Ok, I understand that you wouldn't want to spend a lot of time on the opening 80% of your opponents play anti-sicilians..
From my own point of view I can say that I most often met these lines until my rating increased to around 2300. Then I started to meet higherrated players who played for a killing advantage from move 1, and I've had a lot of open sicilians since... 

Hmm ok I can see now how one can misunderstand AmateurD...  I was thinking that it's white to move at move 9 and "which line would you rather not face, 9.Bc4, 9.0-0-0..." etc followed by what line YOU play (ex. Qa5). So it's written from the black perspective since you choose the white move you don't want to face followed by the black variation you play..

Perhaps you can edit the text on the poll to something more instructive, like "Which line would you rather not face from the black side?"

Also I think there are some differences between the two lines you mentioned. If white castles early and quickly follows with Kb1 it will be harder for black to play Qa5 (although he sometimes can anyway) but I can see that the two often transpose so maybe I should have put them together (9.0-0-0 AND 9.g4, I play Bd7 Rc8...)

Why not see it from the bright side?

Obviously, Dragoneers are quite happy in the Yugoslav! 

Speaking just for myself as ex Dragoneer, what made me give it up was mainly the increased popularity of 2.Nc3 and 2.c3 - especially when playing lower rateds who were happy to draw.

It just didn't seem worthwhile to invest so much time and effort in one defence, when you found yourself playing 1...d6, 1..Nf6 or 1...g6 against these people.

If one persisted with 1...c5 one might get a Dragon every 5th game, but then usually some dull Be2 systems, especially the one with Re1 and Bf1, for some reason...

So when even the stronger players started playing 2.c3  or even 3.Bb5+  it became evident that I'd be happier with something they can't avoid, like 1...d5  or 1...e6.


The Dragon set-up itself is still very appealing to me (just like the Leningrad Dutch still is!), but nowadays I only play it occasionally in internet blitz...

Ok guys, only 5 votes (including one from me)? Are you telling me that out of all the subscribers only 4 of you actually play the dragon??