Popularity of Sicilian Lines

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krecs

I have been really struggling in my OTB tournaments, looking for a sicilian line that isn't too popular, and provides positional play, where there is a chance to be very aggressive. I have been told accelerated dragon fits into these categories. Is that correct?

kindaspongey

In his 2008 review of an accelerated dragon product, FM Carsten Hansen refers to "solid positional lines".

https://web.archive.org/web/20140627130915/http://www.chesscafe.com/text/hansen106.pdf

The May 2017 issue of Chess lists the top twenty openings compiled from a list of 1810 March 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: 65 Najdorf Sicilians, 37 Kan Sicilians, and 35 2 Nf3 d6 sideline Sicilians