Author: Randy Schmidt
Date: 06:39:47 02/04/00
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On February 03, 2000 at 23:46:25, Rich Shippy wrote: >Which defence is easier to learn, the Dragon or the Accelerated Dragon? >Which defence is a better response to e4, the Dragon or Accelerated Dragon? >I want to learn one of the Sicilian systems as black but do not know which one >to choose. Maybe I should play the Najdorf, please help. Playing the Accelerated Dragon (to avoid the Yugoslav Attack), entails 2 risks. 1. Marcozy Bind. I do not know too many Dragon players who are comfortable playing against this as black. Play is completely different in this variation than what most Dragon players are looking for. The bind on d5 is quite annoying. 2. In this line, 1.e4 c5 2.Nf3 Nc6 3.d4 cxd4 4.Nxd4 g6 5.Nc3 Bg7 6.Be3 Nf6 7.Bc4 Qa5 (to force white to play 8.0-0 and thus avoid the transposition into the Yugoslav): I do not like these variations as black when compared to the regular lines of the Classical Dragon where play is similar. Neither the Dragon or Acc Dragon are easy to learn, but for the reasons above I prefer the REAL Dragon. Of course the REAL man's defense is the Najdorf :) That many world champions can't be wrong :)
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