5/0 time controls.  White looks to be in trouble early, but a Knight sacrifice turns the tides.

Very nice. Always enjoy the commentary on your games. I actually have been practicing with the Sicilian defense and the dragon. 

Nice job, gambitknight, this one is for you:

Actually the 'only decent move' is 17.g5, when Nd7 18.Nd5 a4 19.Qd4+ trades queens and leaves white positionally much better. 19...e5 in the game would've trapped your knight and won for black. 26...Ra7 would've defended black's position and threatened to take the knight or the rook, winning easily. After gxh5?? you could've drawn with 27.g6 Rc7 28.gxh7+ Kh8 29.Qf6+ with a perpetual; moving the king to the g-file loses to Rg1+. 27.Nf5?? however, actually allowed black to mate you in 5 moves with 27...Rxc2+, but after 27...Qf7?? you won. This all shows how critical the sharp variations of this opening are :)

Salaskan: nice lines.  I suppose I was wrong against h4 ; flawed analytic methodology: looking only for sharp, double edged lines, I skipped entirely over the safer alternatives.  Still, h4 does promise a very interesting game, so that's something to be said.  The rook sacrifice on c2 is an especially impressive find.  Thanks.

As far as 19... e5 goes, I think you're being far too trigger happy in claiming black's win, especially as the knight, in reality, isn't trapped at all.  White responds with Nf5+! (the responce PxN leads, by force, into checkmate), which I think, if anything, provides white with the better chances.

echecs:  nice cartoon.  That one cracked me up...

@Gambitknight, it seems you're right that the knight can't be captured with the pawn, nice observation. However, just 20...Bxf5 21.gxf5 Rfc8 is 1.71 better for black according to Fritz since his attack is faster :P but I'm glad your sacrifice worked out!

huh! its very rare to see a knight sack in the dragon! even though your opponent take, your knight sack and game were pretty sound, are there "normal" lines in which white sacks a knight or bishop in the sicilian dragon? i know there are alot in the bg5 najdorf variation, but still....

Firepower: to be honest, I'm not too knowledgeable about opening theory in general.  Mainly, I try to either create as many complications as possible or immediately, against D4 as black, bring the game down towards the endgames.  With that in mind, it's kind of strange that I would play into such theoretical minefields as the Yugoslav but, again, against the Sicilian, there are so many ways to go wrong with theory.  Might as well choose one with somewhat straightforward play.

As well as the soundness of the game itself, Salaskan has shown lines proving the game was much more harrowing than even I thought at the time.  Still, such things tend to run part and parcel with these kinds of positions: they tend to be remarkably sharp and complicated.

Oh, on a sidenote, I just played a miniature against a transposed dragon.  It's a somewhat different kind of game then the first, but, once again, encapsulates just how double edged these lines tend to be.  Black, paradoxically as it may sound, attacks too quickly on the queenside in this game, and suffers for it.