A Book against London System
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ilusmte
Apr 21, 2018
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#1
"Fighting the London System" by famous Bulgarian chess player Kiril Georgiev is probably first ever book written solely on the topic of playing against London System.There's eight different lines as per a player's own choice or style of play. I mean a system for King's Indian players a system for Queen's Gambit Declined players and so on. You can download the book from Scribd. Here's the link
Apr 21, 2018
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#2
https://www.scribd.com/document/370448159/Georgiev-Kiril-Fighting-the-London-System
Disclaimer: I am not a 2600 level player, so I will limit my assessment of the quality of the analysis except for large discrepancies with the engine.
Georgiev’s goals are to give Black higher chances for the win with the use of:
a) unbalanced lines; and
b) lines that are not in recent London books written for the White side (by Sedlak and Romero)
The Chess Stars format is interesting, with its section on Main Ideas, Step by Step (basically the opening repertoire in the more standard analytical layout), and Annotated Games... it is your choice if you like that method of presenting a repertoire as opposed to the more standard linear analytical layout of something like Quality Chess’ Grandmaster Repertoire series.
Georgiev gives repertoires for Black with
a) an early ...g6 (ch.1-3)
b) an early ...e6 with ...b6 (ch.4)
c) an early ...e6 with ...c5 (ch.5)
d) an early ...c5, depending on what Black prefers (ch.6)
Also covers the “classical” London (ch.7) and Benoni (ch.8)
On a rare occasion, I found a line of Georgiev’s that the engine evaluates way in favor of White, but these rare instance are probably due to accidental omissions of a move in his chosen line when I compare with the engine’s line. Otherwise, his main lines are always even in the evaluation, and almost always one of the top 2-3 moves (once you are in the London, after move 4, for instance)... No miracles for either side, although it seems that authors for many opening books, including both sides of the London, enjoy making comments that the other side is in trouble after a number of their select lines (usually because the other player will be unfamiliar with your line).
The other modern book that gives a repertoire against the London is Avrukh’s Beating 1.d4 Sidelines (Quality Chess). A few lines overlap with Georgiev’s, but most do not. Avrukh’s approach is supposedly more solid, but he also claims he gives line that are more ambitious rather than dead drawn.
Georgiev’s goals are to give Black higher chances for the win with the use of:
a) unbalanced lines; and
b) lines that are not in recent London books written for the White side (by Sedlak and Romero)
The Chess Stars format is interesting, with its section on Main Ideas, Step by Step (basically the opening repertoire in the more standard analytical layout), and Annotated Games... it is your choice if you like that method of presenting a repertoire as opposed to the more standard linear analytical layout of something like Quality Chess’ Grandmaster Repertoire series.
Georgiev gives repertoires for Black with
a) an early ...g6 (ch.1-3)
b) an early ...e6 with ...b6 (ch.4)
c) an early ...e6 with ...c5 (ch.5)
d) an early ...c5, depending on what Black prefers (ch.6)
Also covers the “classical” London (ch.7) and Benoni (ch.8)
On a rare occasion, I found a line of Georgiev’s that the engine evaluates way in favor of White, but these rare instance are probably due to accidental omissions of a move in his chosen line when I compare with the engine’s line. Otherwise, his main lines are always even in the evaluation, and almost always one of the top 2-3 moves (once you are in the London, after move 4, for instance)... No miracles for either side, although it seems that authors for many opening books, including both sides of the London, enjoy making comments that the other side is in trouble after a number of their select lines (usually because the other player will be unfamiliar with your line).
The other modern book that gives a repertoire against the London is Avrukh’s Beating 1.d4 Sidelines (Quality Chess). A few lines overlap with Georgiev’s, but most do not. Avrukh’s approach is supposedly more solid, but he also claims he gives line that are more ambitious rather than dead drawn.
Apr 22, 2018
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#5
The London System is a personal favorite for
me, Indian Game London System, Queens Pawn Opening London Sustem, or just regular London System, they are really good. Taking the Center with extreme back up and plenty of gambits and countergambits, that is my game.
Apr 22, 2018
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#7
Just look at GM games. The defuse white's typical attack with few simple moves. These lines work quite well against weak players because they don't stop playing moves on autopilot because they can't think of a different plan.
There are some games where black eventually plays f6 (I think Wesley So played like this) and suddenly there is no knight on e5 to help the kingsside attack and even e5 is coming from black.
Apr 23, 2018
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#9
What about a Black system such as the Old Indian against the London System?!
Apr 23, 2018
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#10
Klauer wrote:
The London is solid. So you can't win automatically with black. The problem is, as with all solid systems, to get a game. Georgiev offers some lines and he has experience as white and black player. I have the book, started to use it and I am content with it.
