Hi there in this letter, I want to introduce you to the London system.
Now you can check out my dates, of course, in London system.
It's a great repertoire in its own right.
So if you want to know a system with whites, which avoids too much opening theory, which you might
need to memorize at the expense of spending time on other essential parts of your game, like middle
game and name, you might want to use a system.
There is some good logic in using a system just to get you over the first few moves castling safely
with a reasonable position to playing.
So the London system starts with day four of the night and things.
The trends you move now is before.
This is a great move.
We see D5 Efrain six 92.
Now, the example game I'm showing you here from this position is Gasa Camp's game against Samuel Shankland.
It also demonstrates an interesting trap.
Later, quite a deep trap.
So what is going on with this London system?
Well, it sets up this solid pawn triangle.
That's a key characteristic.
And the bishop is outside of the pawn chain.
It's not stuck at home on C one.
We see Ninety-Six in this particular game like Geffray.
So why is reinforcing control over a key central square?
Bishop desex Bishop Geoffrey why it doesn't mind double --'s on this occasion, there is an upside
Black didn't take on Jeoffrey Black household.
If it does take on Jeoffrey a key thing.
Most London systems are what most London system players are aware of is that you get good play of the
takes even though the --'s doubled.
The upside is the rook's.
That's the general thing about chess trade offs.
Structurally, sometimes you can have double pawns, but you could have an active rook as an upside.
So plac didn't even want to do that.
We see black playing just castling.
Yeah, Bishop defraying, we see Queene seven and I-95.
We see here these seven.
If Knight takes E5 then details.
If I have actually your -- bishop at night.
So you're winning material there.
So 97
we have now maintains the seven bishop takes the seven and this looks a little bit harmless.
Is that why it's just exchanging pieces?
But there's a fantastic idea here of the detainees 2095.
There's an absolutely staggering, immense idea which made this particular game example extremely famous,
actually began to Chomsky.
So here's one of the pioneers of the land system, and this is one of his most famous wins with hands.
Can you guess what will replace her if I give you five seconds pause where it's actually rather subtle.
It's it's a very, very advanced tactical combination.
So I think I'm just going to show you now as Bishop six, eight, seven check, it does bring the count
coordinates five check.
The important thing here is we've got an x ray against the queen and actually we can use the pins pawn
now with Ninety-four.
So that pawn is pinned because otherwise we'll just take the queen.
So the night is assisting the queen.
Now, sometimes we see Quincy for
if she thinks that might just take some C5 and takes on D7 with advantage.
So this will be a nice advantage for whites.
So Queen seafoam, we see ninety five.
So White is now threatening checkmate with the White Queen.
So cauterising on eight seven Urbino escape sequence.
Just to put that on the board for you.
If Rook ACA Queen 87 is checkmate so much that maybe you should be well aware, well aware of when the
opponent's castle.
Kingside, if you have a night in queen like that, that's a winning method quite often when there's
no defense of night.
Lefsetz but anyway, we see the rook giving the King some air effort to escape to Queen takes f7 check.
Check King James and then Rudy one we see five Queen f7 check King James and our efore.
There are various ideas afoot here for White.
I don't want to go into too much of the complex details.
Let's just see the game.
Ninety seven was a desperate move though, giving back pace.
The thing is, what can Black actually do here if bishop ice queen if is checkmate.
If I.
Five, six is very dangerous for have might and hair, Brooke, the five and then check and I'm rotates
the seven is strong, for example, this situation, because that was also hitting the queen.
It's just winning loads of material wise.
So we'll look at that again here.
This is a nasty tactic that we just saw.
Rook takes these look at the effect on the whole position.
We're actually hitting the queen and now this is Jack.
So, yeah, all these lines are very bad.
So this is a desperate try.
Queen Elizabeth, be five black is frightening to my only two.
That's Parit Queen takes her to Queen f7 Jack will be one queen takes me to Jack King James check king
Afghans check King seven Queen 67.
Check King MI6.
But now rotate 85.
Check out the King's Essex Queen Essex Check and the game ended here.
If the game continues with King C7 then ninety six Jack and taking on the eight winning Momotaro 1968
is track so.
The London system, as shown in this game, is pretty dangerous if the game continues, if the bishops
C6 six just councils once got a big advantage, an extra rook up.
So.
The London system was kind of made famous by gas, escaped with winds like this especially so essentially
coming back to the opening idea, it's a bishop outside of the -- chain.
It saves you spending months looking at technical opening very in one A4.
So it's even just a day for opening, not only for opening.
It's a system which means that there's less very to know about.
You can play it largely independent of what the opponent does.
But nevertheless, if you want more details about how to handle different things that black and you,
you know, check out my London system course for more detail on that.
So it's a great standby opening and should get you lots of points, especially if you build up your
middle game in and game relative to your opponents in your early stages of learning chess.
Having these systems is not a bad thing.
Bobby Fischer had a system, the American chess legend.
He played the Kings in an attack which will introduce actually shortly.
OK, so but this is the London system, just a very, very important game example.
But the basic principle is the bishop outside of the pawn chain.
And there are certain dynamic, very interesting things that can happen.
As we saw, doubling pawns is not a big deal when you activate Rook's.
And here we saw very, very dynamic attack opportunity that was used by Gostkowski.
OK, that's a much.