D02 1.d4 d5 2.Nf3 sidelines, including 2...Nf6 3.g3 and 2...Nf6 3.Bf4 (1.Nf3 d5 2.d4 h6)

Albeit my game load sometimes feels a bit excessive sometimes, I have wanted to start more correspondence chess tournaments again... I guess it becomes a bit of a problem for me, then again there are people who play over 900 games at the same time, so I am still in the little league with close to a 200 games maybe slightly less. Two of my opponents have at Red Hot Pawn over one million moves made!! I have maybe 5900 moves there, so long, long way to go there. Well, I may not get my rating over 2700 ever in my life but I might get over one million moves at RHP, it would mean a lot of games and always playing to checkmate or until my opponent resigns. Well, okay it also means that I would have to move as soon as possible too to get that move limit asap. Am I willing to play like that for a long periods of time, maybe not.

[Event "Let's Play!"] [Site "Chess.com"] [Date "2009.01.04"] [Round "?"] [White "Vierjoki, Timo"] [Black "suwalkomprang"] [Result "1-0"] [ECO "D02"] [WhiteElo "1917"] [BlackElo "1711"] [Annotator "Tactical Analysis 2.10 (5s), TV"] [PlyCount "33"] [EventDate "2009.??.??"] 1. Nf3 (1. d4 d5 {1-0 (38) Gutman,G (2477)-Kocourkova,Z (1775) Pardubice 2013}) 1... d5 2. d4 {D02 Queen Pawn Game: Zukertort Variation} h6 {D02 1.d4 d5 2.Nf3 sidelines, including 2...Nf6 3.g3 and 2...Nf6 3.Bf4} 3. c4 dxc4 (3... Nf6 4. cxd5 Nxd5 5. e4 Nf6 6. Nc3 e6 7. Bd3 Nc6 8. O-O Be7 9. a3 O-O 10. Bc2 Re8 11. Qd3 Nh7 12. Bf4 b6 13. Rad1 a5 14. Qc4 Nb8 15. Qxc7 Qxc7 16. Bxc7 Bd8 17. Bg3 Bb7 18. Rfe1 {Gutman,G (2477)-Kocourkova,Z (1775) Pardubice 2013 1-0 (38)}) ( 3... e6 4. g3 Nf6 5. Bg2 Nc6 6. O-O Bd6 7. Nc3 a6 8. b3 O-O 9. Bb2 Re8 10. Re1 Rb8 11. e4 Bb4 12. e5 Ne4 13. Re3 Bxc3 14. Bxc3 b5 15. cxb5 axb5 16. Ne1 Ng5 17. Nd3 b4 18. Bb2 {Makarevich,J (1934)-Lyubokhiner,L (1709) St Petersburg 2014 1-0 (43)}) 4. Qa4+ Bd7 $146 (4... Nd7 5. Qxc4 c6 6. e4 g5 7. h3 Ngf6 8. Nc3 g4 9. hxg4 Nxg4 10. Rh4 Ngf6 11. Ng5 hxg5 12. Rxh8 g4 13. e5 Nd5 14. Nxd5 Nb6 15. Nxb6 Qxb6 16. Rh7 Be6 17. Qc3 Bf5 18. Rh8 O-O-O 19. Be3 {Menato,N (1532)-Piatti,F Siracusa 2006 1-0}) 5. Qxc4 a6 {1.20/17} (5... Nf6 $14 {0.41/22 }) 6. Bf4 {0.28/21} (6. e4 $16 {1.20/17}) 6... c6 {1.62/17} (6... Bc6 $11 { 0.28/21}) 7. e4 {1.19/20} (7. Nbd2 $18 {1.62/17}) 7... e6 {1.72/20} (7... Nf6 $16 {1.19/20 keeps fighting.}) 8. Bd3 {1.26/19} (8. Qc2 $18 {1.72/20}) 8... Nf6 {1.81/18} (8... c5 $16 {1.26/19}) 9. h3 $2 {-0.47/21} ({White should play} 9. a4 $18 {1.81/18}) 9... b5 $2 {2.17/20} (9... c5 $1 $15 {-0.47/21 keeps the upper hand.}) 10. Qc3 {1.25/21} (10. Qc2 $18 {2.17/20}) 10... a5 $16 {[#] aiming for ...Bb4.} 11. O-O $36 {1.30/20 Keeping Black busy.} (11. a3 $18 { 1.79/19}) 11... Bb4 {2.34/18} (11... Na6 $16 {1.30/20}) 12. Qc2 a4 13. Nc3 { 1.66/17} (13. a3 $142 {2.86/18}) 13... Ba5 $2 {3.35/18} (13... a3 {1.66/17} 14. Rfb1 O-O) 14. Rad1 Na6 15. Qe2 {1.64/19} (15. a3 $142 {3.05/17}) 15... O-O $2 { 4.54/18 [#]} (15... a3 {1.64/19} 16. d5 O-O) 16. Bb1 {2.59/21} (16. e5 $142 { 4.54/18}) 16... c5 $2 {4.77/20} (16... Nh5 {2.59/21 was necessary.}) 17. dxc5 { Accuracy: White = 16%, Black = 7%.} 1-0