Hint: The Bishop-Queen battery is deadly only for the Sicilian dragon but extremely dangerous for most sicilian defences too. Basically whenever there's opposite castling there is this trick. Against the Najdorf it's called the English attack, I think.
Hint#2: Don't trust your chess engine too much in any opening, unless you have Rybka. Especially the free chess.com engine makes funny mistakes (it did consider a questionable move the BxN on the exchange variation of the Ruy Lopez. Beh.)
Hey guys! how are you doing.
i (terrible player, rated mid 1200s) am quite new here, love to play chess though and recently with the help of chess.com studied quite a bit of theory. from what i understand is that the yugoslav attack is a fairly specific weapon against the dragon variation. but then, litterally just now, i played a random 5+2 blitz game and after a couple of natural develpment moves against villains philidors defence i basically was headed straight for a yugoslav attack.
i went on to win that game but thats not the point.
my main issue is the following: there are two differences, the black pawn on c2 instead of e2 and the black bishop is not fianchettoed, the trademark of the dragon. so why is the yugoslav so specific against the dragon if it works so well against this different structure?
thanks for your thoughts guys, cheers