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I play with White 1.d4 2.c4 3.Nc3 against many openings for Black including QGD, KID, Grunfeld, NimzoIndian defense, and Averbach variation in the Modern defense, etc. Recently, I have been facing this line in the Modern defense

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1.d4 g6 2.c4 Bg7 3.Nc3 c5 4.d5 Bxc3 5.bxc3 f5!

I tried to look at the database and couldn't find something that I can understand to play against this line. I also tried to look at 4.Nf3 and I didn't like what I saw. Let me know what line do you prefer to play against such a line and the ideas behind it please.

Edit: I found one line that goes like

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1.d4 g6 2.c4 Bg7 3.Nc3 c5 4.d5 Bxc3 5.bxc3 f5 6.e4! fxe4 7.f3! e5 
8.Nh3!

It's a crazy line and I believe that Black would be much more prepared than White on average in these positions.

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    This is known as the Dzindzi Indian by the way. Named after GM Roman Dzindzichashvili. That might help your searches.
    – NoseKnowsAll
    May 11 at 0:11
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    This isn't an answer to your question, but against the modern, 2. e4 is definitely a better try than c4. It has the added benefit that 3. Nc3 c5 5. dxc5 is a significant improvement for white over the Dzindzi. In fact, the Pterodactyl is nearly refuted with correct play.
    – NoseKnowsAll
    May 11 at 0:13
  • but I'm a d4 player, and many times the position transposes to a KID or Averbach. Thanks for the suggestion anws.
    – Guess601
    May 11 at 0:22
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    First of all, the fact that Black exchanges this important dark-squared bishop for such cheap positional achievement has to be dubious. If I were white, I would not go out of my way to punish this or find a brilliant forced variation to refute something. Simply continue to develop, be ready to sac one of your c pawns, and rest assured that the dark squares weakness (esp. around king) will haunt Black. Or try the following move order: 1.d4 2.Nf3. Transposes to usual Q pawn openings while avoiding/preventing some options for black. For example, 1.d4 g6 2.Nf3 Bg6 3.c4 c5 4.d5; there,s no Bxc3.
    – Behnam Esmayli
    May 11 at 9:08
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    @benham- this is actually a very strong line for black. It scores 56.7% for black. You're dismissing it without understanding it. The line you gave will likely transpose to a Benoni but by playing nf3 you've allowed black to avoid the Taimanov which is whites best lines vs the Benoni.
    – Savage47
    May 12 at 5:19

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