Sicilian Dragon:"The report of my death was an exaggeration".

Submitted by mis3u on Tue, 03/03/2009 at 10:13pm.

It is heart-warming to see that in this era of computer-assisted chess preparation, Dragon can grow another head. Fischer outlined his 'science' of how to tame the beast 40 years ago, but it can't be that simple if super-GM like Magnus Carlsen chooses to play it in Linares. You can watch his Dragon breathing fire at Leinier Dominguez in the video presentation by GM Larry Christiansen on ICC:

http://webcast.chessclub.com/Linares09/Round9/GOTD.html

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by Wilsonia - 4 months ago
Bognor Regis, Sussex England

Member Since: Nov 2007
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It's really very interesting that nearly all of the great openings that were developed before the computer era are still around today. I think this is mostly due to the excellent understanding of the game that the players of yesteryear had but it's also the case that computers are as good - perhaps even better - at finding defensive resources as they are at refuting other opening lines.

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