Imagine playing 1.d4
Why does everybody play the london system?
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Jul 17, 2020
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benonidoni hat geschrieben:
I had trouble with the London for black because of what the FM said earlier. White is well prepared and black in a blitz isn't. Meaning me. I have been learning the Grunfeld and that seems to help transpose to the Bf4. I think it does anyway. I had tried a queens Indian defense but played that just as bad.
I was watching Hikaru´s stream and he said the Grünfeld is a very tough opening for non-experts to play. It put me off learning it at least. Still not sure what to use against D4 as black. How are you finding the Grünfeld Defence?
Jul 18, 2020
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#25
hvenki wrote:
pinkblueecho wrote:
benonidoni hat geschrieben:
I had trouble with the London for black because of what the FM said earlier. White is well prepared and black in a blitz isn't. Meaning me. I have been learning the Grunfeld and that seems to help transpose to the Bf4. I think it does anyway. I had tried a queens Indian defense but played that just as bad.
I was watching Hikaru´s stream and he said the Grünfeld is a very tough opening for non-experts to play. It put me off learning it at least. Still not sure what to use against D4 as black. How are you finding the Grünfeld Defence?
I dont get it much tbh
Oh! I love the grunfeld
I used to play the Englund Gambit against every d4-player (which was definitely not the best way to go against d4, but whatever!) And often, people would premove 2. Bf4 regardless of what move I played. So I ran into this more than a couple times:
1. d4 e5 2. Bf4?? PxB
Most of the time, they would resign after this, though some did continue after making such a horrendous blunder! I didn’t realize that they were trying to play the London System until the same mistake kept recurring in a bunch of games!
Don’t premove in the opening stage. You might end up missing tactics or hanging pieces.
I learned this when one time, I played this as White:
1. e4 e5 2. Qh5 Nc6 3. Bc4 Nf6?? 4. Qf3?? (Needless to say, I was pretty disappointed in myself for making this premove.)
1. d4 e5 2. Bf4?? PxB
Most of the time, they would resign after this, though some did continue after making such a horrendous blunder! I didn’t realize that they were trying to play the London System until the same mistake kept recurring in a bunch of games!
Don’t premove in the opening stage. You might end up missing tactics or hanging pieces.
I learned this when one time, I played this as White:
1. e4 e5 2. Qh5 Nc6 3. Bc4 Nf6?? 4. Qf3?? (Needless to say, I was pretty disappointed in myself for making this premove.)
I've been learning the London System lately and it seems to be a pretty good opening. Simon William's videos on it are nice
I had trouble with the London for black because of what the FM said earlier. White is well prepared and black in a blitz isn't. Meaning me. I have been learning the Grunfeld and that seems to help transpose to the Bf4. I think it does anyway. I had tried a queens Indian defense but played that just as bad.