oh snap!

If you don't know Wesley So is a grandmaster, that's your own problem :P.  I like the article.  Something written for more advanced players perhaps.  A rarity on this site :)

 The article doesn´t makes a pleasurable reading and doesn´t offer much significant information, as the apparent jungle of variations given, one is not told if they are games between grandmasters, games between patzers,  analysis provided by engines, or just arbitrary guesses. 

 Also there are too many omisions. For instance, the variation  (after 10...Rb8) 11.Bb3 Na5 12.Bh6 Bxh6 13.Qxh6 b5 14.Nd5 Nxb3+ 15.Nxb3 Nxd5 16.exd5 seems to be slightly better for White and (ironically) best for Black could now be 16...Rc8, when one should ask himself if playing firstly 10...Rb8 and then 16...Rc8 isn´t a bit ludicrous. And the simple move 14.Nd5 is not to be found in the article.  

I don't see any justification for the name Chinese Dragon.

I've been playing sicilian defense before but this one is very interesting game. 

ive played this before

hopefully, being a fan of the dragon i will try it eventually.... enter the dragon!!!

Lov this dragon. Black is ok.

I seem to recall that the Chinese Dragon was invented in the eighties by a Dutch IM with a Chinese wife (he wrote a book on the opening as well, available for free download); at the time he was living in China, and thus named it the Chinese Dragon. How exactly does it make it 21st century, then?

I dont play the Sicilian, but having seen the results it looks like the strongest opening against e4. I definitely need to learn it.

Chinese Dragon?? haven't heard of it

Wesley So is among the youngest GM in the world.

Great article on a variation I'm unfamiliar with.

what a slaughter...

right game

The move 15. Ka1 (given in the notes) has caused this variation some serious difficulties (see Carlsen - Radjabov 1-0).  If black had some convincing answer to this plan I'd play the Chinese in a heartbeat (at the moment I do use it as a secondary Dragon line, currently 1 for 2 in rated play with an average opposition of 2210).  If anyone knows of any games/analysis that shows black surviving or building some initiative in the 15. Ka1 with Rb1 line... I'd love to see it (feel free to message me!)

-matt

It is called the "Chinese Dragon" you can find material on this opening in NIC yearbooks 71 and 72. IM Edward Dearing also has a nice section on it in his seminal work on the dragon, "Play the Sicilian Dragon" It is a fun opening, happy hunting!!

i love playing the dragon, just adds to idea's 

Thanks for the article!