A bit of topic but related to the opening.

There is  book series called "Attacking chess 101" that shows attacking games and mistakes at 1800 elo and lower.
Vol 2 has a thematical chapter about Chinese Dragon.  In the first game in that chapter one of my old internet games are shown as a model games for black.

Dragon is slightly worse than najdorf in my opinion.

brabo, I did like your website in english too. I did not check your analysis in depht but I noticed before your post that 14.Ndb5 is interesting. But did you look at 15.axb3 d5!? (Vigorito's anotation in his book, and it looks to be a good alternative), for example 16.exd5 Bxb5 17.Nxb5 Qa5 18.Nc3 Rb or Rf-d8, or 18.Na3 Nxd5 19.h4 Qc5. Ok this is still a "starting point" for analysis but it seems critical for the 14.Ndb5 line.

Well, brabo, thanks for mentioning me in this article!
I really appreciate it, because I think your blog is one of the best chess blogs in the World Wide Web, especially since you started to publish your articles in English.
Just to say that the the early 10...Na5 (without 10...Rb8) and 11...Nxb3 12.cxb3! doesn't bring any good for black as seen in many correspondence chess games. White has a stable advantage which can be turned into a win in the today's correspondence chess. Here is my experience as a first player:

Koji wrote on 06/18/14 at 14:57:14:


He is also on the ECF grading list and has been for many years.
http://www.ecfgrading.org.uk/new/menu.php?PlayerCode=285030J&file=player
For those unfamiliar with it, the ECF grading scale approximately equates 175 to an Elo of 2000.

He played in this year's 4NCL 3rd division.

Here's one of his games.



The material promoting the book describes him as a top player at an internet site, but doesn't say which one.

There's a website as well
http://www.sicilianchinesedragon.com/

A preview of the book is at http://www.sicilianchinesedragon.com/book-preview

That preview tries to explain the reasoning behind standard moves like Kb1 and Na5. If you already know these are normal candidate moves in many sharp Sicilian positions, the book isn't telling you anything you don't know. To judge from the chapter headings, he's just describing the standard punts against the Dragon. The more sophisticated of his audience already know these and want to know whether they work or not.

RoleyPoley wrote on 06/19/14 at 18:58:53:

Chessville's website is not active anymore, but you can find it with the way back machine, see http://web.archive.org/web/20130120030233/http://www.chessville.com/reviews/TheC...
The review recommends the book "to anyone, who has the dragon in his repertoire". He complains about the bad printing, however.

It appears that his highest rating was 1944, but that he is now in the high 1800's.  Below are the results of a search I entered:

The Chinese Dragon - by Raymond Pearson. The Chinese Dragon refers to the chess position shown here, where Black has just played 10...
[Search domain www.sicilianchinesedragon.com] sicilianchinesedragon.com

The Fighting Dragon - Part 7: The Chinese Dragon - Chess Videos - Chess.com
I viewed this video and then bought the excellent book on the Chinese Dragon by Raymond Pearson. We are working hard to make Chess.com available in over 70 languages.
[Search domain www.chess.com] chess.com

Raymond Pearson @SicilianChinese - Twitter. Author of the chess book The Chinese Dragon and audio volunteer for the Braille Chess Association.
[Search domain ppfinder.com] ppfinder.com

The Four Nations Chess League Rounds 3-4 (2014) - Chess-DB.com
Browse chess games played in the tournament The Four Nations Chess League. Participants. 1803018. Raymond Pearson. 1944. 0.

Intriguing.  Has anyone else found out anything more?  Being a lower B player I withhold any judgements. 

As far as I can tell, there's been no mention in this forum of this book:

http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/1780882181

Any thoughts? My first question would be who this Raymond Pearson guy is really. The book description bills him as one of the top correspodence players, but the only OTB info I can find is this FIDE profile:

http://ratings.fide.com/card.phtml?event=1803018

and if that's him, I 'd be very sceptical of the analysis.

Material on the chinese is quite scarce - is this worth it?