A little English Help

I play the English as my only white opening, ususally 1.c4 2. Nc3 3. g3 4. Bg2 5. e2 6. Nge2.

I like this setup, as it is pretty flexible. I keep running into one problem... Black tries to trade off light squared bishops on h3 or g2. If I see it coming, sometimes I move the rook, and retreat to h1.

But I have lost a few games lately where I trade the bishops, the queen gets in one of the weak squares on h3 or f3, and, supports a mate on f2 or h2.

I have considered trying a non fianchetto variety of English. What do you think?

you mean 5.e3?.

Yes, widderstein, I mean 5. e3. Sorry.

Here is an example game of what I am talking about. Obviously I blundered huge at the end, but it still illustrates a theme that has gotten me beat a lot lately.

http://www.chess.com/livechess/game.html?id=149830495

Oh, and thanks for your post ccssii. I guess part of my problem is I am to loathe to trade the bishop off. I hate having that hole there.

Thanks Guys! Very helpful!

So I've been trying to follow the advice from this thread and play mores strongly in the center, and avoid just passively playing a system. It has brought some better results.

http://www.chess.com/echess/game.html?id=46186379&stay=1

Nice mate at the end if I do say so.

I love it when people castle queenside against the English. It seems to always end in a beatdown.

Thanks ccssii!

Oops!  My bad. Thank you very much hapahauli, very very helpful.

Yall up for starting a vote chess game, where I can just watch the discussion? I think that might be instructive.