TD wrote on 12/08/21 at 16:27:33:


Thanks TD. I've already got that but not looked at it yet.

@Stigma,

I saw you were a beta tester on the Accelerated Dragon Lifetime repertoire by Plichta. Just wondering what your thoughts are and how it handles the most challenging lines that people have been discussing in these threads?

(I haven't played the Accelerated Dragon before, but have been thinking of doing so or returning to Dragon proper).

Thanks

Syzygy wrote on 12/29/19 at 22:15:04:


How is this possible if the Najdorf requires the knight to be still on b8.

MNb wrote on 12/29/19 at 07:12:43:

You mean IM Cummings, right?

Syzygy wrote on 12/28/19 at 23:55:46:

Perhaps, but Black immediately starts counterplay with 17....d5.
Instead simply 14.Rac1, there is no arguing with 21½ out of 30 games (and only two wins for Black).

IM Cummings (thanks, Stigma) very well demonstrates how to tackle the Accelerated Dragon with the Maroczy Wall in his book on the English.

Also, I believe I've discovered a "solution" to Shaw's repertoire (i.e. a way to forcibly make a draw if Black is precise, not that that's necessarily appealing in practice). So after 1 e4 c5 2 Nf3 g6 3 d4 cxd4 4 Nxd4 Nc6 5 c4 Nf6 6 Nc3 d6 7 f3 Bg7 (if we assume that playing the Gurgenidze with ...a5 isn't so good now that White has gone f3 instead of Be2, which of course is potentially debatable) 8 Be3 0-0 9 Be2 Nxd4 10 Bxd4 a6!? (I initially wanted to play 10...Be6 [+ ...Qa5, etc.], now that White is committed to an early f2-f3, but Shaw's idea of playing f3-f4 anyway is quite strong, as far as I can tell) 11 Qd2 Be6 12 Nd5 b5!? 13 cxb5 axb5 14 Bxb5 Bxd5 15 exd5, when Shaw looks at 15...Bh6!?, which requires White to be precise but should be good for him, and the computer points out 15...Ne4!, when it looks like best play is a forcing sequence to a Rook ending that should end in a draw.

I can add that Shaws book and Hyper Accelerated book do not met  completely in Ng4 line, Shaw even wrote this in hes book but gave no details on concrete moves only wrote transpositions.  As I recall, in that line Shaw only covered a Qa5 move in a position where Hyper Accelerated book moved Qd7 in a similar position (tricky transpositions).

EDIT. Shaws books did on the other hand look very  convincing vs Gurgenitze where he plays f3 instead of Be2 and plays Na4 vs a5.