Introduction to the Jobava London System 

I HAVE BEEN WAITING FOR THIS, I KNEW ALL THIS WAITING WOULD PAY OFF!! Thanks Stejpan :D

Stejpan, I have been playing chess on and off for 20 years and I have to say your videos are both very informative and inspiring. Thank you for amazing content and I wish you all the best in your journey. I'll be following and cheering for you in your path, wherever you end up.

Just when I wanted to watch something on this opening, I see that the best openings teacher on RU-vid has made a video on it. Thanks Stjepan :)

Been waiting for this forever!!! Thank you!

thank you so much for this honest and straightforward lesson, and for not glamorizing this opening but giving its real strengths and weaknesses. you are an incredible teacher.

Always good to see you, Stejpan. Thanks for this video -- I have been waiting for a London variation.

One of the best introductions to the Jobava London on the internet. I look forward to the other videos. Thank you!

I have been learning this opening for a year now (I am old for a beginner and do not have much time on my hands...) and only come across this video now. What a great intro! I love how clear and to the point your explanations are:) Great English by the way. You have my subscription, sir!

Thank you for this excellent introduction, looking forward to watching the whole series!

just started the video but i just want to say i've been looking forward to this and thank you so much!

Thank you for this playlist! :D The Jobava London has been my "pet opening" for a little while now, and I like playing it :)

Yes!!! I have been hoping you would do this opening.

I absolutely love your videos! Really looking forward to this series! Will there be an English Opening theory series in the future? Thenaks a lot Stjepan!

Thanks for making this. I did some research on this, and bought a course on it. But I was always confused about when to play it, and how to respond to Black's first move. I always like your presentation. So I won't play it again until I've finished your videos 🙂🙂

This video is so nice and well explained. I would really wich an update covering the new discoveries of Bortnyk and Naroditsky. They make the jobava much more dynamic. Thanks for the work you've put in!

Thanks, i was waiting for it, thanks so much

This looks like an interesting deviation from my usual e4, as it can transpose into a lot of e4 openings I'm familiar with, but I also love that the Nb1 knight is paralyzed. I think at my ELO many people will make mistakes with Nc6 or not playing a6. Once again thanks for the well thought out opening intro Stejpan.

Great video Stejpan, very clear - thank you

Odlicna naslovna slika za video! Pozdrav

Wow, a video on the only opening I play as white! Interesting to see your lines on it since I have done a lot of personal preperation myself. Again, thank you for your content, I have gained another 100 elo since I have last posted and now am a 2000. To those out there, 1500-2000 in 3 months is possible even as an adult! (excluding breaks). Hope to see the community get stronger as a whole.

Hello Stjepan, I absolutely love your content! Single-handedly my favorite chess content creator, and I watch a lot of chess content! I noticed some background noise in the video... it's subtle, but there. It doesn't bother me at all, but I thought I'd mention it since it's usually pretty easy to fix (I just run the audio through audacity and use the "Noise Reduction" effect with a sample of background audio). I don't think it really matters, but again would be so easy to fix :) Anyway thanks again for the fantastic content! This was a great video.

Glad to see this covered, I like the Jobava. Too many people play the London system. You should cover the Black Knights Tango too.

Another great video as always Stjepan. Would you consider revisiting e4 doing a video for the vienna game? It seems really popular lately

thank you for this opening series

I like your opening videos! Have you considered sharing some of your blitz games?

Thank u for your awesome work

greatttttt finally. my fav opening :D

Good and helpful, Thank you 🌹

Great videos!

Very nice. I wonder if others would agree that a lot of the concepts introduced in this video are fairly high level, strategical decisions trying to direct the game in directions you expect to feel more comfortable in than your opponent. I wonder though if this treatment of the London is consistent with why many players choose the opening, which is primarily to avoid studying main line theories, just trying to get out of the opening into a middle game with pieces developed without falling into some trap.

Thank you!

Thanks sir.

c5 & e5 is definitely annoying for sure, great coverage of this, best video IMO tthat covers this. Thanks for giving this london player a new variation!

I like this opening, It wins me a lot of game and not a lot of people knows it.

Thank you for a very great video as always. Also I have a question. I know the major 8 replies aganist the queens gambit in popularity are 1. Slav 2. Queens Gambit Declined 3. Queens Gambit Accepted 4. Chigorin 5. Albin Countergambit 6 Baltic Defense 7. Marshall Defense 8. Austrian Defense Thank you for making a series on Slav, QGD, QGA, Albin, & Chigorin I know that the Marshall Defense & Baltic Defense are completely refuted are unsound, as white can be +1.3 out of the opening with correct play. I was wondering if the austrian defense is considered unsound and refuted? Because a top 10 Gm (Shakhriyar Mamedyarov) plays this from time to time, and i have had success playing it.

Молодец Степан. Очень хорошо что ведёшь свое канал на английском языке. Это доступно более широкой аудитории. Я хоть по английски не очень, но ты всё понятно и просто объясняешь.

Thanks so much for this video. I play the standard London, and am looking to broaden my repertoire....slightly! I don't know many e4 openings so I will stick to Jobava, and avoid the transpositions. I don't mind conceding a slight advantage in the opening (my opponents, like me are only rated 1000-1200!)

