Download PGN of August '09 Dragon Sicilian games

Uribe - Kudrin which introduces 9...h5!? to the Accelerated Dragadorf:

This is one Dragon expert who clearly has faith in it and this game shows why.

Ordian - Tiviakov which sees a debut on this site for delaying castles in the Yugoslav Attack in favour of 8...Be6:

Also in the offbeat department Gawain brings you Filippov - Dzhumaev in which Black tries 8...d5!?:

although ultimately comes up short.

He annotates two of his own games this month, one being Greet - Jones in which he gets to try out the 15...b4!? that has generated so much forum interest in the Kb1 and g4 line:

Staying with the 9 Bc4 Yugoslav Attack, a look at the latest standing of the Chinese variation is conducted in Venkatesh - Fontaine.

Then over to 9 0-0-0 and I personally remain surprised by White persevering with 10 Kb1 although on the face of it Smeets - Jones looks like a case of grabbing the exchange and not so much running as sauntering! Nevertheless Gawain points out several places that he might have improved so all is far from lost.

That's it for now. Back real soon.

Chris (and Gawain!)

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