The Sicilian Dragon Move By Move

This series provides an ideal platform to study chess openings. By continually challenging the reader to answer probing questions throughout the book, the Move by Move format greatly encourages the learning and practising of vital skills just as much as the traditional assimilation of opening knowledge. Carefully selected questions and answers are designed to keep you actively involved and allow you to monitor your progress as you learn. This is an excellent way to study any chess opening and at the same time improve your general chess skills and knowledge. The Sicilian Dragon is a famous chess opening and is popular with players of all levels. The main lines often lead to ultra-sharp positions in which both players attack their opponent’s king. Seemingly inconsequential mistakes may punished severely, and a good knowledge of the theory and strategies is absolutely vital for success. In this book, FIDE Master Carsten Hansen invites you to join him in studying the Sicilian Dragon and its many variations. Using illustrative games, he explains the main positional and tactical ideas for both sides, provides answers to all the key questions and tells you everything you need to know about successfully playing the Sicilian Dragon. Essential guidance and training in the Sicilian DragonImportant ideas absorbed by continued practiceUtilizes an ideal approach to chess study

Andrew Martin studies this famous opening in a simplistic way, introducing the crucial initial moves and ideas and taking care to explain the reasoning behind them, something that has sometimes been neglected or taken for granted.

Opening expert David Vigorito examines the most important and instructive Sicilian Dragon games in recent years. This book is packed with key new ideas and critical analysis.

The mighty Dragon Variation of the Sicilian Defense is one of the most exciting openings in chess, and one of the most popular for action players. The authors introduce the Dragon by tracing its history and then providing strategies and tactics with detailed examples of the most brilliant games of the most famous Dragoneers.

Simon Williams takes a fresh look at the Sicilian Dragon. Concentrating on his favourite Dragadorf Variation, Williams constructs a cutting-edge repertoire for Black - perfect for the modern Dragon player.

Starting Out: The Accelerated Dragon is a further addition to Everyman's best-selling Starting Out series, which has been acclaimed for its original approach to tackling chess openings. International Master Andrew Greet, an Accelerated Dragon expert, revisits the fundamentals of the opening, elaborating on the crucial early moves and ideas for both sides in a way that is often neglected in other texts.

Most books on the Sicilian Defense give thousands of moves and variations the reader is expected to memorize. Here instead Professor Danny Kopec teaches the principles of Structure.

A grandmaster and a noted researcher team up to provide thorough coverage of one of the most exciting openings known to the modern chess player. And, after decades of use, this razor-sharp system has recently had a major revival. The authors examine all significant developments within the lines of the Accelerated Dragon, including the intriguing Hyper-Accelerated Dragon and the rare Semi-Accelerated Dragon. Numerous new ideas and improvements on existing theory, as well as many pieces of original analysis, ensure that this volume will be the bible of this important opening.