A34 Symmetrical English: 2.Nc3, lines with ...d5 (1.c4 c5 2.Nc3 g6)

I start to have a problem, I joined yet another tournament and when it starts my games in progress are around 180. There might be one other tournament that has not started yet, so getting close to 200 simultaneous games... If this keeps up the way it has I may have 500-1000 games in progress at the same time. Luckily few at least are close to end so that will help slightly. I wonder though at which point the barrier comes to me and I start losing games on time. Has not happened yet but chances are that the time is fast approaching.

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1.c4 c5 1...g6 2.Nc3 1-0 (61) Aronian,L (2803)-Le Quang,L (2703) Beijing 2013 2.Nc3 A34 English Opening: Symmetrical Variation. Normal Variation g6 A34 Symmetrical English: 2.Nc3, lines with ...d5 3.e3 3.g3 Bg7 4.Qc2 Nc6 0-1 (54) Degallaix,N-Schmitz,T Belgium 1998 3...Bg7 4.Qc2 4.d4 cxd4 5.exd4 Nf6 6.d5 0-0 7.Nf3 d6 8.Be2 Bg4 9.0-0 Nbd7 10.Be3 Rc8 11.Nd2 Bxe2 12.Qxe2 a6 13.Rfe1 Re8 14.Rac1 e6 15.dxe6 Rxe6 16.Qd1 Ne5 17.Bg5 Nxc4 18.Rxe6 fxe6 Aronian,L (2803)-Le Quang,L (2703) Beijing 2013 1-0 (61) 4...Nc6 4...Nf6 5.g3 d5 6.cxd5 Nxd5 7.a3 Nc6 8.Bg2 Nxc3 9.bxc3 Bf5 10.e4 Be6 11.d3 Ne5 12.Ke2 b5 13.Ke3 Bb3 14.Qb1 Qb6 15.Ke2 Qe6 16.Ke1 Rd8 17.Bf1 Nxd3+ 18.Bxd3 Bxc3+ 19.Ke2 Baldursson,H (2167)-Petursson,M (2513) Reykjavik 2017 0-1 5.g3 e6 5...Nf6! 6.Bg2 d6 6.Bg2N 6.Nf3= feels stronger. 6.Nge2 Nb4 7.Qb1 d5 8.a3 Nc6 9.cxd5 exd5 10.Qd3 Nf6 11.Qb5 d4 12.Na4 dxe3 13.Qxc5 exf2+ 14.Qxf2 0-0 15.Bg2 Bg4 16.Nac3 Re8 17.0-0 Qb6 18.Qxb6 axb6 19.Nf4 g5 20.Nfd5 Nxd5 Degallaix,N-Schmitz,T Belgium 1998 0-1 (54) 6...Nge7 6...Nf6 7.Nge2= 0-0 7...d5 8.cxd5 exd5 8.a3 8.d4= 8...d5 9.cxd5 9.d3 9...exd5

White must now prevent ...d4. 10.0-0? 10.d4 10...d4!-+ 11.exd4 cxd4 12.Bxc6? 12.Nf4 dxc3 13.dxc3 12...Nxc6 13.Nb5 d3 14.Qd1 dxe2 15.Qxe2 Bh3

Strongly threatening ...Qd5. 16.Rd1 Qd5 17.f3 Rad8 18.Rb1 a6 19.Nc3 Bd4+ 20.Kh1 Rde8 20...Bxc3 21.d4 Bxd4 21.Qd3 21.Nxd5 Rxe2 22.Nf4 21...Qe5 aiming for ...Qe1+! 22.Ne4 f5 23.Qc4+ Kg7 24.Re1 fxe4 Accuracy: White = 18%, Black = 37%. 0–1

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