Opening Basics #39: London system 

Always find myself coming back to your channel anytime I need to understand a basic chess issue. Thanks again.

Jim, I know these videos date from a while back, but you have the best opening videos out there.

Thanks for doing these videos. You are very professional and helpful in my efforts to learn chess using the London System.

At 4:52 the stronger move for white is e4, and not Ne5. The move e4 produces greater pressure in the center, and it prepares white's advance of the e4 pawn to e5, which is crucial in the London system.

Fabulous mate at the end. Glad I watched the whole video.

Starts at 2:18.

Thanks Jimbo!

It’s so cool that Stanley Kubrick came back to teach us a little chess.

Thank you. I always enjoy your tutorials.

Hello budy, how are you? First of all I would like to say which fantastic channel you have watched some of your classes and it is fantastic. I would like to ask you which defense you recommend playing against the london system, is there any solid defense that you recommend me?

You have very good content keep up

Steve Buscemi?

why doesn't the bishop sacrifice work at minute 32?

Here is the game Kamsky-Bhat 2014 - www.chessbites.com/Games.aspx?d=kLrLCkpor

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Isn't Onashuk's defense how black defends against the Torre Attack?

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Taktik dan teknik francis opening mister.

Ok

How do you draw lines on the board on ChessBase?

at 35:49 how white wins tnx

Jim I became mildly enamoured of the London System after it being shouted from the rooftops by Gotham Chess (the guy whose tutorial system I bought-remorse) and a number of others, so I set about trying to see how useful it could be against an eternally remote-less foe, Stockfish Level 4. Now at the best of times I'm able to beat the computer *sometimes* on Level 2, so for me, Level 4 is just a joke; I figure if I just hammer out whatever trick(s) I've just learned in someone's tutorial I can at least lose with face; the computer doesn't give a shit who I am and I'll never get a "Nya-nya-na-naaa-na" from her when I lose, so I generally just go to a point in the game where it's quite hopeless, resign, and start over. And over. And over. So in general, I've found that however many times I play this system, she shuts me down barely by the time I've got the whole thing set up, mainly by advancing her pawns in a sort of wall-type structure, just shoving it up against my pieces and forcing me back, alway, *always* on the defence. Thus (with links and brief comment about each. This is just four random games from about fifty, all of which I lost): lichess.org/me4gq6Pv >>Quick takeover by queen lichess.org/nQ7Mk8Om >> Quick takeover by knight acrobatics lichess.org/0pyzqfrT >> Just plain demolished lichess.org/6F9lt4lb >> Quick shutdown by bishop Please let me know what I'm doing wrong. Thanks! --Nick

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sorry i mean at 21:08