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rare system in the Maroczy
Hi everybody,
do you know, what is the best way to counter 1.e4 c5 2.Sf3 g6 3.d4 Lg7 4.c4 Sf6 5.Sc3 and now not the standard cxd4 but 5...Qa5
I looked this up in database and saw, there two ...

Started 03/20/09 at 19:11:36 by MatrixX
6 4582 Last Post 03/22/09 at 16:23:46
By: MatrixX
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Nov. Update on Accelerated Dragondorf
The industrious British GM's churned out another top-class set of annotations- but unfortunately the critical line of the Accelerated Dragondorf seems to have been skipped over. I refer after 14. f4 t...

Started 11/17/09 at 10:18:35 by ACSian
6 7238 Last Post 11/25/09 at 05:30:49
By: ACSian
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Is a trap a trap?
I have a question regarding the trap after: 1. e4, c5; 2. Nf3, Nc6; 3. d4, cd; 4. Nd4, g6; 5. Nc3, Bg7; 6. Be3, Nf6; 7. Bc4, 0-0; 8. f3 (?!), Qb6 (!); 9. Bb3.
After both 9. ... Ne4 and Ng4, and t...

Started 11/23/04 at 16:37:26 by jimmy
7 4430 Last Post 04/18/05 at 17:00:01
By: CheckMate (Guest)
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Maroczy bind (Ehlvest-Perelshteyn)
Hi.
I'm new to this forum and as a subscriber. I'm in the playing group average club level, but like to analyse.
In the game:
[Event "It 'World Open'"]
[Site "Philadelphia (USA)"]<...

Started 08/24/07 at 11:23:29 by Odd Gunnar Malin
2 2543 Last Post 08/25/07 at 06:13:14
By: OstapBender
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Accelerated Dragon move order question
Some who knows what wrong with the move order 1. e4 c5 2. Nf3 Nc6 3. d4 cxd4 4. Nxd4 Nf6 5. Nc3 g6!?
Doesn't this avoid the Maroczy line?
Where is the refutation?

Started 04/18/05 at 16:41:47 by CheckMate (Guest)
4 3166 Last Post 04/20/05 at 12:41:53
By: CheckMate (Guest)
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Accelerated Dragon
I understand that a new edition of "The Sicilian Accelerated Dragon: Improve Your Results with New Ideas in This Dynamic Opening" by Peter Heine Nielsen and Carsten Hansen is currently in preparation....

Started 02/22/05 at 15:40:54 by gss1 (Guest)
4 3654 Last Post 04/22/05 at 10:41:21
By: pi (Guest)
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Masroczy bind ideas in acc. dragon
Hi,
I wonder if someone could give a beginner at openings theory a briefing on the different ideas in the maroczy bind situation that can appear in the dragon. The main question is how white play...

Started 06/05/07 at 12:58:21 by chesscheese
6 5396 Last Post 06/13/07 at 19:19:46
By: JudgeDeath
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Accelerated with d6
1 e4 c5 2 Nf3 Nc6 3 d4 cxd4 4 Nxd4 g6 5 Nc3 Bg7 6 Be3 d6!?
Is there a sharp rejoinder to this move, as there normally seems to be in similar variations?   
Perhaps white can try and steer thi...

Started 10/05/04 at 23:21:02 by nexirae
3 3083 Last Post 10/17/04 at 15:39:42
By: geo5
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New book on Accelerated Dragon
Quote from IM Andrew Greet on 03/09/07 at 13:35:03: "I'm currently working on a second book for Everyman entitled 'Starting Out: Accelerated Dragon'. (Maybe in due course I'll start another thread to ...

Started 03/16/07 at 02:58:27 by ano
3 3118 Last Post 03/25/07 at 20:20:02
By: kalle99
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Transposing from Accelerated to regular dragon
Hi, 
It seems to me that white players who do not wish to play the Marcozy bind can force a transposition into the Yugoslav attack through these moves: 
1.e4 c5 2.Nf3 Nc6 3.d4 cd4 4.Nd4 g6 5...

Started 10/16/05 at 09:01:46 by kriegerstein
1 2070 Last Post 10/16/05 at 09:37:44
By: Smyslov_Fan
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Is the accelerated dragon a good opening ?
Is the accelerated dragon a good opening ? Why is it not played by the 2600 ELO players ?
What is the reason for this ? There must be a drawback. Is it because of the the Maroczy bind only ?<br /...

