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Acc Dragon: 5.Nb3

1.e4 e5 2.Nf3 Nc6 3.d4 cxd4 4.Nxd4 g6 5.Nc3 Bg7 6.Nb3

I faced this, in a slightly different move order(Nc3 before D4) in an OTB game yesterday, and I had to spend some time on how to continue. I was unable to find anything in the course, (After the game of course) so that's my question. What to do after 6.Nb3?

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In the accelerated there are many sequences not covered. Most of the really critical ones are given some coverage in the course. However when the course was made I believe it wasn't intended to comprehensively cover all the options, and many were left out down to playing healthy chess because of the time given everything else to record.

The background is that originally ChessMood was aimed towards the stronger end of the spectrum, and they were to teach the najdorf. However I think they realised they'd bitten off far more than they could chew with the amount to cover and settled for the accelerated instead. Even then it still couldn't cover everything, particularly what lower rated players were getting who could not handle it comfortably themselves. I believe that's why the decision was to teach the French to the sub-2000 chess.coms and eventually there will be an advanced version which I suspect will the be the main option for a higher rated band.

There has been talk of an accelerated reboot (no idea what would be covered), but honestly with so many other priorities I don't see it appearing any time soon.

For comparison Plichta's Chessable course covers virtually everything but the course video is 50 hours, though including a maroczy subline and some smaller Sicilian sidelines than offered here! (You can get by without it as he appears just to cover what is written). Learning all that...  Good luck, though a great reference and complementary to what is here.

To answer the specific question, Bg7 first avoids Bg5 troubles leaving Bxc3 an option and after Nb3, d6 possibly with the option of Be6 and/or Nf6 going into a dragon line which at least at the higher levels is harmless.

Hi Armandas,

The comfortable system in my opinion is 6…Nf6 7.Be2 0-0 8.0-0 d6 and play this Dragon style position where the Knight on b3 is not really active.
In future Black can use the c file for the rook.

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Anti-Sicilian Part 3 question. 3....Nc6.

Hi Coach!

I recently faced the following line on chess.com

e4 c5

Nc3 e6

f4 Nc6?! 

I wasn't able to find this 3... Nc6 move in the material, it seems like a combination of several of the other lines. Can you (or anyone in the community) please confirm what to play against this?

Thanks!

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After 4.Sf3 it should transpose to something known. 4...d5 or4...d6 we can play Bb5. And after 4...a6, 5.g3.  

I've watched only 1 and 2 parts of Antisicilians, I will try to answer after watching others too. I think somehow it should be transposed one of the positions. 

I didn't watch it yet, but I guess it has to be transpose.

Hi Benjamin!

You can be playing with 4.Nf3 as @Mogens_Nielsen mentioned it will be a transposition.

Reminds me of another move order trick:

1. e4 e6 2. d4 (French?) c5 (nope, sicilian) and now you've committed to d4.

which you can decide to play an Open Sicilian (Nf3), Benoni type position (d5) or c3 Sicilian / French Tarrasch IQP (c3 / Nd2) - none of which are in the repertoire, but the c3 Sicilian / French Tarrasch is played similar to the c5 lines in the Schlecter French where the cost of c3 is no worse than the cost of Bd3 and scores well at club level - you could probably transpose it though Bb5+ is likely to be more useful than Bd3.

We talked about this too during our GMs meeting and of course, there are many possible transpositions to our opening and some move orders can be strange to meet the first time. That said we always try to stir the situation towards a familiar battlefield. Our piece deployment should be consistent and we must be comfortable with the positions that we will reach. I just put together some initial moves where you can see that we always aim for the same and there are many possibilities that you should try and investigate by yourselves too. Find the position that you have more feeling for...

Hello, i got yesterday on the board, the following game. and it went to the line here (previous post, variation with 4. Bb5) :

1. e4 c5 2. Nc3 e6 3. f4 Nc6 4. Bb5 Nge7 5. Nf3 a6 6. Bxc6 Nxc6 7. d3 Be7 8. O-O O-O 9. Ne2 Qc7 10. Ng3 f5 11. Ng5 d6 12. Qh5 h6 13. Be3 Bf6 14. c3 hxg5 15. fxg5

losing the knight and the game. but i was not sure what to play at move 4. 

