A20 English Opening: 1...e5 (1.c4 d6 2.g3 e5 3.Bg2)

I wonder if I can still see a day when I am playing under 100 games simultaneously as the last few months I have played over 270 games constantly and now I have 289 games in progress. The biggest reason my game load has not decreased all that significantly is the team matches I play at Chess.com, well being a member of 67 teams currently does mean a lot of team matches are created that I could join if I would like to add more games. I have tried to avoid most team matches but whenever there is a team match that they ask me personally to join and the team I would represent is underrated I may join the match to try and make it more evenly matched. For this reason I have also avoided joining all the teams I get invited for some time at least. I have added ten more puzzles that are divided in to mate in one, two, three and the newly created mate in 10 pages.

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Move	N	Result	Elo

1.e4	1,166,623	54%	2421
1.d4	947,298	55%	2434
1.Nf3	281,602	56%	2441
1.c4	182,102	56%	2442
1.g3	19,702	56%	2427
1.b3	14,265	54%	2427
1.f4	5,897	48%	2377
1.Nc3	3,801	51%	2384
1.b4	1,756	48%	2380
1.a3	1,206	54%	2404
1.e3	1,068	48%	2408
1.d3	954	50%	2378
1.g4	664	46%	2360
1.h4	446	53%	2374
1.c3	433	51%	2426
1.h3	280	56%	2418
1.a4	110	60%	2466
1.f3	92	46%	2436
1.Nh3	89	66%	2508
1.Na3	42	62%	2482

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1.c4 A10 English Opening d6 1...e5 2.g3 1/2-1/2 (27) Gurevich,D (2575) -Shabalov,A (2585) Chandler 1997 2.g3 e5 3.Bg2 A20 English Opening: 1...e5 c5 4.Nc3 4.b4 cxb4 5.a3 bxa3 6.Nf3 Nf6 7.0-0 Be7 8.Bxa3 0-0 9.Nc3 Nc6 10.d3 Re8 11.Qa4 Bd7 12.Qb3 Rb8 13.Rfb1 Bf8 14.Bc1 h6 15.Nd2 a6 16.Qb6 Qc8 17.Nde4 Nxe4 18.Bxe4 Be7 Gurevich,D (2575)-Shabalov,A (2585) Chandler 1997 1/2-1/2 4...Nf6N 4...g6 5.e3 5.d3 Bg7 6.e3 Nc6 7.Nge2 Be6 8.0-0 Nge7 9.Nd5 0-0 10.Nec3 Rb8 11.Rb1 Qd7 12.a3 Bh3 13.b4 Bxg2 14.Kxg2 f5 1/2-1/2 (14) Henrich,D (1870)-Zweschper,E (2126) Bad Homburg 2013 5...Bg7 6.h3 Ne7 7.Nge2 Nbc6 8.Nd5 0-0 9.Nec3 Be6 10.0-0 a6 11.d3 Rb8 12.a4 Nb4 13.Rb1 Nec6 14.Kh2 f5 15.Nxb4 Nxb4 16.Nd5 Nxd5 17.cxd5 Bd7 18.b4 cxb4 19.Rxb4 Owens,M (1846)-Simons,M (2159) St Clement Bay 2013 1/2-1/2 (42) 5.e4 b6 5...a6= 6.Nge2 6.f4± 6...g6 6...Nc6= keeps the balance. 7.d3± Bg7 7...h6 8.0-0 White is better. 0-0 8...Nc6 9.h3 9.f4± 9...Bb7 Black should try 9...Nc6 10.Be3 10.f4± 10...Nc6 11.Qd2 White should play 11.f4± 11...a6 11...Nd4 12.Kh2 12.f4± 12...Qd7 12...Nd4= 13.f4± h6 13...Nd4 14.Rf2 14.f5± 14...Qe7 14...exf4 15.Bxf4 Kh7 15.Nd5?

15.f5+- 15...Nxd5= 16.cxd5 Nd4? 16...exf4!= and Black is okay. 17.Bxf4 Ne5 17.fxe5+- dxe5 18.Bxh6 Nxe2 19.Rxe2 a5 19...Kh7 20.Rf2 f6 21.Be3 Rf7 22.h4 Raf8 23.Bh3 Bc8 23...f5 24.Raf1 Bc8 24.Bxc8 Rxc8 25.g4 Rcf8 26.Rg1 f5 27.Bg5 fxg4 28.Rxf7 Don't do 28.Bxe7?! Rxf2+ 29.Qxf2 Rxf2+ 30.Rg2 Rf3± 28...Qxf7 29.Rxg4 29.Qg2+- 29...Qf2+? 29...Qf1± keeps fighting. 30.Rg2 Rf3 30.Qxf2 Rxf2+ Endgame KRB-KRB 31.Rg2 Rf7 32.Bd8 Rf4 33.Kg3 Bf6? 33...b5 34.Rc2 Bf8 35.Bxa5 Be7 34.Bxf6 Rxf6 KR-KR 35.Rf2 Rd6 36.Kg4 Kg7 37.Kg5 a4 38.h5 gxh5 39.Rf5 Rh6 40.Kh4 Kg6 41.Rxe5

Threatens to win with Re6+. 41...Kf6 42.Re6+ Accuracy: White = 50%, Black = 22%. 1–0

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White	EloW	Black	EloB	Res

Vierjoki,T

1856

mschofield

1587

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