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Re: Is Dearing's Dragon book still relevant?
Reply #8 - 09/10/10 at 12:00:41
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Reverse wrote on 09/09/10 at 18:39:34:
It seems like the Chinese Dragon is quite popular right now. Is the soltis variation still being supported by the top guys?  I know that  Dearings book deals mainly with the soltis...how is that variation holding up?

also, i recently bought Winning with the Sicilian Dragon 2 by Chris Ward at a used book store.  His line against 9.0-0-0 is based on 9..Bd7 10 0-0-0 Qa5.  Is this line still viable? Is it a sideline? I assume it is a sideline and thus almost everyone will be unfamiliar with the resulting theory. I could be wrong though.



Soltis is played everytime white plays h4 before 0-0-0 in order since it rules out chinese (as does 10 Bb3). Qa5 is rarely played these days. 9 0-0-0 Bd7 is considered to be too slow. Wards books are good food for thought but concrete lines are outdated.
  
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Re: Is Dearing's Dragon book still relevant?
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It seems like the Chinese Dragon is quite popular right now. Is the soltis variation still being supported by the top guys?  I know that  Dearings book deals mainly with the soltis...how is that variation holding up?

also, i recently bought Winning with the Sicilian Dragon 2 by Chris Ward at a used book store.  His line against 9.0-0-0 is based on 9..Bd7 10 0-0-0 Qa5.  Is this line still viable? Is it a sideline? I assume it is a sideline and thus almost everyone will be unfamiliar with the resulting theory. I could be wrong though.

  
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Re: Is Dearing's Dragon book still relevant?
Reply #6 - 06/24/10 at 16:35:52
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Dearings book is still relevent in most chapters. However many things has happened in the most critical lines for both players. Like any other chess book there are of course some small errors in some of the analysis and some recommendations are not played anymore at higher levels but I still highly recommened this book.

Also, if black wants to play Rc8 Nxd4 b5 system I recommend investigations on the game Karjakin-Shirov since thats is the latest theoretical word.
  
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Re: Is Dearing's Dragon book still relevant?
Reply #5 - 06/24/10 at 11:48:26
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If you are talking about theory, every book is getting outdated after some time .
But Dearing's book will certainly remain a very good starting point for the one's who want to understand the principles and the basic lines of the Dragon.
  

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Re: Is Dearing's Dragon book still relevant?
Reply #4 - 06/24/10 at 09:37:42
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Does he analyse the move a6!? I dont think so, just Nc4?! or Re8.
  
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Re: Is Dearing's Dragon book still relevant?
Reply #3 - 06/24/10 at 09:14:43
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parisestmagique wrote on 06/24/10 at 07:31:11:
I think it's a very very good book, but to be up to date you have to study all the games played by Radjabov and Carlsen after 2004. Also he says nothing about the controversial line in the variation 9.Bc4 Bd7 10.Bb3 Rc8 11.0-0-0 Ne5 12.Kb1! (cut).


Oh yes he does! 9.Bc4 Bd7 10.Bb3 Rc8 11.0-0-0 Ne5 12.Kb1 is covered in Chapter 11!
  
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Re: Is Dearing's Dragon book still relevant?
Reply #2 - 06/24/10 at 07:31:11
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I think it's a very very good book, but to be up to date you have to study all the games played by Radjabov and Carlsen after 2004. Also he says nothing about the controversial line in the variation 9.Bc4 Bd7 10.Bb3 Rc8 11.0-0-0 Ne5 12.Kb1! Shockeda6 . It's deeply analysed in Khalifman's book : opening  according to Anand volume 11 i think.
  
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Re: Is Dearing's Dragon book still relevant?
Reply #1 - 06/23/10 at 22:39:34
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It offers very little coverage about the Chinese dragon, as well as the Topalov system, both of which are together in a chapter about alternative aproaches. It also offers only a single chapter on 12 Kb1 which since then has posed numerous problems to the Ne5 approach.
Other than that, I 'm pretty sure that the extenstive coverage of the soltis variation still holds up fairly well for the most part.
  
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Is Dearing's Dragon book still relevant?
06/23/10 at 21:40:30
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I have bought Dearing's Dragon book and I'm wondering if it's still a relevant source in which to use in 2010, since it was published in 2004. I have an ELO of around 2300 and think it is a wonderful book (despite Tiviakov's rachous comments on it in NIC YB 75). But are most of the lines in the book holding up to current theory? I have read only a small amount of the book as of yet. I'm curious mostly about the Yugoslav and Chinese Dragon lines, specifically, of course.
  

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