Yugoslav Attack is, I think, the most accurate response to the Dragon and the reason why the Dragon is not played much at the top levels these days:
Here's all I know on it, I don't play it (too theoretical again), rather I go for the 6.f4 sideline.
Action chess tourney yesterday
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Nice analysis, solskytz. In your game against the 2099 -- yeah, visualization is very important -- as you calculate each move you have to make sure you're taking into account every change in the position, and even after the smoke seems to clear, like after ...Nxd3 Qxd3, it's still a good idea to take a fresh look at that "final position" as if it was the position right in front of you, and see if it is sound -- sometimes there is a ...Bb5 sneaking by at the end of it all.
Of course that moment demanded more out of you than him -- it's possible your opponent didn't see all the way through on say, move 11 -- he might have, but even if he didn't he could bet ...Ne5 was at least a safe, natural move with a clear conscience. This kind of analytical work is the bread and butter of high level of chess.
Hopefully looking at Houdini's opinion gave you an idea of what hidden resources there can exist in a position if you play like a genius :) A lot of positions that look ugly, Houdini could beat me from lol.
Jan 11, 2013
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#24
15 minutes each, no increment. Hastings Vs Tunbridge Wells, centenary occasion.
Same event:
5 hour games:
Jan 11, 2013
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#25
Wonderful! Material for study - thanks for both of you for presenting games. I'm looking to expand my repertoire somewhat...
more games to be posted soon - maybe the best ones.
Jan 11, 2013
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#26
And I wonder what exactly was 'deleted for excessive generalization' - never saw this raison-de-delete
Jan 11, 2013
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#27
solskytz wrote:
And I wonder what exactly was 'deleted for excessive generalization' - never saw this raison-de-delete
My little joke. 
Jan 13, 2013
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#28
Until I get around to actually post my draws against the masters (last two games of the tourney, played against Israeli masters - title being completely equivalent to FIDE masters as to strength and difficulty to get it), here's a fun one against opposition rated 2150-ish here at chess.com.
We battled it out for 19 games yesterday night. He crushed me 12.5 - 6.5. At some point I was quite flabbergasted as we were 5.5-5.5, my rating appearing again above the 2000 mark, and I felt like with a bit more play I'm off into a new record. Almost felt like I was cheating, or finding 'a way around the system'!
And then either he went into hyperdrive, I got tired, or he just magically understood the keystone of my 'playing algorithm', and opened a healthy distance. At the last game, where I just dreamily dropped a rook, believing the my Q still defends it, even though she just moved away... it was definitely time to go to bed, where dreams don't cost you elo points.
This one is an amusing miniature, where I got all of my strategic goals realized. I'm sure you will like it, regardless if it's your favorite opening...
Jan 13, 2013
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#29
Game Vs hamiltoncr:
Great play, you have to be proud of such an absolute rout. It looks like he intended to play a KIA, but you didn't give him any time to settle.
Jan 13, 2013
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#30
True... it just flowed so nicely! And thanks for your appreciation :-)
maybe we should play from time to time - we seem to be of comparable level
lol, that must have been a pain in the ass for white to play -- how every time black moved, there was some threat or one of his pieces getting kicked away.
Jan 13, 2013
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#32
Right. It would feel like that mythological frog in the blender, somewhere around step 8 or thereabouts...
http://www.joecartoon.com/index.php/episodes/frog-in-a-blender/
(not recommended to anybody under 13)
Jan 13, 2013
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#33
First game in my series "Drawing against the masters" is coming. \
Regretfully, it is not a game I completely remember - but you will get a generous part of the action, the plans, the ideas, and the conclusion, more or less, in my by-now-famous descriptive aplomb - so stay tuned.
(for those who are joining us - this is a thread about an action chess, 20+5 time control tourney I played in Israel 8 days ago. Games 1 to 4, in which I scored 1 out of 4 against 2140 opposition, were included 'upstairs', earlier in this thread - and a little internet miniature from this very site thrown in as a special bonus, free of charge.
In games 5 and 6, which you are about to see, I drew two Israeli masters. Grab a beer and stay with us for the action).
Jan 13, 2013
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#34
Game five, in which I draw a master with black, who chooses to play into my opening knowledge, but with new and unfamiliar ideas which I have to understand and counter in real time. I'm up to the task!
