When playing as White, if you do not want to enter sharp opening
systems, you would do better to fight against the Dragon by
castling short. These specific variations are the theme of
Rogozenko‘s CD Dragon 1. White castles short and basically does not
try to achieve an opening advantage. But the character of the
positions is completely different from when White castles queenside
and often does not fall in with Black’s plans. The author himself
came to this painful conclusion the first time he played the
Dragon; the annotations to this game alone cast much light on the
opening.