About more: Read the post of dannyhume here and search for some reviews in the web. Here at chess.com I read https://www.chess.com/blog/IndreRe and found some useful information.
The same can be said about white's position. White doesn't win automatically.
Apr 23, 2018
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#12
I prefer complications and positional battles over the chess board....and so I love theory. Modern chess(off course not the Modern School) is quite different from that..
ilusmte wrote:
"Fighting the London System" by famous Bulgarian chess player Kiril Georgiev is probably first ever book written solely on the topic of playing against London System.There's eight different lines as per a player's own choice or style of play. I mean a system for King's Indian players a system for Queen's Gambit Declined players and so on. You can download the book from Scribd. Here's the link
I actually had not heard of this GM. What made him famous?
Apr 23, 2018
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#14
Kiril Dimitrov Georgiev (Bulgarian: Кирил Димитров Георгиев; born 28 November 1965 in Petrich) is a Bulgarian chessgrandmaster and six-time national champion.
Kiril Georgiev first caught the eye of the chess world in 1983, when he became the World Junior Champion with an unusually strong score of 11½ out of 13. This result automatically gave him the International Master title. Two years later, FIDE awarded him the International Grandmaster title.
In the process of becoming the Bulgarian Champion of 1984 (shared), 1986 and 1989, he rapidly became recognised as Bulgaria's number one player, taking over from Ivan Radulov and eventually giving way to Veselin Topalov. He has represented his country at the Chess Olympiad many times, playing on either board 1 or 2. Exceptionally, in 2002 he played for Macedonia, while he was temporarily resident there.
At the 1988 World Blitz Championship in Saint John, Canada, Kiril Georgiev finished third after eliminating world champion Garry Kasparov (3 - 1) in the quarterfinal. In the semifinal he lost to Rafael Vaganian (3.5 - 4.5). The tournament was eventually won byMikhail Tal.
His record in international competition has been remarkable, considering that he has never quite reached supergrandmaster status (Elo 2700 or above). He was a winner atSarajevo 1986 (and would meet board boyIvan Sokolov there again, some 15 years later), San Bernardino 1988, Elenite (Burgas) 1992 (ahead of Sokolov, Topalov, Josif Dorfman, Yuri Razuvayev and Vassilios Kotronias) and the 1993 Budapest Zonal (ahead of Judit Polgár and Ľubomír Ftáčnik). He repeated his Elenite success in 1995 (with Topalov, ahead of Nigel Short, Boris Gulkoand Sergey Dolmatov) and won at Belgrade2000 (ahead of Alexander Beliavsky and Ulf Andersson).
Since 2000, his achievements have been no less impressive. First at Sarajevo 2001 (his first Category 16 tournament win - ahead of Topalov, Ilya Smirin, Alexei Dreev and Ivan Sokolov) and first at Bad Worishofen 2002. AtGibraltar Chess Festival, he was joint winner (with Levon Aronian, Zahar Efimenko, Alexei Shirov and Emil Sutovsky) in 2005 and the outright winner in 2006 (ahead of Short, Sutovsky, Shirov, Vladimir Akopian and Viktor Bologan) with an 8½/10 score. This was also the year that he won a bronze medal at theEuropean Individual Chess Championship(behind Zdenko Kozul and Vassily Ivanchuk). At the Aeroflot Open in Moscow, he finished only a half point off the lead.
Accordingly, these results have caused his Elo rating to advance rapidly during 2005 and 2006, reaching 2680 in July 2006, and placing him at number 26 in the (FIDE) World's 100 top players.
Georgiev has also participated in the World Chess Championship cycle. In 1990, he qualified for the Interzonal Tournament inManila and placed a creditable 14th out of 64, surpassing expectation and losing only to Alexei Dreev. At Groningen in 1997, he lost in round 4 to Loek van Wely. In December 2009, he tied for 1st-4th with Georg Meier, Julio Granda and Viktor Láznička in the 19th Magistral Pamplona Tournament. In 2010, he came third at the World Chess Open inLeón. In 2011 he won the 29th Andorra Open.
In 2009, he broke the world record for the most simultaneous chess games played: 360 games in just over 14 hours. He won 280, drew 74 and lost 6 for a total score of 88%. A score of at least 80% was required for the record to be accepted.
He won the Bulgarian championship again for three consecutive years, in 2013, 2014 and 2015.
Wow. This fellow Georgiev is a really a strong player. Beating my favorite player Kasparov in a Blitz march is really impressive along with all his other accomplishents.
Ntirlis's repertoire on 1.d4 as black is quite effective.
Against London system especially.