This was played on the first round of a five round tournament that was played at Turku in the early part of 2006. I think this was the fourth tournament I played that year and the similar progress I experienced in those three tournaments continued also on this one, with every tournament my rating dropped around 40 points. It was a disastrous start for the year and actually the whole year became very grim for me, as far as my chess results are concerned that is. I think I dropped my rating over 200 points in 2006, it is luckily something that I have not experienced any other year, so far anyway. This horrible chess year was followed by a long break from playing chess. I think I did not play the game in nine months or something like that.
The statistics for the moves that are considered to be part of this opening line are as follows: 1.c4 (4th most common move, 128254 games, result 56%, Elo-average 2440) 1...c5 (4th most popular move, 15758 games, result 56%, Elo-average 2426) 2.g3 (3rd most played move, 3604 games, result 54%, Elo-average 2424) 2...g6 (most often played reply, 1690 games, result 53%, Elo-average 2434) 3.Bg2 (most popular move, 1772 games, result 53%, Elo-average 2436) 3...Bg7 (most often played move, 2700 games, result 51%, Elo-average 2434) 4.Nc3 (most popular choice, 4082 games, result 50%, Elo-average 2422) 4...Nc6 (most often played reply, 6689 games, result 51%, Elo-average 2427) 5.a3 (2nd most popular alternative, 1589 games, result 53%, Elo-average 2435) 5...e5 (7th most common move, 60 games, result 68%, Elo-average 2362) 6.d3 (5th most often played move, 18 games, result 53%, Elo-average 2467), more often played moves are 6.Nf3 (403 games, result 59%, Elo-average 2465), 6.b4 (40 games, result 70%, Elo-average 2440), 6.e3 (35 games, result 53%, Elo-average 2425) and 6.Rb1 (22 games, result 61%, Elo-average 2428), 6...Nge7 (2nd most played move, 13 games, result 46%, Elo-average 2374), most popular move is 6...a5 (20 games, result 60%, Elo-average 2433), 7.e4 (3rd most played move, 1 game, result 50%, Elo-average 2244), more often seen moves are 7.Nf3 (36 games, result 54%, Elo-average 2438) and 7.Rb1 (12 games, result 50%, Elo-average 2439), 7...O-O (2nd most popular alternative, 1 game, result 50%, Elo-average 2368), more often played is the move 7...d6 (3 games, result 0%, Elo-average 2531), 8.Nge2 (the only move played in the position, 1 game, result 0%, Elo-average 2410) 8...d6 (most often played move, 10 games, result 40%, Elo-average 2407) 9.O-O (most popular choice, 38 games, result 42%, Elo-average 2381).
The statistics for the remainder of the moves that can be found in the LiveBook are as follows: 9...f5 (3rd most played move, 7 games, result 50%, Elo-average 2425), more often played moves are 9...a6 (11 games, result 45%, Elo-average 2386) and 9...Be6 (11 games, result 45%, Elo-average 2372). My opponent's next move 10.f4 is something that can't be found in the LiveBook. The only two moves that have been played in the position according to the LiveBook are 10.exf5 (4 games, result 63%, Elo-average 2385) and 10.Rb1 (4 games, result 25%, Elo-average 2388).
There were three games that I could find in my reference database that reached the position after 9.O-O and where both players had a rating of 2500 or above, but two of them were short draws, so I left them out.
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