Hyper Accelerated Dragon

@StupidGM,

If 2...e6 the 3.c4 what about 3...c5?

@RussBell don't worry most rational chess players like seeing reviews of chess books.

Na... I prefer the explosive

This is how to draw 2000s as a 1200

Does that include The Hyper Accelerated Dragon by Raja Panjwani? (It's kinda recent, so I thought it might be possible that you had not yet seen it back in March.)

The hyper-accelerated is the same thing as the normal accelerated but you just avoid Bb5.

And you allow c3-d4 (my personal favorite) and the Qxd4 line. If you enjoy facing those lines and don't enjoy facing Bb5, then by all means play the hyper move order, but others may find c3-d4 and/or Qxd4 annoying and may thus prefer the traditional move order.

Only 1.e4 c5 is shown here. So it is pretty dull.

It is not the same because in the hyper accelerated you can take back on d4 with the queen.    1.e4 c5 2.Nf3 g6 3.d4 cxd4 4.Qxd4!  Nf6 5.e5   ( Also  5.Bb5 is possible )   And   with the normal accelerated verion    1.e4 c5 2.Nf3 Nc6 3.d4 cxd4 4.Nxd4 g6    take with the knight is nessecairy.  Of course white can opt for the Rossolimo  3.Bb5 here. 

Hyper-Accelerated Dragon is decent defense and sound.

 I read Andrew Greet's  book and took up the Accelerated Dragon for a time. But I found in the tournaments I was playing in that most opponents avoided the open Sicilian with lines like the Alapin, Rossolimo and Grand Prix attack. So I wasn't getting to play it enough to remember all the ideas. I therefore went back to my old favourite, the O'Kelly (2...a6). Of course I still face anti-Sicilians most of the time, but the O'Kelly is easy to remember, and it is, in effect a sideline in my repertoire, since the "main lines" are what I play against the various anti-Sicilians.

The November 2017 issue of Chess lists the top twenty openings compiled from a list of 2402 September games where both players were rated over 2400 Elo. One can not take position on this list too seriously because it is greatly influenced by how the openings are grouped. For example, all the Retis are grouped together, while English is separated into 1...c5, 1...e5, etc. Nevertheless, for what it is worth, some of the list entries are: 126 Retis, 100 King's Indians, 97 Nimzo-Indians, 84 Caro-Kanns, 76 declined Queen's Gambits, 73 Slavs, 63 Catalans, 61 Najdorf Sicilians, 58 1...c5 Englishes, 55 Berlin Lopezes, 55 Queen's Indians, 49 Guioco Pianos, 48 1...e5 Englishes, 45 Kan Sicilians, 43 1...Nf6 Englishes, and 42 Taimanov Sicilians.