B72a - 6…* - Dragon Variation (1951)

Structure de pions
♔ Blancs ♚ Noirs
Pions doublés — —
Pions isolés — —
Arriérés — —
Chaînes — ● e7→d6, f7→g6, h7→g6
Passés — —
Majorité ● aile dame 3v2 —
Cases
♔ Blancs ♚ Noirs
Cases fortes ● d4 (2v0), ● b5 (3v0), ● d5 (2v1) ● g4 (2v1)
Cases faibles — —
Centre ● d4 (2v0), ● d5 (2v1) ● e5 (1v0)
Colonnes et diagonales
♔ Blancs ♚ Noirs
Semi-ouvertes ● d ● c
Pièces
♔ Blancs ♚ Noirs
Bf1 ● Bf1 Non développé (mob. 5)
Be3 ● Be3 Actif (mob. 5)
Bc8 ● Bc8 Non développé (mob. 5)
Bf8 ● Bf8 Non développé (mob. 2)
Paire de fous ● Oui ● Oui
Non développées 3 (● f1, ● a1, ● h1) 5 (● b8, ● c8, ● f8, ● a8, ● h8)
Sécurité du roi
♔ Blancs ♚ Noirs
Statut ● Au centre ● Au centre
Droits de roque O-O / O-O-O O-O / O-O-O
Thèmes
♔ Blancs ♚ Noirs
Phase Ouverture
Centre mobile
Ruptures ● e4-e5 ● …d6-d5

B72a — Sicilian: Dragon, 6.Be3

1.e4 c5 2.Nf3 d6 3.d4 cxd4 4.Nxd4 Nf6 5.Nc3 g6 6.Be3 *   ● Trait aux Noirs

Ouverture — Centre mobile

♔ Point de vue Blancs

8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1
bR
bN
bB
bQ
bK
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bR
bP
bP
bP
bP
bP
bP
bN
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Case forte (3v0)
Case forte (2v1)
wNCase forte (2v0)
wPPion central
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wBFou actif — mobilité 5
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wQ
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wBFou actif — mobilité 5
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Plans. f3 (Poussée — 87 % des parties) ; Be2 (Fou actif (mobilité 8), Développer f1 — 6 % des parties).

