Natalia Pogonina's Sicilian Dragon Contest: Results

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What should Natalia do to make Pogonina.com more interesting for you?

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Poker or chess: what do you like more?

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What's the largest monetary chess prize you ever won?

How much time per day do you spend on chess-related activities?

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Which time control do you prefer for over-the-board tournaments?

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What is the strongest national chess team in the world?

Will Magnus Carlsen's rating reach FIDE 2900?

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Do you think you can become a GM?

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Written by Natalia Pogonina

Monday, 07 September 2009

As a reply to the Dragon Contest, @mwlphelps (at Twitter) forwarded
me a link to a shop selling all sorts of Dragon Variation stuff

We should've published the results of the Dragon Variation Contest a few days ago. Unfortunately, due to technical problems, some of the messages got lost. We tried to restore them using our memory, so excuse us if some inaccuracies occur.

From left to right: Ivan Bryukhanov and Oleg Paradzynsky

Ivan Bryukhanov (Ukraine) – a well-known chess composer, solver, author of over 825 chess problems that have been published in chess magazines all over thw world. Likes reading, is currently mastering the Internet. Especially for our Contest, Ivan played a game in the Dragon against his colleague (and ex-student) Oleg Paradzynsky.

Bryukhanov, I – Paradzynsky, O

Cees Smits

Cees Smits (Netherlands) – a correspondence chess player, who also plays for a local club OTB. He hopes that you would enjoy his game in the Dragon as much as he did. Please note Cees' modesty - he lost that game!

Gotay, A – Smits, C

Peter Zhdanov and Natalia Pogonina

Peter Zhdanov (Russia) – you might have heard about him before. He's a very devoted fan of the Dragon Variation, just like me. For Pogonina.com he has chosen two of his games in the Dragon (as White and as Black), as well as his article for the 64 Chess Review magazine.

Peter Zhdanov on the Dragon Variation

Comments (2)

	1. Written by This e-mail address is being protected from spam bots, you need JavaScript enabled to view it on 14:32 09 ñåíòÿáðÿ 2009 ã.
	i like the sicilian i really enjoyed you stuff and pliz can you email me anything from the sicilian. thanx http://wwww

	2. Written by Peter Zhdanov on 16:15 09 ñåíòÿáðÿ 2009 ã.
	i like the sicilian E-mail ANYTHING from the Sicilian? Do you mean clothes, or the variations?

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