Without warning my 2nd place has lead to a final.
I think top 3 entered the final since I think there was 2 groups.
I am expecting lots of Marocy Bind since in final one mets more critical lines. 

Lucky for my I have played this opening a lot in blitz and rapid.

I had planned to enter a norm tournament next rating period. I will delay it as direct effekt to not play in too many games .

Not relaterad to this thread but even Marocy can lead to opposete side castling. 
Shaw has more than one line in hes white repertour book where white castles queenside.

I won a rated corr game today as white  where opponent diverted from Shaws lines but I followed hes concept and got a strong attack.

XChess1971 wrote on 07/16/20 at 22:44:21:

How brillliant of you! I only realized this  a quarter of a century ago. Let me tell you a little secret I have revealed only a dozen times thus far on this very forum. I prefer the Kalashnikov to allowing the Maroczy.


XChess1971 wrote on 07/16/20 at 22:44:21:

Which still cannot arise via the Accelerated Dragon, so you still are not even wrong.

XChess1971 wrote on 07/16/20 at 22:44:21:

And I never claimed you did.

XChess1971 wrote on 07/16/20 at 22:44:21:

Thanks for confirming that your comments are irrelevant in this thread. This is the point, silly. Those who play the Accelerated Dragon don't have any ambition to "become one of them". Or they would start playing 2...d6.

[moderator hat on] Your next comment in this thread about the Accelerated Dragon, please. [moderator hat off]

XChess1971 wrote on 07/16/20 at 12:29:10:



Those who prefer the Accelerated Dragon are not real Dragon players.<-------- I never said that! When I said 'Real Dragon Players" I meant that by knowledge and experience you become one of them. I myself played and play the Accelerated and Hyper Accelerated as well.
The knowledge is not based only the basics of an opening it goes further than that.
I'll give an example 1.g3 e5 2.Bg2 d5 3.c4 Nf6 4.cxd5 Nxd5 5.Nc3 Nb6 6.d3 Nc6 7.Bxc6 bxc6 isn't this an Accelerated Dragon with Reversed colors?
Those are tactical and strategical motifs part of an opening system. My comment intended no offense. And those are played in the Accelerated. And I am pretty sure that you know of Kalashnikov much more than me! So you are a real Kalashnikov player!


XChess1971 wrote on 07/16/20 at 12:29:10:

And thus your answer doesn't make any sense.<-----------------I guess I answered that with............

I forgot to mention that 1.e4 c5 2.Nf3 d6 3.d4 cxd4 4.Nxd4 Bf6 5.Nc3 g6 6.Be3 Bg7 7.f3 0-0 8.Qd2 Nc6 9.Bc4 Bd7 10.0-0-0 Rc8 11.Bb3 Ne5 12.h4 instead of playing 12...h5 previously was played 12...Nc4. So in case of 10.h4 I am not sure how the 12...Nc4 players would handle it at that point. I have only played Soltis in my life so I never worried about it. But if I ever reached the position with 10.0-0-0 Rc8 11.Bb3 Ne5 12.h4 I remember I had the option of going into 12....Nc4. So if somebody played me 10.h4 I was never worried because I would answer 10...h5.
In case of 10.h4 black will go 10...h5 11.0-0-0 Rc8 12.Bb3 Ne5 or 11.Bb3 Rc8 12.0-0-0 Ne5.



With the point that White has been forced to play Bb3 at an early stage. True Dragon players can't be bothered; those who play the Accelerated Dragon are more ambitious. They know better than allowing 10.Qd2 (iso 10.h4) Rc8?!  (Nxd4! Parma and Forintos) 11.O-O-O Ne5 12.Kb1. Because that's an important point of playing 2...Nc6.<----------------Those who play the Accelerated will have to deal with the Maroczy. So be prepared! Also on your last paragraph  10...Rc8 is not dubious after 11.0-0-0 black still can enter the Topalov with 11...Nxd4.

And if you wanna answer 1.e4 c5 2.Nf3 Nc6 3.Nc3 with 3...g6 4.d4 cxd4 5.Nxd4 with 5...Bg7 you had to keep in mind what are you going to play if 3.d4 arises. Otherwise you'll have to stick to the Kalashnikov.



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But a real Dragon player knows what is best!

10.h4 is simply replied by 10...h5. On 10.Bb3 black can play either 10...Nxd4 or 10...Rc8.

bragesjo wrote on 07/16/20 at 09:31:21:

That makes me curious as I found this harder to meet for Black than O-O-O first.
But I can wait until tomorrow. 

brasjego, what are the Weaknesses in Negis Book?