Compact Dragon Sicilian Analysis by Anish Giri

Dragon Sicilian:

Advantages:

• No Weakness in pawn structure than compared to other sicilian variations.
• Our aim is to deep into end with dragon sicilian.

How Black should continue:

1. Black should castle the same side and remove king safety factor.
2. d6 to d5 to react before the h4 attack.
3. Avoid H5,G4,F3 structure by black.
4. With black queen on b5 and white king with Queen side castling, Black can easily push a5, a4 and start attacking.

How White should continue:

1. There are h4 h5 ideas after opposite side castle and bringing in bishop and knight inside makes the position very difficult for black (Yugoslav Attack).
2. Before bishop g7, White can play Be2 and try to play in a very potent way.

Problems:

1. In old line theory, with Rb8 (Chinese Dragon), You will not get so pleasant end game.

PGN :

1. e4 c5 2. Nf3 d6 3. d4 cxd4 4. Nxd4 Nf6 5. Nc3 g6 (5... a6 6. Be2 e5) 6. Be3
(6. Be2 Bg7 7. O-O O-O 8. Be3 Nc6 9. Nb3 a6 10. a4) 6... Bg7 (6... Ng4 7. Bb5+
Bd7 8. Qxg4) 7. f3 O-O 8. Qd2 Nc6 9. O-O-O (9. Bc4 Bd7 (9... Nxd4 10. Bxd4 Be6
11. Bb3 Qa5 12. O-O-O b5 13. Kb1 b4 14. Nd5 Bxd5 15. exd5 Qb5) 10. O-O-O Rc8 11.
Bb3 Nxd4 12. Bxd4 b5) 9... d5 10. exd5 Nxd5 11. Nxc6 bxc6 12. Nxd5 (12. Bd4 Bxd4
(12... e5 13. Bc5 Be6 (13... Re8 14. Ne4 f5) 14. Bxf8 (14. Ne4 Re8 15. h4 h6 16.
h5 g5 17. g4) 14... Qxf8) 13. Qxd4 Qb6) 12... cxd5 13. Qxd5 Qc7 14. Qxa8 Bf5 15.
Qxf8+ Kxf8 *