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Opening Question

Hi everyone, I have been facing a problem in the accelerated dragon, here is the pgn: https://lichess.org/study/MJTQlSTw/CsyiFgnP

 

[Event "Karpov_ChessMood's Study: Chapter 1"]
[Site "https://lichess.org/study/MJTQlSTw/CsyiFgnP"]
[Result "*"]
[UTCDate "2023.11.27"]
[UTCTime "15:14:15"]
[Variant "Standard"]
[ECO "B34"]
[Opening "Sicilian Defense: Accelerated Dragon, Modern Variation"]
[Annotator "https://lichess.org/@/Karpov_ChessMood"]

1. e4 c5 2. Nf3 Nc6 3. d4 cxd4 4. Nxd4 g6 5. Nc3 Bg7 6. Be3 Nf6 7. f3 O-O 8. Qd2!? { f3 was covered in the course but Qd2 was not.
many opponents play this against me, opponent is playing type of yugoslav attack. } { [%cal Ge1c1] } *

 

Hope you can help!

Thanks!

 

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d5 next - now depends if o-o-o or something else.

Probably some examples in the streams.

It is here:

https://chessmood.com/course/sicilian-defence-accelerated-dragon/episode/257

Of course 8..d5, thats the main idea of the Accelerated Dragon compared to the Dragon- to play d5 in one go.

French schlecter 'trap'

An interesting trap I fell into, quite likely played for.

After 1. e4 e6 2. d4 d5 3. Bd3 dxe4 4. Bxe4 Nf6 5. Bf3 c6?! 6. Ne2 Bd6 7. O-O O-O 8. Nd2 Qc7 9. g3 (there are engine lines of letting h2 go which I don't understand the compensation) Nbd7 - now Nc4 is tempting, but Bg2 is the best here. After 10. Nc4 e5, now Bg2 is still possible, but after 11. Nxd6 Qxd6 12. dxe5 (could still play Bg2) Qxd1 13. Rxd1 Nxe5 14. Bg2 - life starts to get hard with Bg4! (which I saw but too late). 15. Bf1?! (the trap) was wrong where 15. Re1 offers a drawish looking positions and 15. Kd1 Nf3 16. h3 Nxf3+ is perpetual.

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You mean 5.Bf3, right!?

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I think that it cycles after you complete a certain number of puzzles.

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I've been here since February, and have seen a couple of repeats. I have a really good memory for puzzles, but it's only been 3ish that I remember.

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I installed the PGN files and idk how to open them. I have an old ChessBase 13 but it's too laggy and can't even open PGN files. So I need help

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Sicilian 2..Nc6, a6 line

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hi all, I just spotted a nice tactic that wasn't shown in the course on Sicilian 2..Nc6 and 4..a6, maybe becuase the tactic was too obvious, but I liked it so thought I would share it. The line in the video by Avetik goes 1 e4 c5 2 Nc3 Nc6 3 Bb5 Nd4 4 Nf3 a6 5 Bd3 Nc6 6 0-0 g6 7 e5 Bg7 8 Re1 d6 8 exd6 Qxd6 9 Ne4 and then the video finishes with the queen under attack so we get a free tempo. But, the c5 pawn is under attack too so I was thinking that black must have to play something like 9..Qd5 to protect the pawn and escape the knight but now 10 Bc4 looks to be crushing black as 10..Qxc4 11 Nd6+ wins the queen. Anything else and either 11 Nxc5 or Nd6+. I checked lichess and the position 9..Qd5 had come up 56 times but white only spotted 10 Bc4 19 times. Just thought I would mention it.  

See the position below in lichess.

 

Avetik, you should add it to your video!

https://lichess.org/analysis#20

 

 

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Thanks Paul! 

Nice of you to tell us. It is indeed a good observation!😀

Breaking down multiple elements.

Hi guys. I'm looking for advice on how to understand the value multiple elements in this position from Caruana-Xiong for example. Black gives up his “good” Bishop for White's “bad” Bishop, but gets more centre cpntrol and a semi open f file in return. I know that GMs don't have this kind of internal dialog when assessing such decisions, but are there guidelines the rest of us can use to weigh multiple elements in decision making? Thanks!   

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Also just now I noticed it, the posts i had made until now in the forum have been deleted. Hope you will be able to help!

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Question on French 3.Nc3

Hi

I recently had a game as black where I had problems with the variation

1.e4 e6 2. d4 d5 3. Nc3 Nf6 4. Bg5 h6 5. Bxf6 Qxf6 6. ed Bb4 7. Bb5+ Bd7 8.Bxd7+ Nxd7 9 dxe6

I don't understand what compensation I have for the pawn. This variation (the second most popular after 7. dxe6 at my level and the most popular at master level) is not mentioned in the blackmood course. 

Can someone please explain the ideas in this variation?

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