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If you’re the kind of chess player who lives for ultra-sharp, attacking games and are ready to play for a win every time you sit down at the board, then the Sicilian Defense: Accelerated Dragon variation should be in your repertoire!

The Accelerated Dragon 🐉 is one of the most aggressive chess openings for Black against 1.e4. As the name suggests, the Acclerated Dragon improves on the standard Sicilian Defense Dragon variation by leaving out the d7-d6 move. Instead, Black gets to fianchetto his Dragon bishop and castle one move earlier.

Does Black lose anything by not playing …d6? No, Black actually GAINS by later playing d7-d5 in ONE move! That’s what makes the Accelerated Dragon one of the best chess openings for Black: a great position with dynamic possibilities and the luxury of an extra move!

The Accelerated Dragon is very versatile as it can be easily transposed to from a variety of Sicilian Defense variations.
In this video, a free chapter from his 2.5+ hour chess course “Destroy White with the Accelerated Dragon”, Grandmaster Eugene Perelshteyn, introduces the basic move orders, tactical motifs, and positional concepts of this fascinating chess opening for Black.

GM Perelshteyn, a lifelong player of the Accelerated Dragon, shows the immediate benefits of the Accelerated Dragon over the Sicilian Defense Dragon variation.

In the standard Dragon, White can launch a scarily rapid kingside attack by hurling his g and h-pawns down the board and ripping the position open. Bobby Fischer used to say that winning against the Sicilian Dragon is easy, it’s just a case of “sac,sac and mate!” And Bobby Fischer proved that MANY times over the board, against as players as skilled as Bent Larsen.

But that doesn’t happen in the Accelerated Dragon! What’s the best antidote to an attack on a wing? A counter in the center! Having wasted no time on the ineffectual …d6, Black is able to play …d5 immediately. And suddenly White has no time for a kingside attack as the center is getting ripped open – and often his king is still stuck there!

Check out this superb video for more insights into why the Accelerated Dragon should be your new favorite opening for Black!

The Accelerated Dragon has been proven extensively at the highest levels of chess, evidenced by its regular use by strong Grandmasters including Vladimir Kramnik, Viktor Korchnoi, Vassily Ivanchuk and Alexander Morozevich.

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