By the way, Waller, I only now see your enlightening comment. Way to go to all enterprising Alapin players! (1. e4 c5 2. c3). I raise a glass!
Jan 15, 2013
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#35
The following near-miniature, played here at 3 0 just a bit ago (minutes when this post is started, probably more by the time it's posted, my stomach richer by a spaghetti bolonaise which I now put on the electric plates...), is dedicated to users Doggy Style and DragonFlyHunter, as their attacking advices inspired my play.
Though it didn't come from the Sicilian defense, I'm sure you will both recognize your 'trademark' ideas of doubling on the c1-h6 diagonal, marching forward to open the h-file (although my take on that theme was different than what I saw in your games, as to move order and method of breaking through), and exploiting open lines with Q and R on the attack, after exchanging the dark squared bishops.
Black couldn't match this with an aggressive plan of his own and was soon reduced to reacting to my play, with nothing constructive coming from him - or as someone in this thread put it earlier, the guy tried to put up a presentable setup, but was just wiped up without ever being given a chance (or so it looks, at least...) now we'll let the moves (and generous annotations) speak -
Jan 15, 2013
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#36
I now see that I could probably win the game even faster, without attacking - just positionally - by the move 9. e5, anyway - as he didn't really answer my threat...
the point is, that I would get to play 10. Bxe7, and then 11. Bd6 - strangling him and remaining a solid pawn up - and still with the potential of conducting an attack as I'm better developed and get there faster.
Then on his move 14, probably ...Ne5 would be both more natural and more interesting - threats to d3, threats to defensively come to g6 and complicate things... at least give me a fight!
Another lovely win that I find now is 18. Rxh5+! Nxh5 (...Nh7 19. Qh6 mating) 19. Qh6+ Kg8 20. Ne7 mate,
And - on move 24, instead of the mundane Bg8+, 24. Bd3!, apart from mating next move, would be an original and refreshing 'rewind' of a well known tactic - the bishop running away from the attack on the king, to shield the enemy queen from attack by its own rook. An aptly humourous response to his last move.
Jan 16, 2013
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#38
BlueEmu I suppose so...
DragonflyHunter I do think it should fit you naturally :-) btw what is the Austrian attack?
It's great as I do get to learn something about the chess openings here. First the Yugoslav, now this..
Jan 16, 2013
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#39
On your question from move 7, yes, I do see why you like it :-) the common thread does run through.
The rest is lovely but a bit too complicated and risky for my taste. I speak about letting him capture on c3, and then going Kf1 - you need to be quite a player to play like that.
The winning move itself isn't at all easy to see, understand or even suspect that it's there from several moves before. Of course once it's played, the rest is "Austrian Airlines". Thanks for teaching me the variation!
Nakamura sacrifices two pieces for a rook and some king exposure. Then he has to play some quiet moves, counting on Black's retarded development that he won't catch up and defend. This takes great foresight, patience and understanding. The whole conduct of the game is very challenging. That's the difficulty with games by the masters - one just doesn't feel up to par...
Feb 21, 2013
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#40
And now, to some aggression in the Sicilian - for those who like the genre... (I do remember that some people like that used to grace this thread)
BTW I remember well that I didn't share my last game from the tourney - another draw against a master. I didn't only because of lack of demand... hint hint!!
This one was played in 3 0 at this site. I generally don't play the open Sicilian - but recently I do it more, especially against lower rated opposition, as it somehow feels more safe to experiment against them.
Comments on Theory, move orders, correct placement of pieces, strategical errors and strong moves, prospective endings and middlegames resulting from the opening, and more, will be welcome!! I'm totally clueless about this opening!! :-)
It is well worth playing over this game, as my traditionally generous annotations, which accompany it, are at least amusing, if not actually instructive for lower rated people (lower than me, that is).
probably unless black can combine something with the famous "thematic" exchange sacrifice on c3, etc.... loads on theory on that... but maybe I should just start by jumping into the water...
I won many times with the open sicilian actually, but I always get this nagging feeling that I really have no idea what I'm doing... probably time to get over it...
Post a couple of your wins, annotated?
My draws against the masters in rounds 5 and 6 are coming...