1. regarding roman dzindzi's videos! well, i have most of his DVDs (including 66 and 67) but i prefer to have another source to rely on! (nothing personal, but his DVDs are a bit more commercial than educational! IMHO, it's like doing anything, just to sell more copies! ... i know that all those who make DVDs, have commercial targets, but i mean, if you compare Chessbase DVDs, Foxy series, and Roman's Labs, you will find that roman's quality is the poorest). so to sum up, i prefer to base my studies on other sources!
P.S: please note that in the book he did: " chess openings for black, explained" , he recommended playing the a5 variation instead of Qa5(the variation recommended in his DVD)", in addition to that, if you search for the same book for the white side, you will see a lot of critics done to this book because of many inaccurate analysis and refutable variations he gave!
2.regarding the level, well, i don't have a FIDE rating yet, mainly because im a little bit new to chess, but my level is around 2000-2050 (don't judge my rating here, i started playing last week, so it's gonna be higher soon hopefully)
3. regarding the move order dzindzi suggests to avoid the maroczy, he talks about it very briefly and says that black has good position, and he didn't even bother to talk about the variation in igor miladinovic's game, he only talked baout taking c6 after Be3, Bg7, and then Nxc6, bxc6, e5, here he says Nd5 is playable, (this move was also recommended by andrew martin in his foxy video on the acc dragon) but he continues and says that he prefers Ng8... and gives few quick lines, and that's it, no real deep analysis. (P.S: when he finished talking about this variation, he said that "if you feel that there are any sidelines not covered in this video, you can pick up any book about the acc dragon and find more analysis there) so there were no special analysis with rybka regarding this line!
4. regarding what WGM pogonina said, its true, at a much lower level than IMs/GMs, all these theoretical statements are not very applicable, but anyway, i prefer to chose something that is good to use against a 1200 or a 2500 player! that's better than wasting my time now, and then later on when my opponents become stronger/close to masters level, find out that i have to change my repertoire.
I suggest you go watch that dvd again because what you wrote here is not accurate at all, he has a whole line, and a bunch of analysis after Ng8, I suppose you just don't remember, he obviously checked his analysis of these lines with the use of his super computer and rybka. why are you trying to mislead people? (weird)
you are also taking things he stated out of context/and twisting it. (strange)
and his book "chess openings for black explained" is actually recommended by IM Shahade as one of the few opening books actually worth something.
I don't know what you have against GM Dzindzichasvili, but whatever it is, this is ridiculous. absurd really. I've seen the foxy dvds as well, and they didn't strike me as better than Roman's Lab in any way. both are quality chess dvds. what is your beef? (weird).
and by the way, Dzindzi would destroy you.
The accelerated dragon may be static in the main line, but if white trys to get into a Yugoslav attack (and it does happen) the accelerated dragon can explode into life and equalise for black. Your likely to catch out at least one person by this!
this is true, but you have to know the accelerated precisely to take advantage of it, I should say if you don't know the stuff down cold, it's really easy to forget something and all of sudden find yourself in a yugoslav attack saying to yourself "he's not supposed to be able to do that" Im sure this isn't something professionals worry about, but for people just learning it, believe me, it can happen. people will try and trick you with move orders. the thing with accelerated dragon in my experience, I'm not a professional, just some guy who is learning it, you have to play it extremely precisely, for two reasons, if you don't, you'll get killed or if your opponent errs you won't get the continuation that equalizes or more. that's the thing in my opinion, not only does black have to play it precisely, white does too, if white doesn't play the exact right moves they can get stomped in the opening, and this happens more frequently than you would suspect at club level. probably doesn't happen at IM/GM level.
I found looking at the accelerated dragon games of GM Vladamir Malakhov very helpful, he has played it a bunch and I think his conclusion was something along the lines that at the IMGM level it's like a reliable drawing weapon or something, but real difficult to get any type of meaningful advantage, I think I read this in an interview he gave. but if something is a reliable drawing weapon at the IMGM level, it's probably more than solid at club level, even right up to around like 2000 or expert, maybe even a little above this. right? that's what I think anyway.
though i have not played the mainlines in this opening much, i've never found any dangerous (for black) trick move orders to get into the yugoslav attack (and i don't think there are any, but please inform me if iam wrong) theory wise, the accelerated dragon isn't all that bad, and the big advantage of the accelerated dragon is that it is NOT meant to be sharp and i cannot find any exceptions to this except maybe for a dubious one a friend played on me. As for the opening's statistics, i have to agree that this opening is a drawing weapon. All in all, it's probably easier to play than some sicilians, not a bad opening at all. Also, i thank you for suggesting GM Vladamir Malakhov as a good person to look up to for this opening.