bragesjo wrote on 05/02/16 at 11:08:08:


d3-Ruy is actually quite venomous.  Classical Dragon is not. This is the main reason you do see GM:s playing d3-Ruy but not classical Dragon.

Doesn't it being neglected for so long automatically mean there will be ideas for white? You'd have a very hard time convincing me that it is less intrinsically dangerous than say these trendy d3 Lopez things!

Would have to dig for them of course.

The Be2 yugoslav like line is also suggested for white in a chessbase magazin dvd  that came after the Dangereus weapons book is bit tricky since blacks standard replys to 9 0-0-0 yogoslav  are unconving.

Taylors book so called Alekhine attack is tothless if black knows theory.
I compared Taylors book and Jones book and Taylor did not cover a piece sac when white is busted and I found no signigicant improvment. Taylor alsp covered Karpov system that I would assess ad equal chanses.

I'm not aware of any really significant changes in the theory of the Classical Dragon in recent years, so most of the old books (Ward, Golubev, Dearing, Gufeld etc.) should provide a decent basis for study, topped up with a database search for any recent refinements. Of course there are also newer sources, particularly Jones's book for Quality Chess, PH Nielsen's DVD and naturally Chess Publishing.

Tim Taylor's white repertoire book has some material from the white side, but it is not hard to find improvements for Black.

Also on the White side, Tiviakov has sometimes reached the Classical Dragon by transposition from the Grand Prix attack.

The line that starts as a Classical but becomes a sort of Yugoslav with Be2 instead of f3 is interesting and tricky; it was suggested in one of the Dangerous Weapons books.

The so-called Dragadorf (which I think should be called the Reshevsky system!) is interesting, but not many professionals appear to trust it enough to play it regularly as part of their "bread-and-butter" repertoire.