Grünfeld Defence
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Oct 20, 2026
Ben JohnsonHOST
Yeah.
John HartmannGUEST
Right? So if I'm doing opening prep, it's, it's one thing to sort of, you know, know what the top players are playing in the Grunfeld, but I'm not playing the top players.
John HartmannGUEST
[laughs]
Ben JohnsonHOST
Right.
Kamil PlichtaGUEST
Naidorf has, I think, 51% of draws.
Kamil PlichtaGUEST
Grunfeld also has a ton of draws.
Kamil PlichtaGUEST
Grunfeld is one of the most drawish openings in chess.
Kamil PlichtaGUEST
Because
speaker_0HOST
there are so
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Kamil PlichtaGUEST
20 years ago, when I played against somebody...
Kamil PlichtaGUEST
Now when you speak about somebody, you're going to say that, okay, he is aggressive, he likes to play this type of positions.
Kamil PlichtaGUEST
20 years ago it was like, this guy is a Grunfeld player, this guy is a Neidorf player.
JesseHOST
turning back yeah
Aman HambletonGUEST
exactly so that's another branch of London and But then within the people that still recommend d4, bishop f4, usually what will happen is against the Fianchetto line specifically, King's Indian, Grunfeld, knight c3 will make an appearance.
Aman HambletonGUEST
So it's not that they play the Jobaba London, but that knight c3 is the recommendation against that.
Aman HambletonGUEST
And I think that's really where it all separates is there's so many Londons out there, but There's absolutely none that treat the entire opening as a system, which is what I'm doing.