9 London System Traps

9 Traps in the London System most of which Grandmasters have fallen for and which could win you games straight out of the opening.

The London is a positional opening. It's reputation is justly earned. It can, however, lead to 10-20 move wins if black is not careful and doesn't know what he's doing. There are numerous traps and tricks in the London which are not beginner level, and which even very strong master and grandmaster level players would and have missed in tournament games.

I have tried to compile a list of such, hard to see, subtle, but deadly traps. I hope it helps!

00:00 Intro
00:29 Three Greek Gift traps in b6 variations
09:35 "Carlsen's" Bb5 trap
14:10 Kamsky's Greek Gift
17:18 Bb5 Qa4 trap
21:10 The "Jobava" trap
24:00 A trap for black
25:26 The f7 trap

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