Practice the Modern Defense in Standard, Pterodactyl, Pseudo-Austrian, and Averbakh lines. Follow 8 lines from our Modern Defense guide, try 16 board exercises, and play six positions against the bot.
Follow four Black counterplans and four White space schemes through the Standard, Pterodactyl, Pseudo-Austrian, and Averbakh systems.
Keyboard: ← → step through the moves. Click any move chip to jump.
Where the moves come from: every line and position in this trainer comes from our Modern Defense guide. The five unchanged tests select ...c5 (-0.86), ...h5 (-0.77), ...f5 (-0.66), Nf3 (+0.60), and ...Kf8 (+0.55).
The 16 positions cover queenside expansion, the h-pawn restraint, ...Qa5 pressure, the forced king move, ...c5 against f4, the ...Na6-c5 route, the Averbakh ...f5 break, and four White setup decisions. Every line is drilled twice.
Keyboard: Enter next drill · H hint · R reset the position.
Choose one of six verified Modern starts and set the opponent between 600 and 2500. The coach comments on eight key moments, including the book shell, Standard h-pawn race, Pterodactyl queen pressure, Pseudo-Austrian break, and Averbakh route.
Play the main five-move book position, book lines for the Standard Defense, Pterodactyl, Pseudo-Austrian, and Averbakh systems, plus the position where Black must find ...Kf8.
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