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The London System is an opening system in chess where White opens with 1.d4 and develops the dark-squared bishop to f4, then supports the d4-pawn with pawns on e3 and c3. The other bishop is developed to d3 (or occasionally e2) and the knights typically to f3 and d2.
Within the London System, the Poisoned Pawn Variation follows after: 1.d4 d5 2.Nf3 Nf6 3.Bf4 c5 4.e3 Qb6 5.Nc3 Qxb2?! [4] Black is lost after 6.Nb5 Na6 7.a3 Bf5 8.dxc5 Bxc2 9.Qc1 Qxc1+ 10.Rxc1 and the c-pawn is too strong.
London System, a set of related chess openings characterised by 1.d4 followed by an early Bf4, ... Yerevan System of the Sicilian Defence – 1.e4 c5 2.Nf3 a6 3.Nc3;
The East Indian Defence is a chess opening characterised by the moves: 1. d4 Nf6 2. Nf3 g6 [2] [1] ... 3.Bf4, the London System; 3.Nc3, the Barry Attack [3]
The Richter–Veresov Attack, Colle System, Stonewall Attack, Torre Attack, London System, and Blackmar–Diemer Gambit are classified as Queen's Pawn Games because White plays d4 but not c4. The Richter–Veresov is rarely played at the top levels of chess. The Colle and London are both systems, rather than specific opening variations. White ...
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Nimzowitsch-Larsen Attack vs. London System One independent option available to Black is to play a reversed kind of London System with d5, Bf5, Nf6, e6, c6, etc. In this case White may change tack and play a double fianchetto , forcing through e2–e4 (via d3, Nd2 and Bg2) and disrupting Black's solid development .
The London System opening 1.d4 d5 2.Bf4 is sometimes called the Mason Variation in his honour; [9] he played it several times from the 1880s. The variation of the King's Gambit 1.e4 e5 2.f4 exf4 3.Nc3 (allowing 3...Qh4+) is sometimes called the Mason Gambit or Keres Gambit, although Mason lost the only game he played with it (against Samuel ...