The Beauty of the English Opening · Road to GM, Game 340 

I played my first proper English Opening against someone close to my level. It was a reversed Sicilian in which many patterns thematic to the English had happened or could have happened had I noticed them in time.
I must say that I've enjoyed playing 1.c4 despite the final result. I got an incredibly interesting and dominant position in which there were so many different plans and ideas to play for. You don't get that in most e4 or d4 openings.
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Tomic S. (1981) - Mykhailets P. (1927)
Vrsar Open 2024, Rd. 2
English Opening, Reversed Sicilian
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