About this opening
Modern Defense: Bishop Attack, Bücker Gambit is an opening in the Encyclopedia of Chess Openings,
classified under code B06. ECO group B (B00–B99)
covers semi-open games (1.e4 with Black playing anything other than 1…e5), with the Sicilian, French, Caro-Kann and Pirc/Modern at its heart. This particular variation is reached
after 6 half-moves from the
starting position, with the move sequence 1. e4 g6 2. d4 Bg7 3. Bc4 b5.
It belongs to the Modern Defense family.
Within that family this is a level-2 branch (the Bishop Attack → Bücker Gambit line). The immediate parent line is Modern Defense: Bishop Attack, transitioned via 3…b5.
The opening sequence in prose form: 1.e4 g6, 2.d4 Bg7, 3.Bc4 b5. From this position the encyclopaedia records no further canonical continuations — practical play branches into unnamed transpositions or returns to the parent line for alternative ideas.