Winning with the Modern London System – Part 1 – Nikola Sedlak

Description

At this time the London System is becoming increasingly popular at the top level – even in ‘classical’ tournament games, although it’s much more often seen in rapid.

Currently the top players who use it most often are American Grandmaster Gata Kamsky and Russian Grandmaster Boris Grachev, while other top players from time to time have it in their repertoire, usually using it as a surprise weapon. Between them are Magnus Carlsen, Vladimir Kramnik and others.

Also a great offering to this system came from the French Grandmaster Eric Prie, who plays it in a very original and active manner.

In this book the London System opening is presented using all of the most important games with detailed comments, through which the readers will have the chance to understand the essence of this opening.

Author Grandmaster Nikol Sedlak: will show that this system is fully deserving of your attention for analysing and playing, that it’s unfair neglected in contrast with other openings and also that it gives players myriad interesting positions on the board, free and creative play, with lots of space for further extension and improvement.

Nikola Sedlak was born in Subotica (Serbia) in 1983. His best rating is 2605. Grandmaster since 2003. Winner of many open tournaments. He started to play the London System in 2005 and plays it still with huge success.

Second part of this book