Open Sicilian,Accelerated Dragadorf Variation

The Accelerated Dragadorf, Basically If your a Crazy attacking player like me you definitely need to give this one a shot.

The Dragadorf is New line in the Sicilian Dragon that got me hooked at first glance. Now before that let me give you a brief run down starting form the Opening. The Open Sicilian is usually defined by e4,c5,Nf3,d6,d4,cxd4,Nxd4,Nf6(forcing white to defend the e4 pawn),Nc3,g6,Be3(if Bb5+ simply Nd7 and the bishop must retreat or faces getting kicked around by blacks queen side pawns)

and the Key new move .........

a6!....lol, Am i joking? Not one bit! Usually black plays Bg7 and a typical Dragon position arises. But with a6 its a hole new ball game.

Best play for white is to continue development and aim for a Yugoslav type set up, with Qb2 and 0-0-0 later on. So 7.f3(typical play) and b5! The idea here for black is to develop with Bb7. Black doesn't waist time with Bg7 because in most variations white forces a trade of Bishops with Qd2 and Bh6. Now black has a lead on the queen side and good pressure in the center, and if white decides to go all out on a king side attack...... then don't casile! Its actually very common to leave the king in the center in the Dragadorf, and infact he is quite safe there.

The founder of this opening was Gm Chris Ward, a great author and leading expert on the Dragon Sicilian, so i advise not to take it lightly.

Ill leave you with a game that i found showing some interesting positional errors by white, Note that this is not a High level game (2600+) frankly the opening is still fresh out of the box and will probably take some time to catch on.



I also came across a fairly high rated game that was played not to long ago, its the Dragadorf but not the Accelerated variation were Black holds back development with Bg7.