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Clicking on a book cover will open a "book study club" dedicated exclusively to that book. These clubs are public, so you don't need to join in order to view the content or leave comments, but of course, you may join if you wish. Each Book Club contains links to the example games in the book it is dedicated to. Clicking on a game link will open either a diagram version of the game oriented with Black at the bottom or a database version of the game. If there is no link it is because I haven't done that book yet. Enjoy! 2014 The Modern Tiger Tiger Hillarp Persson 2012 The Modern Defence move by move Cyrus Lakdawala 2012 Crushing White: The SNIPER Ron W. Henley 2011 the Sniper Charlie Storey 2008 starting out: the modern Nigel Davies 2007-2008 SOS Vols 7 & 8 Articles by Alexander Finkel and Jeroen Bosch 2005 Tiger's Modern Tiger Hillarp Persson 2000 modern defence Jon Speelman & Neil McDonald 1994 The Modern Defense Ken Smith & John Hall 1994 WINNING WITH THE MODERN David Norwood 1991 MODERN DEFENSE - Averbakh Lines - New Ideas Eric Schiller 1988 BLACK TO PLAY AND WIN WITH 1...g6 Andrew Soltis 1979 the modern defence Vlastimil Hort 1972 The Modern Defence R.D. Keene and G.S. Botterill

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The ...Nd7 Trap arises after 1.e4 g6 2.d4 Bg7 3.Nf3 d6 4.Bc4 when 4...Nd7 looks like a perfectly normal developing move. However 4...Nd7 blocks the bishop's protection of e6 and much worse; it smothers the queen. Here are six examples. Arnason vs Pribyl 1990 Santasiere vs Byrne 1946 Srebrnic vs Motoc 2007 Djordjevic vs Trickovic 2012 Maia vs Pereira Vilalba 2001 Hughey vs Day 2001

Welcome to 1...g6 Modern Repertoire The purpose of this group is to provide the resources with which to develop a personal repertoire based on 1...g6 played against any White opening. Click the topic "The Modern by the Book" which contains the example games from the many books about 1...g6 defenses, either in diagram form or by way of links to database versions of the games. Playing through these games will help you become familiar with the variations.https://www.chess.com/clubs/forum/view/the-modern-by-the-book2 The club is currently inactive. Feel free to browse our resources. Browse through the various member submitted topics in the club forum. Feel free to use the club forum to ask questions, submit topics and post your 1...g6 games for review by club members.

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Why we don't want to play against just one person.1 - One person does not have a chance against our team.2 - One person will not provide us with a challenging game.3 - One person is more likely to time-out.4 - One person playing against a group is more likely to use an engine.5 - One person playing vote chess against a group is not a team; it's an ego. 6 - One person playing against several is a privilege reserved for titled players and/or world and local champions. 7 - There's no one (1) in T-E-A-M...

Modern Group Menu If you have come to this page looking for the lists of games it has been moved to [Here] Video - "History of the Modern Defense" parts 1 & 2 http://www.chess.com/article/view/the-modern-defense-a-history http://www.chess.com/article/view/the-modern-defense-a-history-part-2

1...g6 Modern Repertoire Vote Chess "Rules are for the obedience of fools and the guidance of wise men." ---Douglas Bader "Every game is defined by it's rules. If there's no rules, there's no game." ---wormrose Last update 14 Jun 2019 We play 1...g6 against whatever White can throw at us. We begin play with 1...g6 with the fianchetto 2...Bg7 on the next move in most cases. The focus of the group is on the Modern Defense with transpositions allowed. One Rule Do not vote for a move unless it has been suggested in comments in the discussion forum and has not been refuted. If your move of choice has not been suggested then suggest it. There are NO exceptions to this rule. Offenders will receive one warning and if it re-occurs they will be removed from the game. Teammates who vote to offer a draw or resign without suggestion or discussion will be removed without warning. One Suggestion It is recommended that members withhold their votes until the clock reads 24 Hours or less, so as to make the best use of our three day time control. There ARE exceptions to this rule. However, voting on the 1st day of our turn is only allowed in forced situations.Prior to 24 hours on the clock; please do not submit a comment that you have voted early or a comment which contains the current votes. I expect everyone to use good judgement. Votes are far more effective when we have discussed the pros and cons of our candidate moves. Please use standard algebraic chess notation so we can all understand each other! N= B= R= Q= K= Chess engines are NOT allowed in 0ur vote chess games. Archived computer games are also NOT allowed. Please avoid mentioning computer analysis in our vote game forums. Moves can be submitted from experience, books, articles, videos or from chess databases which can be found at various websites. If you see a foolish move or blunder being suggested by another team member please be courteous, respectful and constructive in your appraisal of the move. Let us judge the moves - not the people who suggest them.If you get mad and decide to leave the game or if you should accidentally click on [Leave Game] you will see a confirmation pop up which will give you a second chance to stay in the game (suggested). If you still chose to leave; that action is irreversible. Please show respect for your team mates and keep the language clean. Enjoy the games! xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxClick [HERE] to download a text.pgn of our completed Vote Chess games. xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx

What is important to remember here is that 5. h4 can be met with ...Nf6 and not with ...h5 and that the option of ...Bxh3 as reaction to Nh3 should be kept open. I will cover several other lines in separate posts/diagrams because what happens around move 5/6 is very important in this line and should not be confused.

