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Dragon variation

17/02/2008 by Nikita

 In chess you have to think about a good opening when you start your game…I don’t know many openings…and know that’s one weak point which I have to work on seriously…most of the time I like to play how I feel! but will always start with my Knights/King-Queen-pawns… and if I can play the Dragon…I’m happy…..and you don’t know about the Dragon?….you can look at the image below and follow THIS LINK too!

Click on THIS LINK and it will take you to Wikichess…you can play through different openings and see what percentage of players playing white/black plays a specific opening…interesting…
More HERE on chess openings….really a good site to visit!

On the image you can see the Dragon-Variation…of the Sicilian opening….
On this link HERE you can read more about the Sicilian/Dragon, which is one of my favourites…

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Posted in Chess, chess openings, Dragon, Sicilian, skaak, skaak openinge | Tagged Chess, chess games, chess openings, Dragon, Sicilian, skaak, skaak openinge | 10 Comments

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  1. on 18/02/2008 at 02:44 bookstoysgames

    For the Sicilian Dragon, you need to add Black’s next move g6.
    That is a neat site. Since I expect to return to tournament play soon, I have to decide what openings to play. It’s been 15 years since my last tournament game, and my memory of the openings is not so good.
    Ray D.


  2. on 18/02/2008 at 11:25 Nikita

    Hi Ray…On this site where I copied the image, they don’t allow you to add g6 😉 tks for your welcoming comments!
    It’s the Wikichess…site
    http://www.wikichess.net/move.php?move=Nc6


  3. on 18/02/2008 at 12:12 bookstoysgames

    That site is a bit temperamental. After I looked at it for a while, it started displaying things oddly. Then I left the site and came back and it behaved OK for awhile.


  4. on 18/02/2008 at 13:53 Nikita

    😉 funny!


  5. on 21/02/2008 at 09:15 the7new7ramanujan

    nice blog to discuss chess.

    um, a little digression from sicilian dragon.
    how should black proceed after 1 e4 e6 2 e5 … ?
    i prefer to do this early advance and dont do ep capture on 2 d5 , and win nearly always.


  6. on 21/02/2008 at 10:45 Nikita

    Hi 7new7… Welcome to my blog..thanks for your kind comments….you’ve got an interesting blog coming up too, I do like your banner! In this opening you mentioned here… I like to move d4 sometimes and not performing the en passant move…


  7. on 24/02/2008 at 01:01 Dan

    First of all, bookstoysgames is right. The diagrammed can lead to several variations of the Sicilian. It is the move 5…g6 which makes it the Dragon Variation. Too bad the site you used won’t let you show this.
    In the Dragon Variation, Black means to make use of his King’s Bishop, which will be developed to g7, to control the long diagonal and exert influence in the centre. His Knights will also have bearing on the centre. White has several ways of combatting the Dragon, one of the most popular being the Yugoslav Attack, championed by Bobby Fischer, amongst others, back in the 50s and 60s. White will play Pf3 to strengthen the e4-pawn and keep Black’s Knight from g4, threatening to swap off White’s Queen’s Bishop which will develop to e3. White will then move his Queen up to d2 and castle Queenside, with the intention of Pawn-storming Black’s King, who generally castles on that wing. White will also develop his King’s Bishop to c4 to aid the Kingside assault. So the typical opening will look something like this: 1.e4 c5 2.Nf3 d6 3.d4 cxd4 4.Nxd4 Nf6 5.Nc3 g6 6.Be3 Bg7 7.f3 Nc6 8.Qd2 0-0 9.Bc4 Bd7 10.0-0-0 Rc8 11.Bb3 Ne5 12.h4 h5 and White will eventually play Pg4 and try to break down Black’s King’s position while Black tries to counterattack in the centre or on the Queenside.

    To 7new7.: After 1.e4 e6 2.e5 Black can either play 2…d5, which will probably transpose to the Advance Variation, or even try 2…d6, which gives him more or less instant equality. On 1.e4 e6 2.e5 d5 3.exd6 Bxd6 is also good for equality.


  8. on 24/02/2008 at 10:16 Nikita

    Hi Dan
    Thanks for your comments! which I really appreciate!
    😉


  9. on 27/02/2008 at 07:01 the7new7ramanujan

    to dan :
    white here should NOT be content with equality. he is playing for an upper hand from the word ‘go’. what about replying 2 … d6 with 3 f4, intending to keep the advanced pawn ?
    … only ramanujan is okay.
    to nikita :
    sorry, i meant 2 … d6, not 2 d6. 2 d4 is the french straightaway !


  10. on 27/02/2008 at 21:34 Dan

    Your question was, how should BLACK proceed? Yes, White should not be content with equality, but for Black, that’s OK!



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