For all the London System haters, keep that in mind.

Great game today by Ding and surprisingly an exciting world championship!

That was the very first opening I learned. <3

Me too! And 1000 elo later, I still play it about 50% of the time as white.

I play the queen's gambit now, but also the London, especially in Blitz. I am currently learning E4 openings.

I guess that means that chess has been solved.

Yes, now we have no need for other openings. As the London has been established as the best opening from that fateful Ding-Nepo game, all chess games will now be London. All other openings will now die out.

The solution to chess is simple: White plays the London and wins.

Everyone pack up and go home.

Busting the London System is a very easy way to get a good game against the london so if you need to learn some tips check out the fidio

I always start with d4 and then Nf3 before committing to the London System. More flexible. Then, in the event of something like d6 or even g6 you can play better lines than the London. If black goes for d5, then it becomes personal preference on playing the Queen's gambit Zukertort variation or the London System among other options.

Was that the only London ever played in a world championship match?

Yep

As white, I play London system all the time (D4 forever <3). Thanks to GMs discover tricks for progress and keep it viable... London systeme have serious weakness. But make a beautifull game when opponent find some counter-play ! 100% is easy when scoring in 1 game ... Want to see more !!! :D

"all the time" when my opponent not doing a WTF opening *

As white, I like to play the English opening instead of the London system.

I began to play the London because it seems relatively simple for a player of my level and also because there seem to be a lot of players here who dislike playing against it because it is "boring."

london players are gay

edit: whoever downvotes this is gay

While simple at the base level, it's a very positional opening. White has many ways to great a positional advantage and it's deeper the higher you go.

I do agree though, I like playing it sometimes just because it annoys people. The players who think it's "boring" and usually the ones that haven't studied it deeply enough to create any trouble in the opening. This creates an easy, fast opening phase with the white player having the positional knowledge already thought out and black just aimlessly making moves that seem "natural" but often create small weaknesses to exploit later.

if you were to look at my recent londons are black, they are just all draws

literally the best options for black is this

and in the end its just a draw if nobody messes up that bad

i mean if you want a high accuracy farm then go ahead be my guest and play the london,

For some reason I had thought the famous Spassky vs Petrosian game where black took on e5, castled long, and then threw pawns at white was in a London. But I checked, and it was a Torre where white's bishop just ended up on f4 pretty quickly.

Not if black knows what they are doing and it's really not that difficult to play from the black side. It's not that deep of an opening, unless one player really wants to force the issue.