The Accelerated Dragon (Part 4) — The Hyperaccelerated Dragon The Hyperaccelerated Dragon describes the position after 1. e4 c5 2. Nf3 g6: In hypermodern fashion, black immediately declares his intentions to fianchetto the dark-squared bishop o...
The Accelerated Dragon (Part 3) — The Maroczy Bind The Maroczy Bind is the term used to describe the position after white plays 5. c4. White takes advantage of the fact that his knight has not been forced to c3 to advance the c-pawn, clam...
The Accelerated Dragon (Part 2) — A Closer Look at the 5. Nc3 Main Lines In this section, we'll take a look at two of the main lines in the Accelerated Dragon with 5. Nc3. The 7. Nxc6 Line By playing 7. Nxc6 and 8. e5, white tries...
The Accelerated Dragon (Part 1) — An Introduction to the Accelerated Dragon. This is the starting position of the Accelerated Dragon variation of the immensely popular Sicilian Defense. The Accelerated Dragon sometimes has a repuation for being...
The Queen's Gambit is often characterized as a slow, positional (i.e., to some at least, boring) opening. It is true that white can play a slower, less aggressive game, but this isn't the whole story! Many openings arising after white's d4+c4 ar...
While considered somewhat risky at top levels, the Dragon variation of the Sicilian Defense is nevertheless an interesting opening in its own right, and can provide many opporunities for the black player to fight for a win. Even though it's far b...
For a while, I played the Nimzo-Indian Defense and Queen's Indian Defense as black, but recently have been experimenting with the Grunfeld for a more dynamic game right out of the opening. As white, I prefer to avoid the Nimzo-Indian with 3. Nf3, ...
Typical for me, at least. :\ As white, I enjoy playing the Queen's Gambit (or d4+c4 in response to the Indian defenses, since I suppose those aren't technically called the Queen's Gambit anymore). However, I find that I have a hard time formulati...
As crazy as it sounds, I've recently tried switching away from the Caro-Kann and taking up the Sicilian Dragon. It's probably hard to do a more complete 180 in the chess world, but my reasoning is that when I played the Caro-Kann, I never felt lik...
