personally i like to commit bishop to fNUMBER_TOKEN right away because i don't really know if my knight is going to go here all that much there might be some move orders where it does not now what i'm going to show you is a typical position that you are after in the london then we are going to show black's most challenging responses to the london and i'm going to kind of tell you a little bit about how to study this cool wonderful so let's say the players just develop you're going to play eNUMBER_TOKEN completing one side of what we call a pyramid on this over here and then the pyramid will be complete like this you want to buy illuminati fans uh by all means uh you know rejoice so the other battle is going to be for the eNUMBER_TOKEN and eNUMBER_TOKEN squares you already see that we're controlling this score quite well and as we continue to develop our pieces the eNUMBER_TOKEN square is very much up for grabs in my hypothetical example black is attacking us with a flank pawn cNUMBER_TOKEN that is the most challenging response to the london system because it immediately creates queen side play with the queen and potentially the knight because our bishop has abandoned the queen side but stick with me for a second the exact moves are not ultra important i'm more so getting to the critical position of our opening the bishop on dNUMBER_TOKEN the light squared bishop stands inside of the pyramid okay targeting the enemy king if the king ever goes short castle also the bishop is just very safe here and the reason we've played this side of the pyramid is so that if the opponent were to play something like cNUMBER_TOKEN then we can just slide back so our position actually very much makes sense we also repel the enemy forces on this side of the board with our pawns that's why all of this opening kind of makes sense it all ties together and if we sufficiently control this square on eNUMBER_TOKEN with the bishop and the knight and we sufficiently control this square on eNUMBER_TOKEN with the pawn the bishop and the knight black's counter play is sort of killed in the center and the game plan of the london is to yes you can just castle and that's fine but the central game plan i like to employ is mobilizing directly into the middle okay which opens up our queen to then potentially rotate through that available square and target that king side with the bishop right the queen and the bishop together and if the knight were to take us now by the way i just hope we're clear we're not taking this this is just to plant and then create our attack but if we are to be taken we are going to remove this knight from the defense of the king bring in our pieces and sometimes we won't castle at all yes you can but you can also just go directly after this attack this is the perfect kind of london in a nutshell but you've only been watching this video for about four minutes you are not yet ready to do it as much as you want to is how it usually works on youtube you go and play it it doesn't work you come back you're like okay there's a lot of things we needed to go through to get to this position and openings are all about variation right sometimes you might castle short sometimes you might cast along in this case we didn't do that right now a lot of things are at play here
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