Opening Bomb Diary #23: A New Idea against the London

With the new engines, it's recently gotten much easier to prepare an equal or playable position with black, and conversely much harder to prove anything with white. So, I've recently taken my main white repertoire into the shop for repairs, and chose the London system as my temporary "replacement", like a rental car. A boring, reliable, clunky, robust rental car.

At my core, I really don't like the London system, but I can't deny that it's effective as a "vacation day" opening. Memorizing the lines is optional (to a certain point), and it keeps the game alive enough to beat lower-rated players while being solid enough to withstand sharp higher-rated players.

But, there's like 20 different ways black can equalize against it. Here's one of the weirdest ways I recently found:

Hope you enjoyed the idea. I really don't like crossing over to the dark side and playing the London, but the energy it takes to squeeze water out of a stone in the mainlines is much more than the energy it takes to prep the London. Still, I believe in playing mainlines as white, more on those later!