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The beauty of the Black London System · IM Petran – Tomic, Road to GM, Game 404

July 19, 2025 NHaselton Uncategorized

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The London System can be played with black too! Here’s a game in the Reversed London in which I faced an IM.
Learn the Reversed London here: https://youtu.be/aiQIrbujvkI
Here’s a great tool for learning openings: https://chessbook.com/hanging-pawns
More than 20 full repertoire PGNs, including 1.e4, 1.d4, Sicilian, English, Caro-Kann and more available here: https://www.patreon.com/c/hangingpawns/shop

The Black London System is possible against many openings and setups such as:
– Reti with b3
– English that transposes to a Reti
– King’s Indian Attack
– Reverse Dutch
– Reverse Queen’s Indian
– London System
– Nimzo-Larsen

The London System as part of your repertoire with black is best paired (in my opinion) with the Semi-Slav against d4, and the Caro-Kann against e4. The reason being that you’ll basically always play the same pawn structure, making the plans, ideas and patterns similar in all three.

IM Petran P. (2148) – Tomic S. (1986)
Reversed London
Pula Open, Rd.6
June 20th 2025

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