A10 English Opening: Unusual Replies for Black (1.c4 Nc6)

This evening will be a busy one for me as I really have to get moves done in my games if I don't, I end up having every day the same problem always under 10 hours to move in one or more of my games. The problem is of course that I can't seem to find a good plan most of the time. It somehow feels like the games have gotten a lot harder than they used to be or something has happened to my ability to play decent moves. Sure there are still easy games in the mix in all my in progress games and I do try finish those quicker so that I can spend more time in the harder ones. Maybe I spend even too much time on thinking some positions. I do find that I accept draws maybe easier than previously. Or maybe the positions where my opponents make the draw offer are more agreeable than maybe in some of my over the board games over the years. I do not offer draws that often myself and that may have been quite constant thing in my 13 years of playing chess. I have updated mate in one, two and three puzzle sections of the blog today.

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1.c4 Nc6 A10 English Opening: Unusual Replies for Black A10 English Opening: Anglo-Lithuanian Variation 2.g3 Ne5 2...d5 3.cxd5 Qxd5 4.Nf3 Bg4 5.Nc3 Qd7 6.Bg2 e5 7.h3 Bf5 8.d3 Bd6 9.e4 Be6 10.d4 Nxd4 11.Nxd4 exd4 12.Qxd4 f6 13.Be3 Ne7 14.0-0-0 0-0 15.f4 Nc6 16.Qd2 Qf7 17.f5 Varga,K (2212)-To, N (2352) Budapest 2018 0-1 (61) 3.b3N 3.e4 e6 3...Ng6 4.Bg2 e5 5.Ne2 d6 6.Nbc3 c6 7.d4 Be6 8.d5 Bd7 9.0-0 h5 10.dxc6 bxc6 11.c5 dxc5 12.h4 Nh6 13.Na4 Bg4 14.Qxd8+ Rxd8 15.Re1 Bxe2 16.Rxe2 Rd1+ 17.Bf1 Ng4 18.Nc3 Plenkovic,Z (2321)-Marinic Kragic,M (2093) Omis 2005 1-0 (63) 4.d4 Ng6 5.Bg2 e5 6.Ne2 Bb4+ 7.Nbc3 Nf6 8.0-0 0-0 9.dxe5 Nxe5 10.Nd5 Nxd5 11.cxd5 Bc5 12.h3 Qf6 13.Kh1 d6 14.f4 Ng4 15.Qe1 Re8 16.Ng1 Bf5 17.hxg4 Qh6+ Bukal,V (2400)-Mestrovic,Z (2395) St Ingbert 1989 0-1 (49) 3...g5 4.Bb2 Ng6 5.Bxh8 Nxh8 6.Bg2 Bg7 7.Nc3 e5 8.Nf3 White has a decisive advantage. h6 8...d6 9.e3 f5 9.0-0 Qf6?

9...d6 10.e3 Ng6 10.Nd5 Qd6 10...Qd8 might work better. 11.d4 e4 11.e4 b5? 11...c6 12.Ne3 Ne7 12.cxb5 c5 13.bxc6 Qxc6 13...dxc6 14.Ne3 Ne7 14.Rc1+- Qa6 15.Nc7+ Kd8 16.Nxa6 Bxa6 17.Re1 Ne7 18.d4 exd4 19.Nxd4 Rb8 20.Nc6+ Ke8 21.Nxb8 Nhg6 22.Qxd7+ Kf8 23.Qd8# Accuracy: White = 29%, Black = 0%. 1–0

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White	EloW	Black	EloB	Res

Vierjoki,T	1837	sandermurray	1082	1–0
Vierjoki,T	-	Miranda	-	0–1
Vierjoki,T	-	Willow	-	1–0
Vierjoki,T	-	Miranda	-	1–0
Vierjoki,T	-	Miranda	-	1–0
Vierjoki,T	-	Miranda	-	1–0
Vierjoki,T	-	Miranda	-	1–0
Vierjoki,T	-	Roxy	-	0–1
Vierjoki,T	-	Miranda	-	1–0
Vierjoki,T	-	Roxy	-	0–1
Vierjoki,T	-	Roxy	-	0–1
Vierjoki,T	-	Roxy	-	0–1
Vierjoki,T	-	Roxy	-	1–0
Vierjoki,T	-	Roxy	-	1–0
Vierjoki,T	-	Roxy	-	1–0
Vierjoki,T	-	Roxy	-	1–0
Vierjoki,T	-	Roxy	-	1–0
Vierjoki,T	1551	Roxy	1931	1–0
Vierjoki,T	1840	KERES111	-	0–1
Vierjoki,T	1802	michal	1402	1–0

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