Started 03/31/07 at 18:44:03 by kalle99
7 7545 Last Post 05/19/07 at 11:26:58
By: exigentsky
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Uogele help
Hi 
I have a question about the Uogele. 
1.e4 c5 2.Nf3 Nc6 3.d4 cxd4 4.Nxd4 g6 5.Nc3 Bg7 6.Be3 Nf6 7.Bc4 0-0 8.Bb3 a5 9.0-0 a4 10.Nxa4 Nxe4 11.Nb5 d6 
What to do after 12.Qe2?  This var...

Started 07/09/05 at 23:49:08 by simpsonb
3 3811 Last Post 08/15/05 at 18:33:29
By: TopNotch
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The Hyper-Accelerated Dragon move order issue
I play Accelerated Dragon against 1.e4 players. Sometimes I go for normal move order (i.e. 2....Nc6) and sometimes hyper-accelerated 2...g6 version. Even here, namely after 1.e4 c5 2.Nf3 g6 3.d4, havi...

Started 08/23/09 at 10:09:39 by Kubi
0 2524 Last Post 08/23/09 at 10:09:38
By: Kubi
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Acc. Dragon sideline
Does anybody know an antidote to 1.e4 c5 2.Nf3 Nc6 3.d4 cxd4 4.Nxd4 g6 5.Nc3 Bg7 6.Be3 Nf6 7.Bc4 Ne5?  Normal appears to be 8.Bb3 Neg4.  Here De la Villa gives 9.Bf4 e5 10.Ndb5 d5! 11.Nxd5 Nxd5 12.Qxd...

Started 07/19/10 at 13:32:41 by Markovich
2 2745 Last Post 07/20/10 at 09:17:09
By: Bonsai
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Poll: What is the best book on the Accelerated Dragon?
Wondering what everybody thinks is the best book on this opening. Since there was some controversy (Tiviakov's comments), the topic interests me.

Started 04/26/09 at 06:30:23 by ghenghisclown
6 7354 Last Post 04/29/09 at 14:19:06
By: Holbox
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Forcing a Yugoslav out of the Accelerated dragon
Asking anybody to share there experiences playing white to force a Yugoslav style regular dragon out of the accelerated dragon by playing a Bc4 , Be3 , f3 set up . Where can White go wrong and where c...

Started 01/19/08 at 03:03:12 by krieger
5 3744 Last Post 01/20/08 at 11:43:21
By: bragesjo
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Accelerated dragon variation good for white?
This position that is reached after the following moves seems to be extremely critical. Can white gain an opening advantage after 13.h5 and if so what does that continutation look like?
I read on...

Started 07/21/09 at 11:20:01 by greymattermatters
3 2931 Last Post 07/21/09 at 13:23:00
By: bragesjo
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Hyperaccelerated Dragon : pseudo Benoni lines
These lines begin after :
1 e4 c5
2 Nf3 g6
3 d4 Bg7
Statistics for these lines disagree between different databases , and they are rather badly covered by books on Accelerated Drag...

Started 03/28/06 at 08:49:58 by photophore
5 4430 Last Post 04/05/06 at 23:33:06
By: I need to know(Guest) (Guest)
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Maroczy bind 7. ...Ng4 in Accelerated dragon
Hi,   
In Andrew Greet's book Starting Out: The Accelerated Dragon one of the chapters is devoted to 
1. e4 c5 2. Nf3 Nc6 3. d4 cxd4 4. Nxd4 g6 5.  c4 Bg7 6. Be3 Nf6
7.  Nc3  Ng4   
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Started 12/21/10 at 03:17:14 by Highfive
1 4171 Last Post 12/21/10 at 11:03:43
By: TicklyTim
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B38: accel dragon - Maroczy with early f3
This is a bit of a crossover question.
In the KID Saemisch it seems that Black can transpose to the Marozcy, though it never seems to occur. I'm interested in this for two reasons, because I'm co...

Started 03/15/11 at 11:56:00 by TicklyTim
4 5818 Last Post 04/08/11 at 14:20:32
By: bragesjo
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