Modern Defense
1.e4 g6
Black fianchettoes the king's bishop first and keeps the pawn structure flexible, often transposing to the Pirc.
As White: 60% score in 3118 games (1764 wins, 192 draws, 1162 losses).
As Black: 60% score in 5033 games (2845 wins, 376 draws, 1812 losses).
Who plays it most
- FM Patrick Liu: 199 games as Black, scores 61%
- GM ZURAB AZMAIPARASHVILI: 124 games as Black, scores 55%
- FM Dincer Tasdogen: 122 games as Black, scores 68%
- GM Stanislav Novikov: 104 games as Black, scores 52%
- GM Renier Gonzalez: 99 games as Black, scores 96%
- GM Yair Parkhov: 94 games as Black, scores 55%
- GM Nico Georgiadis: 86 games as Black, scores 52%
- lethalspider7: 86 games as Black, scores 49%
- GM Patrick Wolff: 85 games as Black, scores 71%
- FM Robby Adamson: 82 games as Black, scores 49%
- GM Andy Woodward: 82 games as Black, scores 73%
- IM Radin Yadegar: 80 games as Black, scores 66%
- GM Vitezslav Rasik: 68 games as Black, scores 49%
- GM Ameet Ghasi: 66 games as Black, scores 64%
- GM taekwondoking: 63 games as Black, scores 59%
From the recent public Chess.com games of 717 players on the top players list, updated about once a week. Score = wins plus half the draws.