Welcome to my
English Opening
(ECO A25) game with Houle page!
On this page I have posted one my chess games in which I played the
White side of the
English
Opening . The game includes analysis and diagrams.
[Event "ICC 60 0"]
[Site "Internet Chess Club"]
[Date "2006.07.18"]
[Round "-"]
[White "OnGoldenPawn"]
[Black "Houle"]
[Result "0-1"]
[ICCResult "White got disconnected and forfeits"]
[WhiteElo "1549"]
[BlackElo "1574"]
[Opening "English: Sicilian reversed"]
[ECO "A25"]
[NIC "EO.20"]
[Time "20:13:47"]
[TimeControl "3600+0"]
1. c4 e5 2. Nc3 Nc6 3. g3 f5 4. Bg2 Nf6 5. d3 d6 6. e4 Be6 7. Nd5 h6 8. Ne2
fxe4 9. dxe4 Be7 10. O-O O-O 11. f4 Na5 12. b3 c6 13. Nxf6+ Bxf6 14. f5 Bf7
15. Ba3 Be7 16. g4 b5 17. cxb5 cxb5 18. Qd2 Qb6+ 19. Kh1 Rab8 20. Rfd1 b4
21. Bc1 Rfd8 22. Qe3 Qb7 {White got disconnected and forfeits} 0-1
Online Chess Game
ICC
Game Played 18 July 2006
White: Mike Serovey (1549) Black: Houle
(1574)
1. c4 e5 2. Nc3 Nc6 3. g3 f5
Here Black challenges the Center with f5. White can play 4. d4
and transpose into a
Dutch Defense, but has a different plan in mind. Also, White doesn't know
the
Dutch Defense. White is planning to play the Tom Stiers line in the
Botvinick System.
4. Bg2 Nf6 5. d3 d6
I spent some time thinking about what to play at this point in
the game. I considered playing 6. e3 as well as 6. e4. If I had played 6. e3 I
would have followed up with 7. Nge2 and attacking on the Queenside. Instead I
decided to follow my original plan of playing 6. e4.
6. e4 Be6
Black is threatening to play fxe4 and after dxe4 capture to pawn
on c4. This game is very similar to one that Mikhail Botvinick played and in
that game he played Nd5 so that is what I played here.
7. Nd5 h6 (To keep the White Bishop off g5.) 8. Ne2 fxe4 9. dxe4 Be7
10. O-O O-O
Both sides are pretty well developed but White still needs to
decide where to put his dark-squared Bishop. White opts to expand on the
Kingside here.
11. f4 Na5 (Knights usually do NOT belong on the edge of the board.)
12. b3 c6
Black is forcing the White Knight on d5 to move. White's choices
are to retreat the Knight to c3, capture the Black Bishop on e7 or capture the
Black Knight on f6. White opted for the last choice because the Black Bishop is
blocked in by his own pawns and thus is a "tall pawn". The Black Knight on f6 is
active at this point in the game. There is nothing wrong with playing the Knight
back to c3, but it doesn't do anything either.
13. Nxf6+ Bxf6 14. f5 Bf7
White continues to expand on the Kingside and Black keeps his
Bishop aimed at d5. The Black pawn on d6 is now a target that White will put
pressure on.
15. Ba3 (Adding to the pressure on d6.) Be7 16. g4 b5
Black's dark-squared Bishop isn't doing much. Black expands on
the Queenside to get some counter play. White wants to keep the pressure on d6.
17. cxb5 cxb5 18. Qd2 Qb6+ 19. Kh1 Rab8
Black wants to take the pressure off d6 by blocking the Bishop at
a3 and forcing the Bishop to retreat. White keeps pressure on d6 by bringing a
Rook over to d1.
20. Rfd1 b4 21. Bc1 Rfd8 22. Qe3 Qb7 0-1
At this point in the game the ICC server disconnected White
for no apparent reason! White honestly thought that Black was the one
who got disconnected and waited about 20 minutes for Black to reconnect.
When White finally realized that he was the one disconnected
from the server and reconnected it was too late to finish the game. His
opponent was already playing someone else. IF Black allows White to finish
this game I will update this page with the rest of the game. My analysis of
this position shows that White's best move here is to play 23. Qf3 to
prevent Black from playing d5. White could then continue with Be3, Rd2 and
Rad1 to keep pressure on d6.
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