Tricked into London main line | Aronian - Ganguly | World rapid chess championship

Levon Aronian plays against one of the Indian leaders GM Ganguly. Levon with early Nf3 checks what his opponent thinks of playing and switches to infamous London System, where uses ideas from Queen's gambit with Black pieces.
2019 King Salman World Rapid & Blitz Championships
Moscow, 2019
Aronian, Levon (2775)
Ganguly, Surya Shekhar (2633)
Event: World Rapid 2019
Site: Moscow RUS Date: 12/28/2019
Round: 15.8 Score: 1-0
ECO: D02 Queen's bishop game
1.Nf3 d5 2.d4 Nf6 3.Bf4 c5 4.e3 Nc6 5.Nbd2 e6 6.c3 cxd4 7.exd4 Nh5 8.Be3 Bd6 9.Bd3 Nf4 10.Bxf4 Bxf4 11.h4 Bd7 12.g3 Bd6 13.Nf1 Rb8 14.Ne3 b5 15.b4 Qc7 16.Rc1 h6 17.Nd2 a5 18.a3 a4 19.f4 Ne7 20.Nf3 f6 21.Qe2 O-O 22.O-O e5 23.fxe5 fxe5 24.dxe5 Bxe5 25.Nxd5 Bd4+ 26.Kg2 Nxd5 27.cxd4 Qd6 28.Ne5 Nf6 29.Rf4 Bc8 30.Kh2 g5 31.Rc6 Qe7 32.Rf1 Bb7 33.Qa2+ Kg7 34.Qe6 Rbe8 35.Qxe7+ Rxe7 36.Rb6 Rc7 37.Kg1 Ba8 38.Rxb5 Rc3 39.Ra5 Be4 40.Ra7+ Kg8 41.Rxf6 Rxf6 42.Bxe4 Rxg3+ 43.Kh2 gxh4 44.Bh7+ Kh8 45.Ng6+ Rfxg6 46.Bxg6 1-0
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The London System is a great chess opening for beginning chess players. It quickly develops the dark square bishop which is a very underutilized minor piece for white.
The opening doesn’t start out aggressive, and many times ends in a closed game, but it gives white lots of options and is very useful is stopping black from any counterattack.
The London System is extremely good against the King’s Indian Defense systems as black becomes cramped and is left with little room to do anything.
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