London System Club of Lichess
Team leaders: 
This is a club for all the lichess members who play the London System/London Opening (in any preferred move order), used to play it, or are just a fan who enjoys the ideas and/or move orders in the opening.
It may not be as objectively strong as the Queen's Gambit, but the London doesn't have to always be a completely boring, dumb, passive opening - we can make it a pretty good, interesting, aggressive one! Give it a try!
Feel free to discuss all kinds of London System related ideas in the forums. Just please be respectful and don't personally insult or attack anyone just because of their preferred openings! Thank you! :)
Resources:
- GingerGM's intro video on the London https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LDU83nDqCUc
- Mainline Analysis - Chessfactor IM Andrey Ostrovskiy https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fsB2cNjFeg4
- Please suggest other resources (articles, videos, etc)! Preferably if it's in one long group/playlist or something like that
#LondonSystem
#TheLondon
#LondonForTheWin
Timeline:
Apr 6th 2018 - Team created by @FunnyAnimatorJimTV
Apr 18th 2018 - Team reaches 100 members!
May 27th 2018 - 300 members!
Aug 18th 2018 - 500 members! GM @penguingim1 joins team!
Feb 16th 2019 - 1 MILLION TOURNAMENT POINTS!!!
Aug 1st 2019 - TEAM REACHES 1,000 MEMBERS!!!
May 10th 2021 - 2,000 Members!
Apr 5th 2022 - New Resource: Playlist by IM @Banzeaus
2024 - Considering Changing Ownership of Team
Tournaments
| VM Team Battle5+5 • Rapid • Rated • 45m | Battle of 8 teams | 2 | |
| Koblencs Team Battle10+0 • Rapid • Casual • 50m | Battle of 8 teams | 8 |
Forum
https://lichess.org/study/FTO2ph9s
Planting the knight on e5 is basic London.
ive found that the idea of pushing the e pawn asap in the middle game very important (while opposite side castling, as usual in the London) but especially when black castles kingside. but i noticed that blockin…
What you think is the best video course for the London System?
For instance, I had a few thoughts: 1. We could try sharing our most interesting London System games with each other. We could analyze the games and figure out where things went wrong and where we played correc…
FAJT said in the chat: To be honest, I haven't done a whole lot for the good of this team in the last few years. I'm not sure what to do. I think that dm I sent a few weeks ago was good and those videos probabl…