London system scrubs

Jacob Aagaard calls the London: "The Old Man's Bad Habit. Not dangerous and not very interesting."

from Meeting 1d4

Chess is not all about the opening. And if it was just that, you would not be here moaning about bad London players who put you off book and stole your victory.

It's stunning how stupid people are. If you play chess in 2016, you're going to have to learn a lot of openings and a lot of variations. So relying on some opening to cut this down to a minimum? Objectively makes you an inferior player. Now what do these London System players do? Naturally, talk trash and insult people to cover up for their deficiencies and inadequacies as theoreticians.

Go check any statistical database and you will see that people win less often when playing the London System, yet the way you guys tell it you're just beaing all the black players because you're so strategically superior blah blah blah boooshat!

I love to crush London System players, all I say is Freeeeelo.. I often look at their match history before I make the first move so I know how fast I will crush them depending on their opening. London players take around 2 minutes which is useful knowledge.

Please start a forum for us: How to crush London System scrubs!

We should all band together and beat this opening out of existence.

Sure go play the London System but...

1. Be prepared to play alot of boring games
2. and get ready to fight for equality with White pieces from move 3.

What do you play against the London System?

Please, don't be ridiculous: just look at the topic title before acting as a victim advocate ("London system scrub").

Plus, once again, I'm not a London player.

Of course a lot of weak players chooses to play systems. Still, if you have trouble against it, it just mean your opponent has a better understanding of what is playing on the board.

At "club level", I have seen 1900-2000 players who took the London (or others) to put their opponent off book, to launch an attack on the King/ or go for an endgame, because they were more likely to have the upper end in these fields in "unknown" positions (at least for their opponent).

At Grandmaster level, it's (rarely) a winning choice since you don't get that title by having lack of skills in strategy, defense or endgame. And most of 2000+ players have prepared something against it that kill their joy of playing it.

I did. So you should instead of grumbling because you cannot reach your favorite variation of the semi-slave or the KID. Since you have an opponent, chess is also (mostly) about being able to play stuffs you don't want. It's your job to drive him in something he does not like.

Just like London players do with you.

Well I could open a thread on how to crush this opening but that would mess up the chess lifes of many London System players and ruin the London System industry. Some London System chess authors might have to sleep under the bridge if I do that. Life is like chess, always think ahead...

Most London players I know like closed centers and wing manoeuvers (the ones they crave for in their mainline).

So I came up with something to blow up the center which is kind of "Nope" to the London:

An idea like another. I think you can also reach it when you are a 1...d5 player.

PS: I'm definitely not a London player, I'm not the one moaning here and that's exactly because you are that I (respectfully) say that your attitude against them is ridiculous. ;)