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Is there any way to look up how to deal with certain situations?

I am a new player, and I have trouble attacking when the king has been castled with a bishop in front. I'm not very good with chess terminology but the situation would be when:

h7 pawn is unmoved
pawn to g6
knight to f6
bishop to g7
the castle rook to f8 and king to g8

Does that position have a specific name so I might look up good ways to deal with it?
this is called a kingside fianchetto by black and the classical attack on it would be changing the fianchetto bishop by putting your own bishop on h6, typically defended by your queen and open the position by advancing your own h pawn and change it on g6. Once the h file is open you try to use that with your rooks and queen.
Very often you yourself castle queenside in this types of attack.

You can see these kind of attacks very often in the so called "Dragon" of the Sicilian Defense for instance.
Fischer in his "My 60 Memorable Games: chess tactics, chess strategies with Bobby Fischer" ( books.google.hu/books?id=Whm_CAAAQBAJ&pg=PP20&dq=My+60+memorable+games+sac+sac+mate&hl=en&sa=X&ei=ku6YVbXTGsucsgHaqLfgAg&ved=0CB8Q6AEwAA#v=onepage&q=My%2060%20memorable%20games%20sac%20sac%20mate&f=false ) says about this position:

"He won't get a second chance to snap off the Bishop! Now I felt the game was in the bag if I didn't botch it. I'd won dozens of skittles games in analogous positions and had it down to a science: pry open the h file, sac, sac ... mate!""

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