Indirect wrote:
Who plays the Dragon,?
i can play it against you if you like.
The Dragon!
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me me me!
I play it, but might insert a scheveningen every now and then :)
Jan 8, 2014
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The dragon is fine as an opening, but the problem is it's not very good for your chess as a whole. You play the same pawn structure over and over again, and you don't really learn anything from playing the opening. If you are an improving player, I'd recommend various pawn structures from different openings.
Sac, sac, mate! :D
I actually defeated (in an actual over the borad tournament) a 1900 player with the yugoslavian attack, seriously, the dragon is too easy to attack, and it is almost obvious that a sacrafise will come, and declare a check mate in x.
ifoody wrote:
I actually defeated (in an actual over the borad tournament) a 1900 player with the yugoslavian attack, seriously, the dragon is too easy to attack, and it is almost obvious that a sacrafise will come, and declare a check mate in x.
Beating a 1900 with the yugoslav attack does not mean anything. if you use that logic, I will say that I've beaten a 1900 that played the yugolsav.
I wont play the dragon because this one time I beat him and he threatened to roast then eat me ...
Soorat92 wrote:
I wont play the dragon because this one time I beat him and he threatened to roast then eat me ...
And then what happened?? You can't start an exciting story like that and not tell us the ending!
Soorat92 wrote:
I wont play the dragon because this one time I beat him and he threatened to roast then eat me ...
the desolation of smaug :O
quick quick! let's go save our village :D
The_Potato wrote:
ifoody wrote:
I actually defeated (in an actual over the borad tournament) a 1900 player with the yugoslavian attack, seriously, the dragon is too easy to attack, and it is almost obvious that a sacrafise will come, and declare a check mate in x.
The dragon is not easy to attack, up to date I have only lost 2 games with the Dragon in OTB. It's only easy to attack if your opponent doesn't know theory, which is Key if you want to play the Dragon.
+1
who said the dragon was easy to attack?
well then if the dragon is easy to attack, then the white side of the KID is easy to attack, and that doesn't make much sense.
in online chess, databases are allowed, so maybe a live chess match would be wiser.
konhidras wrote:
Indirect wrote:
Who plays the Dragon,?
i can play it against you if you like.
Okay, I'll send you the challenge.
The_Potato wrote:
thunder_tiger123 wrote:
in online chess, databases are allowed, so maybe a live chess match would be wiser.
He can get all the help he wants, I have studied Dragon theory for like 5 years straight.
your 5 years of theory would be better put at use in a live chess game, IMHO. if you want to be stubborn, go ahead. just don't blame me if you lose.
Jan 8, 2014
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#17
The Potato,
White has many options to steer the game to an endgame after 20 or so moves of theory in the Qd2 variation, where white has a slight advantage. I can almost never hope for an advantage OTB against 2300s or well prepared opponents. That's why I actually gave up on the dragon. Too much theory, and always having to defend a slightly worse endgame.
Dragon junkies are almost as bad as Blackmar-Diemer junkies ;]
clunney wrote:
Dragon junkies are almost as bad as Blackmar-Diemer junkies ;]
poo, I play the KID :D
Who plays the Dragon,?