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Hello everybody. I need some input on the Sicilian Dragons. If you compare the normal, accelerated and hyper accelerated Dragon, are there any caracterisrics ib each of them? More risky than the other, more tactical, more strategic? Thanky you for your input.

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AnnFon wrote:

Hello everybody. I need some input on the Sicilian Dragons. If you compare the normal, accelerated and hyper accelerated Dragon, are there any caracterisrics ib each of them? More risky than the other, more tactical, more strategic? Thanky you for your input.

 

 

Too general.  Have to go further than that.

Example - Accelerated Dragon main line is highly tactical.  Accelerated Dragon Maroczy Bind is highly positional!

Yugoslav Attack is highly tactical.  Classical Dragon is highly positional.

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First of all, we have to consider that not considering Anti-Sicilians (we are not here) the HyperAccelerated and Accelerated Dragons are extremely similar. So the Accelerated Dragon can be more positional if white plays the Maroczy Bind and only rarely gets sharp (usually a dragon transposition). On the other hand, the Dragon, which I play myself is ridiculously sharp and is almost never solid or positional. Black has good winning chances at the price of big losing ones.  Black can objectively hold in all lines, but it is hard in some. Both sides often need only moves and crazy sacrifices and tactics to stay afloat.

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Accelerated and hyperaccelerated can be very tricky early on where white can lose fast or get a bad position if he plays the wrong moves, especially if he tries to force it to look like a yugoslav attack. On the other hand as noted if white plays a Maroczy bind some of the tactics evaporate from the accelerated dragons.   

Most good white players will walk into an accelerated dragon after d4 as well, just start with a KID and when you normally play e5 play c5 instead.  

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"the Dragon, which I play myself is ridiculously sharp and is almost never solid or positional"

Is this really true even in like the Be2 lines?

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MangoMankey wrote:

"the Dragon, which I play myself is ridiculously sharp and is almost never solid or positional"

Is this really true even in like the Be2 lines?

I wouldn’t say it’s true for all Be2 lines, but it definitely is in many. Note how I said almost.

Here is a surprisingly sharp and somewhat popular line with Be2

 

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None of them. The dragon is too sharp to not know tonnes of theory if you’re playing blitz games. And the accelerated dragon often ends up in boring drawish endgames when the queens have been traded
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KnightErrant97 wrote:
None of them. The dragon is too sharp to not know tonnes of theory if you’re playing blitz games. And the accelerated dragon often ends up in boring drawish endgames when the queens have been traded

Bruh