Play The Sicilian Dragon 🐉 80/20 Tactics Multiplier with IM Valeri Lilov

The Sicilian Defense Dragon Variation is considered to be one of the sharpest chess openings you can play. It is also known to be one of the most extensively analyzed opening systems in chess and one of the most-feared counterattacking options against the move 1.e4. It is an early declaration of war to any e4-player and usually leads to breathtaking dynamic and double-edged positions.

The Sicilian Dragon is a chess opening which has been played in World Championship Matches (It was used by Kasparov to twice defeat Vishy Anand in their World Championship Match in 1995, for example), and which has been called “unplayable” and believed dead – but it always rises again, more powerful than before.

“Refutations” of the Sicilian Dragon have been refuted over the years and many adherents of the Sicilian Dragon have spent countless hours looking for improvements, novelties and modernizations.

It has been regularly played by Super Grandmasters such as Magnus Carlsen, Garry Kasparov, Vassily Ivanchuk, Teimour Radjabov and Hikaru Nakamura. It is an opening you either love or hate and one of those chess openings which you do not simply play casually, but about which you become passionate.

The Sicilian Dragon offers you a fighting opening for Black against the move 1.e4. And let’s face it – it even has a great name, “Dragon!” As JRR Tolkien said, “It simply isn’t an adventure worth telling if there aren’t any dragons.”

In this exclusive preview of the brand new 80/20 Tactics series, IM Valeri Lilov looks at some of the general recurring themes in the opening. In the full course, he goes over the the essential tactics in the Sicilian Dragon and gives you a complete understanding of typical tactical patterns for both sides, looking at everything from model games, key tactical ideas, structure, active piece play, and more.

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