Powell: The Fighting Dragon: How to Defeat the Yugoslav Attack topmaterial when I began to write

when I began to write this book

turn the tables by launching a devastating counter-attack yourself

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Powell: The Fighting Dragon: How to Defeat the Yugoslav Attack topmaterial when I began to writeWhats the best way to start learning a new opening? You can either fill your head with masses of variations and then try to keep it all straight at the chessboard, or you can absorb key patterns and themes that crop up over and over again in your chosen variation. In The Fighting Dragon, NM Paul Powell takes the second approach. Using a carefully selected collection of short games from international play, Powell shows the dangers that lurk for White