Sicilian: Accelerated Dragon

1.e4 c5 2.Nf3 Nc6 3.d4 cxd4 4.Nxd4 g6 · you play black

3 chapters, 8 moves deep, get you to 93% of what you will actually meet. The other 1 covers the last 3%.

I show you every line first. Then I ask, and I only teach the moves you miss.

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How this goes wrong at your level

Counted from 4,500,000 games by players in your band. These are moves that get played often and then lose — no engine was asked for an opinion.

What you are most likely to fall for

1.e4 c5 2.Nf3 Nc6 3.d4 cxd4 4.Nxd4 g6 5.Nxc6 bxc6 6.Qd4

Bg7 — played 5% of the time here.

You score 3% after it, against 50% for everything else played from this position, over 35 games.

Instead:

Nf6

52%

f6

46%

Found by testing 94,688 decisions in your band’s games and keeping only those where the drop in score is more than four standard errors below the alternatives. About 3.17 of these would be expected by chance alone.

Your moves are chosen by the engine and checked against 3,439,091 games (Lichess Elite (2500+ vs 2300+), 2024-12 → 2025-11); their replies are what people actually play. Evaluations from Lichess Stockfish evaluations (database.lichess.org) (CC0 1.0 Universal), covering 85% of this course.