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ECO B74: Sicilian Defense: Dragon Variation

ECO B74 is part of volume B, Semi-Open Games. The Lichess chess-openings dataset files 7 named lines under it. The shortest is Sicilian Defense: Dragon Variation, Classical Variation, Normal Line: 1. e4 c5 2. Nf3 d6 3. d4 cxd4 4. Nxd4 Nf6 5. Nc3 g6 6. Be2 Bg7 7. O-O O-O 8. Be3 Nc6 9. Nb3. All of them are lines of the Sicilian Defense: Dragon Variation.

That position has come up in 83,601 Lichess games between players rated 1600 to 2500: White won 48.7%, 6.3% were drawn and Black won 45.0%.

OpeningMovesGamesLength
Sicilian Defense: Dragon Variation, Classical Variation, Normal Line 1. e4 c5 2. Nf3 d6 3. d4 cxd4 4. Nxd4 Nf6 5. Nc3 g6 6. Be2 Bg7 7. O-O O-O 8. Be3 Nc6 9. Nb3 84K 9 moves
Sicilian Defense: Dragon Variation, Classical Variation, Alekhine Line 1. e4 c5 2. Nf3 Nc6 3. d4 cxd4 4. Nxd4 g6 5. Nc3 Bg7 6. Be3 Nf6 7. Be2 O-O 8. O-O d6 9. Nb3 a5 8,338 9 moves
Sicilian Defense: Dragon Variation, Classical Variation, Maróczy Line 1. e4 c5 2. Nf3 d6 3. d4 cxd4 4. Nxd4 Nf6 5. Nc3 g6 6. Be2 Bg7 7. O-O O-O 8. Be3 Nc6 9. Nb3 Be6 10. f4 Na5 5,156 10 moves
Sicilian Defense: Dragon Variation, Classical Variation, Tartakower Line 1. e4 c5 2. Nf3 d6 3. d4 cxd4 4. Nxd4 Nf6 5. Nc3 g6 6. Be2 Bg7 7. O-O O-O 8. Be3 Nc6 9. Nb3 Be6 10. f4 Qc8 3,905 10 moves
Sicilian Defense: Dragon Variation, Classical Variation, Spielmann Variation 1. e4 c5 2. Nf3 Nc6 3. d4 cxd4 4. Nxd4 g6 5. Nc3 Bg7 6. Be3 Nf6 7. Be2 O-O 8. Nb3 d6 9. O-O Be6 10. f4 Na5 11. f5 Bc4 12. Bd3 559 12 moves
Sicilian Defense: Dragon Variation, Classical Variation, Bernard Defense 1. e4 c5 2. Nf3 g6 3. d4 cxd4 4. Nxd4 Nf6 5. Nc3 d6 6. Be2 Bg7 7. O-O O-O 8. Be3 Nc6 9. Nb3 Be6 10. f4 Na5 11. f5 Bc4 12. Bd3 Bxd3 13. cxd3 d5 10 13 moves
Sicilian Defense: Dragon Variation, Classical Variation, Stockholm Attack 1. e4 c5 2. Nc3 d6 3. f4 Nc6 4. Nf3 g6 5. d4 cxd4 6. Nxd4 Bg7 7. Be3 Nf6 8. Be2 O-O 9. Nb3 Be6 10. O-O Na5 11. f5 Bc4 12. Nxa5 Bxe2 13. Qxe2 Qxa5 14. g4 127 14 moves