Author: Telmo C. Escobar
Date: 12:18:05 02/14/06
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On February 13, 2006 at 18:55:02, Djordje Vidanovic wrote: > >this is very personal. I simply think that the Dragon (including the Yugoslav >lines :-)) is inferior to the natural 5...a6 (the Najdorf). Not only >statistics, but the "gut feeling" if you wish suggest 5...a6. Don't you agree? > I don't agree. The Najdorf is more fashionable today, but there is no solid reason to be sure that it will be more fashionable forever. >Besides, the Dragon is probably too passive for computers playing black and >being subjected to the white pawn storm (g4, f5 etc) or the open h-file. > >Djordje Agreed. Today computer are still naive playing Dragon-like positions. Things could be different ten years hence. Telmo
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