Is there anything to moves like 4...Qb6 or 4...Qa5?
Hyper Accelerated Dragon
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Mar 30, 2017
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#23
StupidGM wrote:
As long as White can handle this transposition, Black has no way to avoid the Maroczy Bind in ANY Sicilian.
Hey dude,what if I play 2...d5?Avoided maroczy right?
Mar 30, 2017
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#25
@RussBell don't worry most rational chess players like seeing reviews of chess books.
Anyway, I do have all (Hyper)Accelerated Dragon books printed up to date (starting with David Levy's back in the late seventies) and if I had to pick one, it would be Greet's. It's not perfect, but fairly thorough and very well laid-out.
Na... I prefer the explosive
This is how to draw 2000s as a 1200 
IM pfren wrote:
... I do have all (Hyper)Accelerated Dragon books printed up to date (starting with David Levy's back in the late seventies) ....
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.)
Dec 26, 2017
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#29
The hyper-accelerated is the same thing as the normal accelerated but you just avoid Bb5.
PhD_in_everything wrote:
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.
kindaspongey έγραψε:
IM pfren wrote:
... I do have all (Hyper)Accelerated Dragon books printed up to date (starting with David Levy's back in the late seventies) ....
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.)
I recently got this one. I think it's not a good book for class players (unlike Greet's). Good & thorough analysis, but the lines picked are not the easiest, and there are no simple verbal explanations.
Never_dull schreef:
Try this if you want a sharp unusual open Sicilian: https://www.chess.com/video/player/why-simon-loves-the-sicilian-the-dragodorf
Only 1.e4 c5 is shown here. So it is pretty dull.
PhD_in_everything schreef:
The hyper-accelerated is the same thing as the normal accelerated but you just avoid Bb5.
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.
15...f5 in the #35 game is not terribly good. Just a line: 22.Qxa5 grabs a pawn for free, and lets the knight jump to b4 in case of ...e6. 17.Bd1 is fine, but 17.f4 and 17.Rbd1 are also good for white- Black has the worse pawn structure without much of a counterplay to compensate.
Black has more reliable plans, I suggest focusing on traditional dark-square control with 15...Be5!? (15...e6 has similar ideas) 16.Rfd1 e6, when 16.Nb5? is just wrong after 16...Qh4.
That's one reason white prefers 13.Bf2!? over 13.Be3. And all that is just the tip of the iceberg.