♚ Point de vue Noirs

1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8
wR
wB
wK
wQ
wR
wP
wP
wP
wP
wP
wP
wB
wN
Case forte (2v1)
wP
wN
bP
bN
bP
bP
bP
bP
bP
bP
bR
bB
bK
bQ
bBFou actif — mobilité 5
bN
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Plans. ...Bg7 (Fianchetto, fou sur la grande diagonale — 97 % des parties) ; ...Nc6 (Développer b8 — 2 % des parties).
Avantages
Faiblesses
Diagonale active
Plans
Partie
1951 Mar del Plata zt – Round 13 – Liebstein, Arturo – 1-0 – Mangini, Jose Henrique de Mello – G129
1. e4 c5 2. Nf3 d6 3. d4 cxd4 4. Nxd4 Nf6 5. Nc3 g6 6. Be3 Ng4 7. Bb5+ Bd7 8. Qxg4 Nc6 9. Bxc6 bxc6 10. Qe2 Bg7
1957 New York ch-USA – Round 1 – Di Camillo, Attilio – 0-1 – Reshevsky, Samuel – G3
1. e4 c5 2. Nf3 d6 3. d4 cxd4 4. Nxd4 Nf6 5. Nc3 g6 6. Be3 a6 7. h3 b5 8. Be2 Bb7 9. Bf3 Nbd7 10. O-O Bg7
1961 Kiev (Ukraine) – Round 8 – Shianovsky, Vladislav I – 1/2-1/2 – Kostiuchenko, Alexander – G13
1. e4 c5 2. Nf3 d6 3. d4 cxd4 4. Nxd4 Nf6 5. Nc3 g6 6. Be3 a6 7. Be2 Bg7 8. O-O O-O 9. f4 Nc6 10. Kh1 Bd7
1961 Moscow Ch – Round 7 – Vasilchuk Yu – 0-1 – Khasin, Abram – G23
1. e4 c5 2. Nf3 d6 3. Nc3 Nf6 4. d4 cxd4 5. Nxd4 g6 6. Be3 Nbd7 7. f3 a6 8. Qd2 Qc7 9. g4 h6 10. O-O-O b5
1962 Hungary – Round 1 – Bojkovic, Slobodan – 0-1 – Kovacs, Laszlo M – G9
1. e4 c5 2. Nf3 d6 3. d4 cxd4 4. Nxd4 Nf6 5. Nc3 g6 6. Be3 a6 7. f3 Nbd7 8. Qd2 Qc7 9. a4 Bg7 10. Bd3 b6
1963 Ch (Men) Budapest HUN – Round 1 – Pogats, Jozsef Jr. – 1/2-1/2 – Szabo, Ladislav – G8
1. e4 c5 2. Nf3 d6 3. d4 cxd4 4. Nxd4 Nf6 5. Nc3 g6 6. Be3 a6 7. f3 b5 8. a4 b4 9. Nd5 Nxd5 10. exd5 Bg7
1967 Sousse Interzonal – Round 16 – Kavalek, Lubomir – 1-0 – Bilek, Istvan – G148
1. e4 c5 2. Nf3 d6 3. d4 cxd4 4. Nxd4 Nf6 5. Nc3 g6 6. Be3 a6 7. f3 Nbd7 8. Qd2 b5 9. a4 bxa4 10. Rxa4 Bg7
2025 FIDE World Cup - Round R1 Classical 2 - Cardoso Cardoso, Jose Gabriel - 1-0 - Baadur Jobava - G669
1. e4 c5 2. Nf3 d6 3. d4 cxd4 4. Nxd4 Nf6 5. Nc3 g6 6. Be3 Nc6 7. f3 h5 8. Bc4 Bd7 9. Qd2 Nxd4 10. Qxd4 Bg7
Manila Interzonal 1990 – Round 9 – Dolmatov, Sergey – 1-0 – Ljubojevic, Ljubomir – G157
1. e4 c5 2. Nf3 d6 3. d4 cxd4 4. Nxd4 Nf6 5. Nc3 g6 6. Be3 Nc6 7. f3 e5 8. Nb3 Be6 9. Qd2 a6 10. O-O-O Rc8
USA Ch 2017 – Round 10.5 – Caruana, Fabiano – 1-0 – Shabalov, Alexander – G59
1. e4 c5 2. Nf3 d6 3. d4 cxd4 4. Nxd4 Nf6 5. Nc3 g6 6. Be3 a6 7. f3 b5 8. Qd2 Bb7 9. g4 h6 10. O-O-O Nbd7
World Blitz 2021 – Round 13.20 – Michalik, Peter – 1-0 – Rapport, Richard – G759
1. e4 c5 2. Nf3 d6 3. d4 cxd4 4. Nxd4 Nf6 5. Nc3 g6 6. Be3 Nc6 7. f3 h5 8. Qd2 Nxd4 9. Bxd4 Bh6 10. Be3 Bxe3
World Blitz 2022 – Round 9.11 – Durarbayli, Vasif – 0-1 – Rapport, Richard – G452
1. e4 c5 2. Nf3 d6 3. d4 cxd4 4. Nxd4 Nf6 5. Nc3 g6 6. Be3 Nc6 7. f3 h5 8. Qd2 Nxd4 9. Bxd4 Bh6 10. Be3 Bxe3

