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Date: 28 Feb 2005 21:28:10
From: Stefan Renzewitz
Subject: Opinions about the new dragon book and chessbase CD
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A year ago I studied Chris Wards 'Winning with the Dragon 2'. At first I was
quite excited about this opening, but than I started to manage my repertoire
and played my first Dragon online games I felt a little bit left alone in
some situations. At the end I went for the Accelerated Dragon (book from
Nielsen and Hansen).
Now I saw that Chessbase released 2 CDs about the Dragon by Rogozenko. I
have the Anti-Sicilian book from him and I like it in general. However, in
general I prefer books over chessbase opening CDs with a few exceptions. On
the other hand I read great reviews about the Dragon CDs. Just before I was
ready to go for them someone called Dearing had the nerve to release a
totally new book about this fascinating opening and even worse it got
brilliant feedbacks too!
Well, now I'm sitting here and have the dilemma to decide for which one I
should go (or both?). Anybody owns both or knows both and can make some
comparisons? I'm playing it with Black if this is important for evaluation.
Thanks in advance!
Stefan
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Date: 28 Feb 2005 13:19:26
From: Ron
Subject: Re: Opinions about the new dragon book and chessbase CD
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In article <[email protected] >,
"Stefan Renzewitz" <[email protected] > wrote:
> Well, now I'm sitting here and have the dilemma to decide for which one I
> should go (or both?). Anybody owns both or knows both and can make some
> comparisons? I'm playing it with Black if this is important for evaluation.
The thing about an opening like the dragon is that no one book is going
to be enough. While reading a good book on the opening is only going to
help you, I think the limitations of Ward's book stem, in large part,
because it's a book of, what, 200-odd pages?
The Dragon isn't an opening that can be distilled into that little
space. Heck, I'm not sure you could really do justice to just the Bc4
variations of the Yugoslav in that little space.
All of which argues for the CD, but CDs can be hard to navigate, and
tend to do less teaching.
I suspect that if you're serious about the Dragon, you may have to get
both.
-Ron
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Date: 28 Feb 2005 23:50:13
From: Stefan Renzewitz
Subject: Re: Opinions about the new dragon book and chessbase CD
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"Ron" <[email protected] > schrieb im Newsbeitrag
news:[email protected]...
> The thing about an opening like the dragon is that no one book is going
> to be enough. While reading a good book on the opening is only going to
> help you, I think the limitations of Ward's book stem, in large part,
> because it's a book of, what, 200-odd pages?
> The Dragon isn't an opening that can be distilled into that little
> space. Heck, I'm not sure you could really do justice to just the Bc4
> variations of the Yugoslav in that little space.
I know what you mean, I used Attilas CD about the Dragon too. However,
Ward's approach is to choose a repertoire for Black. Thus he skips many
possible variations for Black, but the book is supposed to cover White
completely (except the anti-sicilians of course). At least this is what I
thought, but as said I made the experience you would have expected.
> All of which argues for the CD, but CDs can be hard to navigate, and
> tend to do less teaching.
>
> I suspect that if you're serious about the Dragon, you may have to get
> both.
>
I feared you would say that! :) Then I guess I should first start with the
book as books have usually more text about the general ideas than opening
CDs. Then again I read an review which stated the CDs have incredible much
text too...
Stefan
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