The Accelerated Dragon Powerbook 2018

The choice of games for the Accelerated Dragon Powerbook was extremely rigorous, only high-value material was taken into account. Roughly 78 000 games from the engine room of Playchess as well as just 10.000 games played by humans constitute the basis of the book. The computer games chosen reveal a surprise. After the moves 1.e4 c5 2.Nf3 Nc6 3.d4 cxd4 4.Nxd4 g6 5.c4 Bg7 6.Be3 the most frequently played move is not 6...Nf6, but 6...Qb6!? (only no. 4 in Mega). In addition the queen move also displays excellent statistics. This is the material from which future secret weapons will be forged!