B72a — Dragon Variation (1951)
1.e4 c5 2.Nf3 d6 3.d4 cxd4 4.Nxd4 Nf6 5.Nc3 g6 6.Be3
Les coups candidats
Ambassadeurs : Szalanczi, Emil (210x), Kahn, Evarth Dr. (157x), Simmelink, Joop Theo (146x), Farago, Sandor (128x), Ernst, Thomas (104x), Daurelle, Herve (102x), Starace, Umberto (88x), Kudrin, Sergey (82x)
6…Nc6 — 1.5% (1034 parties)
Ambassadeurs : Avila Pavas, Santiago (11x), Aansh Nandan Nerurkar (9x), Dueball, Juergen (8x), Rosenzweig, Vladimir (7x), Jirovsky, Milos (7x), Nguyen, Kevin (7x), Byrne, David (6x), Molina, Ruben (6x)
6…a6 — 1.3% (894 parties)
Ambassadeurs : Zhou, Yafei (18x), Williams, Simon K (14x), Tomazini, Zan (14x), Kudrin, Sergey (13x), Zhou, Yang-Fan (12x), Vanheirzeele, Daniel (10x), Gunnarsson, Jon Viktor (8x), Bhawoodien, Mohamed Ozayr (7x)
6…Ng4 — 0.1% (96 parties)
Ambassadeurs : Korovin, Nikita (2x), Dudin, Denis (2x), Szalanczi, Emil (2x), Klein, Louise Da Silveira (2x), Hlousek, Zdenek (1x), Zahour, Ivan (1x), Borsony, Valt (1x), Laustsen, A. (1x)
Analyse statistique des coups candidats
Répartition par niveau Elo (% des parties)
Tranche Elo N parties 6…Bg7 6…Nc6 6…a6 6…Ng4
<1800 5276 97% 1% 2% 0%
1800-2200 29458 97% 1% 1% 0%
2200-2600 21002 96% 2% 2% 0%
2600+ 424 96% 2% 1% —
Évolution par décennie (% des parties)
Décennie N parties 6…Bg7 6…Nc6 6…a6 6…Ng4
1950s 334 94% 5% 1% 1%
1960s 823 97% 2% 1% 0%
1970s 1508 98% 1% 0% —
1980s 3690 99% 1% 0% 0%
1990s 12832 99% 1% 0% 0%
2000s 21905 98% 1% 1% 0%
2010s 21740 97% 1% 2% 0%
2020s 5224 87% 10% 3% 0%
Tendances récentes (2010s → 2020s)
Coup 2010s 2020s Δ
6…Bg7 97% 87% ▼ -9.6%
6…Nc6 1% 10% ▲ +9.0%
6…a6 2% 3% ▲ +0.6%
6…Ng4 0% 0% -0.0%
Joueurs célèbres
Champions du monde dans cette position
Tal, Mikhail — 10 parties
Karpov, Anatoly — 10 parties
Anand, Viswanathan — 10 parties
Carlsen, Magnus — 10 parties
Hou, Yifan — 10 parties
Botvinnik, Mikhail — 9 parties
Kasparov, Garry — 8 parties
Kramnik, Vladimir — 6 parties
Capablanca, Jose Raul — 1 partie
Parties historiques
6…Bg7 — 96.9% (65959 parties)
1950 — Bonch-Osmolovsky, Mikhail vs Moiseev, Oleg — 0-1 — Moscow RUS
1950 — Anderson, Frank Ross vs Talov, Nikita — 1-0 — Toronto CAN
1950 — Efimov, Kondrat vs Lisitsin, Georgy — 0-1 — URS-ch sf Leningard
1950 — Rubtsova, Olga vs Karff, Mona M — 1-0 — Moscow RUS
1950 — Rubtsova, Alisa vs Karff, Tom — 1-0 — Moscow RUS
6…Nc6 — 1.5% (1034 parties)
1950 — Al Balushi, Shuaib Abdul Wahab vs Gawlikowski, Stanislaw — 1/2-1/2 — Schiavno Zdroj
1952 — Cafferty, Bernard vs Montwill, A. — 1-0 — London ENG
1954 — Mackie, William S vs Bekerman, Ignaz — 1-0 — Cape Town RSA
1955 — Geller, Efim P. vs Byrne, David — 0-1 — Moscow RUS
1955 — Sefc, Jan vs Alster, Ladislav — 0-1 — CSR-54ch playoff 3rd place
6…a6 — 1.3% (894 parties)
1955 — Vasiukov, Evgeni vs Perrot, Henri — 1-0 — Lyon FRA
1957 — Di Camillo, Attilio vs Rapaka Samuel Paul — 0-1 — New York ch-USA
1961 — Shianovsky, Vladislav I vs Alexander, Ken R D — 1/2-1/2 — Kiev UKR
1962 — Bojkovic, Slobodan vs Kovacs, Laszlo — 0-1 — Budapest HUN
1962 — Arlauskas, Romanas vs Iqbal Ahmad Khan — 1/2-1/2 — corr Wch4
6…Ng4 — 0.1% (96 parties)
1951 — Liebstein, Arturo vs Mangini, Jose Henrique de Mello — 1-0 — Mar del Plata ARG
1956 — Borsony, Valt vs Laustsen, A. — 1-0 — corr Wch2
1959 — Lloyd, David Edward vs Dean, Pietro — 1-0 — ?
1965 — Hlousek, Zdenek vs Zahour, Ivan — 1-0 — Vrbno pod Pradedem
1981 — Babcock, William vs Griffin, Carl William — 1-0 — ?