Thank you

IMO learning the Paulsen french is the best part of playing the chigorin... those lines are full of fascinating positions... even at high level some QGD players will just play 2... e6 there even though they don't play the french. For example, on lichess 12% of 2200+ players play the french against 1. e4, but 16% of 2200+ players play 2... e6 in this position, so I'd say at least a quarter of the players are not french players even at high level, and just wandered into the line... well 25% is a large number, in online chess that's going to substantially increase your winrate. At 2000 rating it's even more brutal 20% of players play 2... e6, so at least 40% of your opponents don't even play the french. If you ever want to mix things up with the veresov it transposes into the Paulsen french at unexpected moments, this throws people off more and is completely brutal when it happens. Trompowsky can also transpose into a paulsen or paulsen-like position in many places. As a 1. d4 player you also get a good weapon against 1... e6, which occurs in ~6% of games. Also... your repertoire is just more focused, so you'll have alot more practice with the french than you would otherwise. Good variation to know for a player who likes these offbeat 1. d4 openings with Bg5 or Nc3. And what about getting a KID player to play a pirc defense - that's a major victory. Again 17% of players play 2... g6 after 1. d4 Nf6 2. Nc3. So here you get to practice against what's usually a pretty rare line, the pirc... your whole repertoire is just more focused and will be alot more solid / refined. I've seen 1900 FIDE players freeze for a minute over the board when I transpose the game into a french.

6:55 against dutch opening, the korchinoi gambit with h3 and g4 seems good, can you please make a video on that, I was inspired on the opening by chess vibes video...

This is my favorite

What ist the old inadian defense? And which ideas are in there

Do you give private lessons? If so, please provide a link. Thanks

It's a great system. I use it regularly, especially against kingside fianchetto setups. I don't know why it doesn't bare the name of the great Alexander Alekhine at all though. Since he was the first big player to play it. He had a bunch of games in it in the 1930s.

This was interesting. I love the Veresov but I've always dismissed looking into this because of the "London" in the name which made me associate it with drier play.

welcome back

Hi Stejpan! I noticed in your introduction that you mentioned you can play the jobava against anything black replies with on move 1, but it is impossible to play such a system against something like the Englund 1...e5, and it got me wondering, are you ever planning on making a video to refute the Englund gambit? Thanks, I love your content!

At 15:38, the Queen is seen to go to E7 (to avoid the attack by white's dark-squared bishop). Why? Would it not make more sense for the Queen to stay OFF the black squares and go to D7 instead?

excellent

14:41 plus the rook hangs, though black goes down an exchange not a full rook because the knight protects it.

First thank you for starting this serie! Also I sent you a message on Instagram because I had a doubt about the Catalan opening video you made. Should I sent it on another place like lichess or you don’t really like to respond messages?

I have been waiting for more opening theory videos for long.

Do you think you'll ever do a series on the richter-veresov attack?

How about Scandinavian versus Joe baba London system how fight that

Hey when are the english opening videos coming ?

What happens in the Jobava when the black bishop plays an early b4? 1 - d4 d5, 2 - Nc3 e6, 3 - Bf4 Bb4.

oh no i only just finished your London system theory playlist

When will we see a big match stjepan vs. Antonio radic??

I think that it more correctly called the Jobava-prie london system; credit being due to the French GM Eric Prie.

SImon give lines for 1..c5 that yes, is not the Jobava but still give white an advantage or equal position.

Nice

Ah yes, the 1.d4 Italian game.

I play this opening a lot, but after Black plays c6 the knight on c3 feels misplaced. It exerts pressure on d5 and e4, but that's about it. At least when the knight goes to d2 it can go to f3. I'm interested to hear what other people think on this.

Can you make a series on the Scotch. I see a lot of it in games but never know how to respond as black!

If there is one thing I dislike in chess, it is blocking my c pawn, instead of freeing it before developing my knight. It's painful to not be able to push it

Hey Stjepan, I was wondering if you could add a video at the end of this series from black's perspective...I've been struggling quite a lot against this system:(

When u want to know a line Me* oh I have to read a book of 300 page Stejpan* hold my pawns 😅😅😅

Thank god at least they can't transpose to the sicilian :)

This is the video

0:46

Been waiting for someone to catch on to the jobava London system because everyone is playing the normal London system and that has been done to death.So many thanks for doing this series as there is not much apart from ginger gm chessable.

Хотелось бы подробнее об авторе

Hi Stjepan, everyone here

GG

Glad you're back! I just play the French against this xD A better move order to get to the French for black is 1...Nf6 2...e6. If they try to go for Bf4 instead of the French then you can just blow everything up Benoni-style and equalize the game in like 10 moves. Or you can go for Bb4 which also is very equal. They ALWAYS go for the French.

Imagine playing Nc3 without c4 in a queen's pawn opening

Surely at Grandmaster level White has no advantage over Black, after all both are Grandmasters.

Soqutbay

1.d4 Nf6 2.Nf3 d5 3.Bf4 g6?

I don't agree with you about an early black ...c6 or ....e6, Bd6 being an easy route for Black equality. For example, the second, Black trades off his good Bishop for Whites dark squared (worse) Bishop. When Black trades off, it may open up the h-file (if White retreats the Bishop to g3, or solidifies e5 if White plays e3. Also, with e6, Black has locked in his light squared Bishop. If you compare Bishops, White is better. After c6, it's got it's pluses like you mention, White is denied tactics on c7, but then again, it's also thematic for Black to play ....c5 to put pressure on d4 too. ...c5 also puts pressure sometimes on a white development of their bishop to d3. That's not happening with ...c6.

At 15:55 you're going to be down 3 pcs for a Queen. I don't see how it is "completely winning."

Thanks brody

Don't worry, I'm very experienced in being in worse positions.

Good video until minute 17.

13 minutes in and you're on move 1.d4 and you've been talking nonstop. zzzzzzzzzzz