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Modern Defense the option of blunting the g7-bishop with c2–c3. There are numerous transpositional possibilities between the two openings. The "Encyclopaedia of Chess Openings" () 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". White's strongest response to the Modern Defense is 2.d4, to which Black typically responds 2...Bg7. The main continuations are: Other possibilities include: Bobby Fischer suggested the move 3.h4!? as an unorthodox try against 1...g6 2.d4 Bg7, in his annotation to a game