Dragon Variation, Fianchetto Variation

With 6. g3 White meets the Dragon by preparing Bg2 and O-O, setting a bishop of his own on the long light-square diagonal behind the e4-pawn and declining the opposite-side castling of the Yugoslav Attack. The play is calmer and more positional. Black nearly always continues 6...Bg7, with 6...Nc6 a distant second. The engine considers the position balanced, and results in online games are fairly even.