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Hi everyone!

Six reasonable offerings and an interesting fact for you this month.

To download the May '05 Dragon Sicilian games directly in PGN form click here: Download Games


First, a disaster for Black in the Hyper Accelerated Dragon/c3 Hybrid:











See Houska-Gaponenko.

Krejci-Cernousek gives some hope for Black in a critical 9 Bc4 Yugoslav Attack ...Qa5 line:











The critical position after 14...b4.


Next up, two Black victories in the Chinese variation:











Don't miss Chocenka-Sakalauskas and Chen Fan-Bu Xiangzhi

And then we have the good old 9 0-0-0 Yugoslav Attack starting with a 9...d5, Charbonneau-Snape.

Then the rare 9...Qa5:











in Yakovich-Pogonina.

AND Finally a 9...Bd7 which interestingly is the quickest Dragon victory by either colour in the TWICS post Megabase 2005.

I thought you might like to know that. (Note no divine intervention there as Jesus loses in 15 moves!).











Try to guess White's next move, a blunder!

Then play through De Andres Valvidia-Valden.

June will be soon, and Eric, drop me an e-mail some time.

Bye for now

Chris

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