Hi,
I'm a French Defense player (elo aprox 1950). But I saw last week a video called "The Accelerated Dragon Assault" or something like that in a friend house (in fact not the entire video) and I liked a lot the type of positions Black achieve in some variants, with very powerfull bishops, some nice tactics... And he told me that the amount of theory of their AccDragon is smaller than my French. I played some 5 min games against a 2050 player of my club last Saturday (not same opponent) and all the matches went with a Maroczy Bind plus an e6+d5 break from me to get dynamic (a little risky compared with my French) but playable positions.
But I have some questions:
1) Is really smaller that amount of theory to play that Acc. Dragon (compared with my Advance, Exchange, KIA, Guimard and Nc6-vs-Nc3 variants... of my French) ?
2) Options to win against passive/inferior opponents are enough to consider it as a 2nd weapon of my arsenal (compared to Exchange French, for example) ?
3) The options of Dragon Sicilians of being mated against a wild attack 0-0-0 + Bh6 + h4 + h5 and so on... are there also in Accelerated Variations?
4) Are Anti-Sicilians (Rossolimo, Alapin, Morra...) a huge amount of work now (and are they a really problem or not) ?
5) Is Greet Starting Out book enough at my level (I play against foes between 1900 and 2100) ?
I know the answers of my friend but I don't consider it enough; I hope he don't read this
Thx in advance, maybe I'm going to deal with you dragons in a future...