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A Reason to Play the Accelerated Dragon

Submitted by chessmagic5 on Thu Nov 19, 2009 12:27am.

The Accelerated Dragon has a tricky move order that often bust unsuspecting 1.e4 players who treat it as a regular Classical Dragon. Belonging to the 3 main Dragon Relatives, its move order is as follows: e4 c5 Nf3 Nc6 d4 cxd4 Nxd4 g6 (s... Read more »

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Hyper Accelerated Dragon Fighting 5.Nxc6 While Singing

Submitted by chessmagic5 on Mon Oct 5, 2009 11:34pm.

Greetings chess friends! Today's topic is in response to chessman_calum's comment/request from my previous  blog post, Hyper Accelerated Dragon: White's Death By Simplification (where the Bc4 mainline was analyzed), that I should include an an... Read more »

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Hyper Accelerated Dragon: White's Death By Simplification

Submitted by chessmagic5 on Wed Sep 23, 2009 6:08am.

Greetings chess friends! Once again in this new post a yet another instructive sampler game on my new pet opening the Hyper Accelerated Dragon. Why play the Hyper Accelerated Dragon? I personally like it because it is a low maintenance openi... Read more »

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Hyper Accelerated Dragon Against Early 4.Qxd4

Submitted by chessmagic5 on Sun Sep 20, 2009 2:04am.

Greetings chess friends! Like I said in my previous blog post, there are pros and cons with adopting the Hyper Accelerated Dragon move order. I have mentioned that the move order allows white to steer the position into a Maroczy Bind but these da... Read more »

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Chess Style Crisis

Submitted by chessmagic5 on Fri Sep 11, 2009 4:53am.

I'm sure you've heard of "indentity crisis" but what I am talking about here is the state when you are confused of what kind of chess style you know that you have. Just this year I have changed my opening repertoires, and immediately noticed that... Read more »

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Hyper Accelerated Dragon Move Order

Submitted by chessmagic5 on Sun Aug 9, 2009 12:40am.

Having played the real Sicilian Dragon (with early 2...d6 after 1...c5) for years I now turn my attention to another dragon, the Hyper Accelerated Dragon (with 2...g6). As with all opening move-orders there are pros and cons. On the positive sid... Read more »

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Not Afraid of the Maroczy Bind!

Submitted by chessmagic5 on Sat Aug 8, 2009 8:17pm.

Good day, my blog readers! Today is yet another interesting game using the Hyper Accelerated Dragon move order. Apparently, the drawback of the move order allows White to achieve a Maroczy Bind set-up with 4.c4 which makes it harder for black to ... Read more »

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Hyper Accelerated Dragon: A Post Mortem

Submitted by chessmagic5 on Thu Jul 30, 2009 10:59pm.

Hello my chess fans! (as if I have-haha!) I have been away for a while and I'm not that surprised to see my rating here at chess.com plummet. I have games lost to time-outs. Today I will share with you what I have learned from one of my 5 blitz... Read more »

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