London System
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Oct 15, 2026
DashGUEST
I did.
DashGUEST
I bought several courses, you know, in the London and what have you, like Gotham Chess, like most people, right? That was the first-
Kevin ScullHOST
Yeah
DashGUEST
... uh, the entry point.
Kevin ScullHOST
Yeah.
DashGUEST
Um, but, uh, he'll do that for specific openings like this.
DashGUEST
He's done the Sicilian, he's done the London, he's done the Stonewall, he's done-
Kevin ScullHOST
Yeah
MishraHOST
If you look at other guys like Andras Stolt for example.
MishraHOST
He hates London, he thinks it's just limiting one's chess understanding.
MishraHOST
Because that's one of the key counter arguments against this.
MishraHOST
Do you think systems also is a drawback of limiting one's chess, especially for those foundational years, at the early years of one's chess life? If you only play system opening, do you think there are such disadvantages as well? Also, for example, think about the Stonewall Bishop on C1, right? He would probably say, Andras, hey, you know, the guys are learning bad habits to play with a terrible bishop on C1 and things like this, right? Do you have something as that?
MishraHOST
You know, it's funny because I was talking to Fernand Goubet.
MishraHOST
Do you know Fernand Goubet? He's this international master, the god of chess research.
MishraHOST
He's a professor in London.
MishraHOST
I mean, he published so many articles and even books about chess and the psychology of chess, cognitive science behind chess, right? He's really the number one guy to go to when it comes to all the scientific evidence.
Kamil PlichtaGUEST
Which one would you like to choose? If they say no, I would write another email, then another one, then another one.
Kamil PlichtaGUEST
Then I go to London to protest.
Kamil PlichtaGUEST
Not on their
speaker_0HOST
door.
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speaker_0HOST
From your experience, what are the biggest mistakes opening authors are making on Chessable, to your mind, right? It's one of those, I guess.
speaker_0HOST
So
Kamil PlichtaGUEST
first of all, playing Berlin and London, don't do that.
Kamil PlichtaGUEST
Second of all, I think that the most important one and the one that everybody does who is doing the first course is not enough comments, not enough annotations.
speaker_0HOST
Right.
speaker_0HOST
And you're clinging on to your London system and the French, right? Let's talk about the openings a little bit.
Kamryn HellmanGUEST
Yes, I am.
Kamryn HellmanGUEST
But I, I did, I set a goal for myself this year, which was to learn one new opening for white and one new opening for black and to the point where I'm confident enough to play them over the board, which for me means I need to study them a lot because I get very scared to play new things over the board.
Kamryn HellmanGUEST
I like my, my comfort, uh, my comfort food of the London and the French.
Kamryn HellmanGUEST
Um, but yeah, I, I learned the Sicilian and I learned the Queen's Gambit.
Kamryn HellmanGUEST
Uh, so those were, and they're similar enough to the other openings that I play where it wasn't, you know, a huge jump.
Kamryn HellmanGUEST
Uh, but I, I think it's important because the London, especially, I think it's a bad rep just because you get the same kinds of positions over and over again.
Christopher ChabrisGUEST
But how often do we think about the defensive potential of the queen that's all the way on the other side of the board? Or in some opening variations, sometimes...
Christopher ChabrisGUEST
I remember this from some line in the London system.
Christopher ChabrisGUEST
One of the things Black wants to do is play his rook from a8 to a7, and then it's guarding the whole second rank.
Christopher ChabrisGUEST
So it actually contributes to defending squares like g7 and h7, where White might be trying to attack on the kingside.
Christopher ChabrisGUEST
So seeing that for the opponent, imagine, you know, it's hard enough for yourself seeing it for the opponent, you know, is is even harder.
Christopher ChabrisGUEST
So it's easy to sort of like see things that sort of confirm our own position.
Christopher ChabrisGUEST
our own intuition, I think, or especially also our emotional investment, right? Like we really want to attack like on the King side, you know, we learned the London system.
Christopher ChabrisGUEST
We played it for a reason.
Leah BrownGUEST
I'd started with D4.
Leah BrownGUEST
Um, played the London, because it's mindless and easy.
Ben JohnsonHOST
Yeah.
Leah BrownGUEST
Um, and I swapped to E4, and then my rating went like that.
28 MINS LATER
Leah BrownGUEST
... they're just not gonna let you do it.
Ben JohnsonHOST
Yeah.
Leah BrownGUEST
Um, and getting a romantic position out of London is not that easy.
Ben JohnsonHOST
Yeah.
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