Caissa Codex
A40

Mikenas Defense trainer

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Practise the Mikenas Defense

The Mikenas Defense is 1.d4 Nc6: Black answers the queen's pawn with the queen's knight. Play Black's moves of the line from memory — 1. d4 Nc6 — and the trainer plays White's replies; "Play the other side" turns it around.

"Drill all" adds the 5 named lines that continue it, such as Mikenas Defense: Lithuanian Variation, Montevideo Defense, Mikenas Defense: Cannstatter Variation, Mikenas Defense: Pozarek Gambit, Zaire Defense.

Read about the line, its statistics on Lichess and Stockfish's evaluation on the Mikenas Defense page, or pick another opening in the opening trainer.

https://chesscodex.org/train/mikenas-defense