The Sicilian Dragon

Hello. Today, I would like to invite everyone to join the new group ,The Dragon Warriors,focused on the study of the supersharp Dragon variation.

The following diagrams indicate the basic dragon formations-

Now let us look at some middle game positions-

All these positions shows the amount of resources black has in the dragon variation.To increase your knowledge of the dragon defence please join and popularize our group 'The Dragon Warriors'

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WOW! 

And I thought this was a clear loss for black

Nice!

What about this position of accelerated dragon in which black plays d5 without d6 first

Oh! That gambit is a key posittion for black in the accelerated dragon. Forgot to mention.

I presume after exd5, Nb4 follows.

Also, Deagle thanks for joining my group.

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"Clear Loss"

Seriously!  

I love the dragon, here are a few games in it.

Then of course there is the yugoslav:

jengaias,

We almost always play the normal dragon. The rest is just discussion

Wezzyfish,

Those are some nice games (though a lot of blunders were made )

Yes, at my level there are always blunders.  In the games posted at least, it was mostly my opponent, though I'm sure my game had plenty of points where I made the wrong moves. 

I love sicilian and when white goes for an open one, I generally always play the dragon now.  The exception is if they go for some Bc4 variant early, in which case I'll go ahead and play e6 followed by a6 and quick queenside development, which has been working well for me in those lines.

I thought the best structure for closed sicilian (pawns on d3 and e4) was the dragon taking advantage of weak squares on d4 and e5.

This was one of the reasons why Bobby Fischer played 3 d3 only after black played 2...e6 after which a dragon structure is impossible

Nice. So who else did you convince?

The reason Fischer played KIA against ...e6 structure has to do with Blacks light square Bishop. It's difficult to find development ( Bg4-Bf5) and that gives advantage for White to build a King side attack by using the g4 square for his Knight and the diagonal g2-h3 for his bishop pointing on e6.

Oh!

I think another reason he liked the KIA in that line was that he was a diehard KID player and its the same type of game a tempo up.

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A very recent 5 min game I'm rather proud of.