Defending against the Yugoslav attack in the Sicilian

Recently I have been looking at lines of the Sicilian, and I am aware that the Yugoslav Attack is one of the more promising lines for White against the Dragon. What I have been wondering is if I did play the dragon as black, what would by the best counter to that attack?

buying a whole lot of opening books.

at your level i wouldn't worry that much about it though - try just skimming through a lot of games to get a feel for the positions, then you should be good to go.

Doing a queen side attack is what all books say

All right. So possibly countering with pressure down the "c" file while blunting the attack? All right. And would anyone have some good book recommendations on the topic of playing the Sicilian?

Anyone have some? Or are there some helpful videos?

Against the Yugoslav attack I play a line where I delay castling. I learned it from Andrew Martin's chessbase DVD "The ABCs of the Sicilian Dragon". I highly recommend this DVD, I've had huge success with this line and recently beat someone 400 points above me using it. It denies white their automatic ready-made attack and allows black to get their queenside counterplay going. In this you have to defend as well as attack, but of the queenside attack what's standard is rook to c8, pinning the c2 pawn to the king (often white goes king b1 in this position). White will often have a knight on c3, and it often wins to capture this knight with the rook, making white recapture with the b2 pawn, doubling his pawns and opening his king position for the dragon bishop and queen to make checkmate threats. Also try to play pawns to a6 and b5 and put a knight on c4. The co-ordination of the dragon bishop on the long diagonal and c4 knight along with a queen can be deadly.

If niether side is able to get mate, black should still have a winning endgame even with the rook exchange sacrifice, because black typically has more pawns, and passed pawns on the kingside.

Cool! Do you have that game that I could look at, because that line seems interesting.

It does have a lot of theory but if you love sharp openings and can spend sometime learning the basics of it you'll be fine. Keaton Kiewra's video series here on "Fighting Dragon" is pretty good.

Ok, I'll look at that. I'm starting a Yugoslav attack right now, so a good line would also be nice.

castle queenside

Well hopefully Gpod has learned this opening from 3 years ago. I like it as black after reading the two volume series on the dragon with Quality chess.

Also last post: Recommended is ..7 0-0 8. QD2, NC6 9. 0-0-0 or BC4, d5 or Bd7.

no do not castle queenside

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