Hyper Accelerated Dragon Fighting 5.Nxc6 While Singing

Submitted by chessmagic5 on Mon, 10/05/2009 at 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 analysis on white's early exchange of knights on c6-square (5.Nxc6).

No problem, my friend chessman_calum, let us scrutinize the position arising from 1.e4 c5 2.Nf3 g6 3.d4 cxd4 4.Nxd4 Nc6 5.Nxc6 below:

Ehr! What's with this white knight taking on c6? This reminds me of a story about a knight who is a bit too sea-sick (sounds like c6) to slay a mighty dragon! Yes, reminds me also of the song that goes like this: "Puff, the magic dragon lived by the sea and frolicked in the autumn mist in a land called Hannalee..."

As dragon wielders facing 5.Nxc6 should we get worried or maybe just laugh our guts out singing? Let's find out and start analyzing below:

There we go. As we saw black is doing alright and so I invite you all of you dragoneers out there to sing with me...

Play the video and all together now, sing!

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Comments:

by chessman_calum - 53 days ago
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sorry Joemz! I shall shut up now :-D

by chessmagic5 - 54 days ago
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Huh? 16.Bd6?? exd6. Look clearly first before asking. We dont want to spam this thread you know. :-)

by chessman_calum - 54 days ago
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Ok, instead of taking the pawn, couldn't white play Bd6 winning the rook?

by chessmagic5 - 54 days ago
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chessman_calum,

Notice that black is a pawn up. He should be alright.

by chessman_calum - 54 days ago
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Thanks Joemz, What happens if white doesn't take the pawn, surely his position is better?

by itsMEEHdude - 54 days ago
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Ok tnx joemz for this info!

by chessmagic5 - 55 days ago
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chessman_calum,

Thank you for the feedback. I guess you are talking about the 9.Bb3 line where the analysis ended at 15...Rc7. Ok I have now extended the analysis, see the annotated game again. Hopefully the extended analysis will be good enough for you to feel comfortable of the resulting position. Cheers!

by killer-2 - 55 days ago
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puff the magic dragon...

LOL

by chessman_calum - 55 days ago
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Thanks Joemz! I was really looking forward to this article and appreciate the amount of time and effort you have put into it :).

I agree with zurca, I am also exploring this opening. I really like these articles, so clever and complex. Although, one thing I don't understand is, in your variation after move 9 (Re1), it finishes and ends up on move 15, it is still equal. It looks like white has an advantage!

Kind regards, Calum