The Sicilian Dragon - Going deeper in Sicilian
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The Sicilian Dragon - Going deeper in Sicilian

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Intro- 
Hey guys how are ya all I am your friend NoMercy818 with another Amazing Blog. In the last blog we learned about  Sicilian and in this blog we are gonna learn  The Sicilian Dragon and we gonna go more deeper in the Sicilian. So lets hop in.
Description- 
So this is a aggressive line which is mostly played by GM. It is a move played by Black aimed to win. So I can guarantee a win against a unexperienced or a beginner. But a GM can easily crush you if you play wrong. So I am here to improve your openings. So now lets hop in the opening.
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So this is how the Sicilian Dragon goes- 

So this is how it goes. I hope you have analyzed. So this is the main line. Here white can also castle on queen side and push the pawns to attack. Black can do the same. The side which attacks first has a higher chance to win the game. This is a my favourite
 variation when I play the Sicilian. So now lets look at a amazing game which you can analyze to master the dragon variation. 

Viswanathan Anand vs Garry Kasparov
"Dragon Drop" (game of the day Nov-10-2008)
Kasparov - Anand PCA World Championship Match (1995), New York, NY USA, rd 13, Oct-02
Sicilian Defense: Dragon Variation. Yugoslav Attack (B77)  ·  0-1



So this is a Amazing game played by two famous GM I hope you have analyzed this game.
So now by looking at the game you can see how you can win as black. But a major problem how to crush to Sicilian Dragon ?? 

How to crush the Sicilian Dragon ??

So if you are white how to crush this opening ?? So there are certain main lines on how to crush this opening. Black got some weak squares of which white could take advantage. 
So this is how it goes to crush the dragon variation- 

Variation 1- 


In this variation black looses the Queen. Now lets hop into Variation-2

Variation 2- 


In Variation 2 the knight gives a fork which will force the Black to give a piece or even resign.
Lets take a look at Variation 3 in which the knight moves on Nd5. 

Variation 3- 


This is the correct move but then also white is winning as black cannot castle. And also he got center control. So there are high chances of white to win.

So now lets look at a famous game in which a GM crushes the Dragon variation.

Viacheslav Ragozin vs Georgy Lisitsin
USSR Championship (1934/35), Leningrad URS, rd 15, Dec-26
Sicilian Defense: Dragon Variation. General (B70)  ·  1-0

I hope you have analyzed the game. 


I hope you enjoyed the blog and also got to learn something new. If you defeated someone with my tips and tricks follow me and comment down below. 

Video link on how to crush the Sicilian Dragon- (Not my video -Video of Eric Rosen)
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=utAxnk98YCA 
 
Video link on how to play the Sicilian Dragon- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=utAxnk98YCA (Not my video- Video of thechesswebsite)

My chess Club link- https://www.chess.com/club/the-roling-pawns (Only Strong players or kick)

My blog channel- https://www.chess.com/blog/AmazingBlogs

My previous blog- https://www.chess.com/blog/NoMercy818/the-sicilian-defense-learning-openings-episode-2 

New blog coming soon on the Najdorf variation so dont miss that blog when its released. 
Follow me for more such openings. 

Till then peace out