Originally posted by diskamyl
yes, nf3 almost all the time transposes into some kind of queen's gambit opening. if you want to stick with the hardcore "accelerated fianchetto English" then there's no choice but 1.c4 2.g3 🙂

This has nothing to do with transposing into the English but I was thinking.... Against the reti opening I wonder how 1.Nf3 b6 2.g3 Bb7 3.Bg2 e5 would do? maybe if white plays 4.0-0 then e4? Of course 4.d3 first is better. I think the main problem after e5 is that it will be hard to play d5