c4; Breyer Variation: 1.e4 c6 2.d3; Scorpion-Horus Gambit: 1.e4 c6 2.Nc3 d5 3.d3 dxe4 4.Bg5
The Modern Arkhangelsk Defence (or Modern Archangel Defence) (ECO C78), sometimes called the Neo-Arkhangelsk or Neo-Archangel, is a refinement of the regular Arkhangelsk Defence by incorporating ideas similar to the Møller Defence. 6...Bc5 started to gain popularity in the 1990s when the main continuation 7.a4 Rb8 8.c3 d6 9.d4 Bb6 was ...
According to Jim Bickford, [1] one of the characteristics of this defense is the "cork-screw" maneuver the knight makes by traveling to the second rank via f6 and h5. In the introduction to his monograph, Bickford quotes the late Tony Miles as saying "The black knights are better on the second rank – a shame it takes two moves for them to get there."
King's Indian Defense: Averbakh Variation. Cadogan Books. ISBN 9781857441185. Gligorić, Svetozar (2003). King's Indian Defence – Mar Del Plata Variation. Batsford. ISBN 978-0713487671. Panczyk, Krzysztof; Ilczuk, Jacek (2004). Offbeat King's Indian. Everyman Chess. ISBN 9781857443615. Ward, Chris (2004). The Controversial Samisch King's Indian.
The Encyclopaedia of Chess Openings codes for Petrov's Defence are C43 (for 3.d4) and C42 (for all other lines). [ 2 ] This article uses algebraic notation to describe chess moves.