This is the compilation of sidelines from game 31 (Shytaj - THP) from The Modern Tiger. All annotations in quotation marks are by Tiger himself. Here are the most important take-away points: 1. After an early g4, play ...b5! Don't experiment with knight moves unless you know exactly what you are doing. As the g4/h4 complex tends to transpositions, it is also more efficient to stick to ...b5 because this is being played anyway in the lines that include a later h4, so you stay within familiar territory. 2. If White plays h4 while the g-pawn is still on g4, respond with ...h6. 3. If White pushes to g5, the e-pawn belongs on e6 and the king's knight on e7. 4. If White plays h5 only after g5, you can respond with the immediate h4. In case of gxh e.p., the game takes an unusual direction where Black agrees to swap DSBs and opens the kingside followed by castling long in some cases.

While I almost never - if ever - encountered a fully fledged "Flexible Dragon Restrained" with the plan of castling long, bolstering e4 with f3 and advancing the kingside pawns in OTB play with long time controls, I see myself often confronted with berserk pawn activity on the kingside in blitz games. All the more important it is to remember the correct defense without having to think too long. (BTW I have the feeling that through some trickle-down effect, early outside pawn advances that seem to become more popular in GM play recently also appear more often on lower levels. Of course, it makes a difference whether a GM plays an early h4 or a4 with a plan in mind or an amateur just tosses in the move because they "thought they could play positional chess like a grandmaster", as Andrea Botez once put it so nicely, but a loaded gun can be deadly also in the hands of an amateur, or even more so.) As the respective lines are a bit scattered in The Modern Tiger, I will try to compile the most important variations in a little series of posts. I am intending to classify the material into three groups: 1. White plays g4 before or without h4 This is comparatively rare but not less dangerous and it is important to react precisely. 2. White plays h4 before or without g4 This is the main complex of lines. 3. White plays h4 outside the typical Flexible Dragon Restrained set-up These are rarer lines where there is less to fear but still it's important to know how to cope with is somewhat speculative early h-pawn push.

Here's another amateur league game of mine. Time control was 2 hrs/40 moves plus 30 min without increment (!), my opponent was rated slightly higher than me. It doesn't cast a very good light on me, but even the more I think it's worth posting it here because it contains so many characteristic mistakes and misjudgements. Bottom line: you can easily drop a few tempos in the opening against the so-called Lesser Averbakh (with d4, c4 and e3) unless you know when to lash out with ...f5 and ...Nc5 in a KID. In this particular game, my opponent even gave me lots of second chances to play these moves, and frankly speaking, my over-prophylactic way to play was maybe not even wrong because it lured her into manouevering that weakened her position. But in the end of course it's very embarrassing to accept a draw in a position where you lead by about 9-10 points as Black just because you get frustrated that your opponent doesn't simply give up. I honestly thought that my advantage was more or less gone in the end and wasn't in the mood for a long endgame. Enjoy.

Remember my series on the "passive-aggressive cowards"? Today I had the occasion to play against one of the dreaded set-ups in an OTB game. Time control was 1 hr 15 minutes with 30 seconds increment but no extra time after move 40. (I would assess this as slow rapid chess.) My opponent was rated 300 points higher. I think the game contains some instructive mistakes but also the lesson that Black can get away with almost everything against this kind of play... Enjoy.

hi! I want to learn the modern defense, can you guys pls give me any starting tips and pointers to help?

A Modern game I just finished. I made some mistakes and a blunder. In the end tactics saved the game. On move 16. exd4 my Re8 was a mistake. Stockfish says c5. Again on move 17 instead of my d5 I should have played c5. Can someone tell me what thought process would lead me to play c5. I would not ever have found that on my own. What am I not seeing?

We now have a feature which allows us to block certain clubs from accepting our open seeks and also from challenging us. The cliubs which have already been blocked are listed below.If you think a club belongs on this list then please submit a comment with the name of the club and I will add it to this list. Harry potter legendary club DORU-66 AND HIS BEST FRIENDS BLACK KNIGHT CHESS PHILIPPINES' FINEST Chess Club

How's it going! First of all I hope that this does not violate the rules of the group, if so I will eliminate inmediately. I have done research on the internet and there is no larger databases on Modern Defense. For example, I especially have a database on the King's Indian Attack that comes with thematic moves, problems and plans to know something very useful to train and especially learn at my level. That is why I have been working on my own database since 1. e4, g6 2. d4, Bg7 but it is difficult for me to do something very elaborate in ChessBase. So if anyone knows where to get a database on Modern Defense or even if they like to share their own, I think it would be a tremendous contribution to everyone. Anything I will be attentive to the comments!

Awhile ago, I put together the most significant lines from Tiger's analysis of his game against Emanuel Berg. This might answer some of the questions related to that line.

Recently I've been facing similar set ups where white tries to attack via Bh6 castling long and pushing the h pawn etc. What's the safest method of defending against such attacks