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The Accelerated Dragon is an excellent choice for all ambitious chess players who are looking for a dynamic opening, which does not force you to learn an endless amount of theory and still enables you to go for the full point against weaker players.
What’s more – the Accelerated Dragon is the only Sicilian where Black does not need to worry about getting mated in 20 moves. In the regular Dragon Variation or the Najdorf Variation, for example, White can quickly launch a mating attack against Black’s king. Against the Accelerated Dragon, all these quick attacking ideas like the dangerous Yugoslav Attack, an aggressive line for White against the regular Dragon Variation, simply don’t work.
So, if all the common aggressive setups don’t work for White against the Sicilian Defense, which variation stop many chess players from using the Accelerated Dragon as their main weapon against 1.e4?
While playing the Accelerated Dragon (instead of the un-accelerated Dragon) stops White from playing the Yugoslav AttAccelerated Dragon Maroczy Bind: Crush White quicklyack, it allows White to go for the Maroczy Bind.
The Maroczy Bind is characterized by White pawns on the squares c4 and e4, with White’s d-pawn having been exchanged for Black’s c-pawn (see the diagram on the right). This opening setup is named after the Hungarian grandmaster Géza Maróczy. Many players still think that Black faces a tough defensive task in the Maroczy structures and suffers the whole game without any real chances of counterplay.
However, this is not true. Many Accelerated Dragon experts like Grandmasters Mamedov, Iturrizaga or Tiviakov have demonstrated fantastic counterattacking prospects for Black in the Maroczy Bind.
In this free chess video, GM Damian Lemos shows you an unknown but highly effective sideline for Black against the Accelerated Dragon Maroczy Bind which provides you with excellent chances to quickly take over the initiative.
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