Secrets Of The Sicilian Dragon

i recieved this book for christmas and read it all day and i am now already using the dragon on the internet as black all the time. This book is excellent it explains everything you need to know to be able to win with the dragon. Another grreat eric schiller book. I highly reccommend it to anybody.

Too many players go through the opening simply by memorizing several moves without understanding why those moves are meaningful. This is an excellent book for understanding the ideas behind one of the most complex and entertaining opening lines available to today's tournament player: you'll not find lengthy (and boring) variations to study and repeat from memory in your games but you'll learn which are the plans that come with the Dragon variation. This is surely the best first step any player should take when learning this (or any other) opening line. Once you know how the opening works, then you'll be able to move to an advanced Dragon book filled up with lines and use it for further study and reference (and then you'll be able to see those lines in a new light and really understand them!).

The Sicilian in general (and the Dragon in particular), is known as a sharp tactical opening. So along comes a book which attempts to teach you the general ideas that seem to occur again and again. Instead of endless waves of mind-numbing brilliant tactical moves, the authors present a list of ten concepts that Black should keep in mind throughout the game. I still remember how my eyes lit up during an OTB game when I realized I could sacrifice the exchange on c3 (idea #3).The authors are clearly pro-Dragon, but they do make the effort to present the themes that White should pursue. There is a second list of nine themes for White, one of which (attacking the King along the h-file) has changed the way I approach going after the castled King.Be sure to note that this book, in keeping with its "idea" approach, does not attempt to analyze lots of lines. It presents the concepts and expects you to try them out over the board.

This book was very helpful to my research of the sicilian dragon. I felt that it covered every point with enough detail so that I understood it all carefully and knew why things were being executed in the manner they were. I am so encouraged by this book that I am going to purchase another copy for a close relative of mine. I would recommend this excellent book to anyone who feels like knowing anything about the sicilian dragon.