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Dragon,
a chess program by Yuri Shpeer, not to confused with the Chess Assistant Dragon analysis engine, which is based on Centaur by Victor Vikhrev and Alexey Manjakhin along with some code units incorporated from Mirage by Vladimir Rybinkin and Yuri Shpeer . Dragon played the WMCCC 1995 in Paderborn, as well the Aegon 1996 and with 4/6, the Aegon 1997 human machine tournaments.

Selected Games

Aegon 1997 round 4, Roberto Cifuentes vs. Dragon

[Event "Aegon 1997"]
[Site "The Hague NED"]
[Date "1997.04.21"]
[Round "4"]
[White "Roberto Cifuentes"]
[Black "Dragon"]
[Result "0-1"]

1.d4 d5 2.c4 e6 3.Nf3 Nf6 4.g3 dxc4 5.Qa4+ Nbd7 6.Bg2 Be7 7.O-O O-O 8.Qxc4 a6 
9.Bf4 Nd5 10.Nc3 Nxf4 11.gxf4 Nb6 12.Qb3 Nd5 13.e3 c6 14.Rac1 f6 15.a3 a5 
16.Rfd1 Qe8 17.Ne4 Qg6 18.Qc2 a4 19.Kh1 Rd8 20.Rg1 Ra5 21.Bf1 Qh6 22.Rg3 Bd7 
23.Rh3 Qg6 24.Bd3 Qg4 25.Rg3 Qh5 26.Rcg1 g6 27.Be2 Qh6 28.Nxf6+ Bxf6 29.Rxg6+ 
hxg6 30.Rxg6+ Qg7 31.Rxg7+ Kxg7 32.Ng5 Rh8 33.Qe4 Nc7 34.Bd3 Rh6 35.Qg2 Kf8 
36.Nh7+ Kf7 37.Nxf6 Rxf6 38.Qh3 Ke7 39.Qh4 Be8 40.f5 exf5 41.Qf4 Kd7 42.Qg5 
Rf7 43.Bc4 Nd5 44.f3 b5 45.Bd3 Ne7 46.e4 fxe4 47.fxe4 Ra7 48.Be2 Kd8 49.h4 Bd7 
50.h5 Kc7 51.Qe5+ Kb7 52.Qd6 Ka8 53.h6 Rb7 54.Bh5 Nc8 55.Qg6 Rf1+ 56.Kg2 Rf8 
57.Qg5 Be6 58.Kh2 Rd7 59.Qe5 Bc4 60.Qc5 Rf6 61.Qg5 Rf2+ 62.Kg3 Rf1 63.Qc5 Kb7 
64.Bg4 Rg1+ 65.Kh4 Rh1+ 66.Kg3 Rd8 67.Qg5 Rg8 68.Qe5 Be2 69.d5 Rxh6 70.dxc6+ 
Rxc6 71.Kf2 Bxg4 72.Qxb5+ Nb6 0-1

Namesake

• Dragon by Komodo Chess
• Dragon analysis engine of Convekta's Chess Assistant
• Dragon by Bruno Lucas

See also

• Centaur
• Mirage

Forum Posts

• Dragon chess from Russia:any experiences? by Michael G. Kramer, rgcc, October 3, 1996
• Dragon by Markus Mock, rgcc, April 30, 1997
• Re: Dragon x3, Nightmare x2, Jester x2 ... by Frank Quisinsky, CCC, October 07, 2002
• Заставить работать машину клиента! Конференция by Vladimir Rybinkin, Конференция iXBT.com, September 01, 2009 » Centaur, Mirage, Dragon (Chess Assistant)

External Links

Chess Engine

• Dragon's (Chess, ru) ICGA Tournaments

Misc

• Dragon from Wikipedia
• Polycephaly from Wikipedia
• Slavic dragon from Wikipedia
• Sicilian Defence, Dragon Variation from Wikipedia
• Sicilian Defence, Accelerated Dragon from Wikipedia
• Dragonchess from Wikipedia
• Larry Coryell - The Dragon Gate (Spaces Revisited, 1997), YouTube Video

feat. Billy Cobham, Biréli Lagrène, Richard Bona

References

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