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I like your sicilian system AtCherryfindom - sort of like the Alapin but the move order avoids a lot of tricks. I like 7. cxd4 better than 7. Nxd4 just cause of the classical pawn center. HoweverNxd4 has its merits because it immidiately allows f4, shifting into something resembling the Levinfish attack with d6 - and black doesn`t have any d5 push because it would result in an isolated pawn position. Your opponent has the right idea with 8... b6 but it does noting to prevent 9. f4, which i like better than 9. Bf4. After 9. N5g6, your opponent has spent 4 out of 9 moves moving his knights! White has clearly won the opening 10... e5 was absolutely necessary IMO but stockfish likes 10... Bd7, but not by much more. Rather than retreating the knight to the inferior f3 square, I like 11. Qf3, creating the threat of Qxf7 where white has a crushing initiative, ex. 11... exd4? 12. Qxf7+ Kd7 13. Rd1 Kc7 (running while they can) 14. Rxd4 (This move is unimportant, stockfish suggests Bb7, Ba6, or Qd7; we`ll go with 14... Bb7) 15. Rxd6! Qxd6 ( forced, discovered attack is crushing and this way black gets a bishop) 16. Bxd6 + Kxd6 17. Na3, intending Rd1+, and white is simply winning. So the knight cannot be taken, and black would have to play the weakening move 11... f6, and you can now put your knight on the more aggressive square f5 or e6. I like 12. h3, I can find anything active and it`s a very good prophylactic move because now black`s light-squared bishop must develop to d7. I`m not sure what the point of 12... h6 was - it seems just to waste a move and end any control black had of the light squares on the kingside. Why 14. Re1? 14. Nc4 is far more active and black has no way to exploit the pin. 14... Nc4 is simply bad, black relinquishes center control and doubles his pawns. 16... b5? gets a question mark because it weakens the queenside pawns and blocks the a6 bishop. 17. Nxd6!+ is a very pretty combination - my line goes like this 17... Kd7 18. Nb7+ Kc7 19. Nxd8 Rxd8 20. Nd4 Kb7 21. Bd5+ (stockfish doesn`t like it but it ends the pin on the d4 knight and opens the e-file) Ka8, and the knight will go to c6 with a continuing initiative. A very powerful attack and an accurate game! The moral of the story is: don`t play f6/f3 with a bishop eyeing that square, especially if the king hasn`t castled!!

Thanks IvnKaramazov

Savage!

Here is one that you guys might like. 

I like it Ben_dubuque - very fun line! Your game is exactly the same as one played by GM Yasser Seriawan, and a favorite of mine.

A Bullet game where I started strong but didn't finish well (I lost on time).

I like your game Robhad - effective demonstration of how to use a weak color complex. Idk about everyone else, but when I first learned chess I was told to move pawns in a "Porcupine" formation much like your game because it was difficult break up - however yes 11. Bxe4? really creates some weaknesses - maybe they hadn`t learned some positional principles?

This is an actual tournament game that I played last month in Amsterdam. My opponent resigned after 10 moves. 

Sorry I don't know how to work the diagram thing on this site. I will just give the notation  but if somebody knows how to do it I'd be grateful.

M. de Wit vs. D. Woning, ASP Chess Tournament, Amsterdam 15-7-2017

1. e4 e6 2. d4 d5 3. c4?! dxe4 4. Nc3 Nc6 5. Be3 f5 6. f3 Nf6 7. Be2 Bd6 8. Qc2? f4! 9. fxe4? fxe3 10. e5 Nxd4   0-1

Kant, why not take the free pawn on your third move? It may get into complications, but White comes out on top on all of them. And it would probably make your task easier (that is to win the game).

Thanks for the tip, Barefoot. I'll give it a try in the future.