#london system

[sureves22]

London system is the new main line of chess.

#chess #london system #chessmemes

[minecraft-llama]

Chess Blog Day #32 - The London System

The London System is characterized by the moves 1.d4 d5 2.Bf4.

We've covered two e4 openings so far, so it's time to look at a d4 opening.

The London system is called a "system" because unlike most openings which have a lot of variations to memorise and precise move orders, in the London you can do the same setup against most responses. This makes it solid and ideal for beginners.

Your opponent doesn't have to play 1...d5 in order for you to play a London.

Your opponent is likely to play d5 at some point anyway. When the same opening position is reached via a different move order this is called a "transposition".

Typically you also should play d4, Nf3, e3, Bd3, Nbd2 and c3 in some order and end up with the following setup:

Because white tends to always play the same moves and it's very solid, many people criticise the London for being boring. It's even a bit of a meme in the chess community.

However, the London system has a 100% win rate in world championship matches. The current world champion, Ding Liren, used to to equalise in game six after being down 3-2. That's the only time the London has been played in a world championship match, but still.

Let's take a look at some more d4 openings.

Tomorrow: The Queen's gambit. (Yes, the opening the hit Netflix show is named after.)

#chess #board game #opening #openings #strategy #london system #london #system #transposition

[the-insouciant-scientist]

Okay I'm very curious now about people's fallen london ocs and memory loss/amnesia because there are more characters with gaps in their past than I initially expected to see, so! Answer for your main oc, probably, unless you have an alt you'd prefer to answer for.

Also, feel free to specify in the tags the cause if you know it! Whether it be dissociative, irrigo-based, etc, I'd love to hear about it. :-)

#fallen london #fallen london ocs #fl #the scientist scribbles #eg: harper is a dissociative system who can't remember pretty much anything before landing in jail #and continues to have some mild day-to-day memory loss too depending on what's happening/who's fronting

[searchsystem]

Systems Studio / Walter Knoll / Unfeasible / Poster / 2015

#systems studio #walter knoll london #unfeasible #poster #2015 #typography

[philcoulsonismyhero]

There's a lot of lines in Amongst Our Weapons that make me want to wave my arms around and yell incoherently about Peter and Nightingale and how far they've come and how much they mean to each other, but right now the one I want to yell about the most is this one from right at the end:

Image text: 'The wider the base, the greater the stability of the building,' said Nightingale. 'You taught me that.'

Because, like. Peter wanted to be an architect. The thing he always wanted to do was to build things. And look what he's built! He hasn't just rebuilt the Folly as it was, he's built something modern and completely new out of its constituent parts and he's done it by caring about people and being interested in how things work and by what Beverly jokingly calls 'compulsive networking'.

And everything he's done for the Folly, he's done for Nightingale on a personal level too.

Nightingale was So isolated when Peter first met him. His police colleagues didn't want much to do with him, his social circle seemed to consist of Molly and Dr Walid and not much more, he was completely out of touch with the modern world. And to his credit, he was the one who decided to take on an apprentice, but that was pretty much all he was planning to do. Train up a replacement for himself in case he got killed, pass on the Forms and Wisdoms properly, keep the status quo going.

But he chose Peter, and suddenly he's got an apprentice who wants to study the science behind magic and modernise the Folly's record keeping and work out better ways to liaise with other police and fundamentally Make Changes. Nightingale ends up with all these connections through Peter, to Beverley and the other Thames girls, to Lesley, to Abigail, eventually to the rest of Peter's family, to other police like Guleed and Stephanopoulos and unfortunately for him Seawoll... He has people he can rely on, and who choose to rely on him, and not just for magic -I especially love how Peter's mum eventually starts using him to babysit Peter's dad, and the fact that he helps Abigail's family with her brother. He's not alone anymore, and he goes from just living to genuinely thriving.

And it's all down to Peter, and what the two of them have built together. In fact, they've built something so significant that in a few years Nightingale isn't going to be necessary anymore. He's been Britain's Last Official Wizard for seventy years, all the weight of that tradition resting on his shoulders alone, and in a handful of years Peter has helped him to build something that'll be able to take the weight instead if he wants it to. There are people who can help do everything he's been doing alone and more, so finally he can think about what he actually wants for himself. (And don't even get me started on his arc re: teaching and discovering that it's what he wants to do for the rest of his life, I Will start yelling even more.)

And it's Peter who's taught him to let other people take the weight. That you can build something stable and lasting if you're willing to share the load. The wider the base, the greater the stability of the building.

Not bad for a wannabe architect who can't draw, huh?

#rivers of london #peter grant #thomas nightingale #amongst our weapons #once again I am deeply emotionally compromised by that book and those two #and like. the fact that peter's architecture thing comes off as just a fun character quirk #but then you think about it and it's kind of Fundamental to the themes of the whole series #which is about Building #building connections building systems building Better Things #and our protagonist is a guy who couldn't be an architect #and his mentor is a guy who slowly realises just how much he wants to be a teacher #Waving My Arms Around And Yelling #wizard nonsense tag

[vse-kar-vem]

together in every universe. or something

#bojan cvjetićanin #kris guštin #joker out #im neglecting schoolwork to draw this but that seems like the norm at this point #hoping if i get it all out of my system now i'll be normal during exam szn (in like. a week 😨) #<<sorry if i keep talking about school btw (semi age reveal ahead) gcses are fucking killing me uuaghhgshhahhhaj #i actually quite like this since i started drawing on a whim this afternoon and its only ten now #i dont even mind the lineart (DONT LOOK AT BOJANS HAND OR ILL JUMP OUT A WINDOW) #only a one storey one tho 💗💗💗 can't die without seeing bokris irl <<pipe dream as im too embarrassed to go to a concert #NO because bumping into jo in london would be my worst fucking nightmare 😭😭😭 #what do i even fucking say 'hey are you jan from jo--' NO id combust on the spot #and what if im bothering them uknow 😭😭 idk but i used to live in an asian city where none of my idols from the west would ever visit #(except safiya love you safiya) so keeping the real life person and fictiinalized versions apart in my brain and/or at arms length was easy #but now that i live in the uk and the chances of seeing them irl are non-zero? and presented with the chance to #actively seek them out and you know go to a concert #im just too scared and awkward to do it #maybe i'll bully my friend into going with me #i feel safer revealing age more in the fucking depths of these tags but another thing that makes me feel awkward about going is age #like ik lots of jo fans are younger than me and there's no shame at all in bringing your parents i just feel so embarrassed?? to??? #like i'd rather go with my friends #but that would require at least us riding the train alone and i am a small east asian girl who never looks up from the floor ever #sooooo #not happening any time soon #maybe next yr?? but probably not #unless i suddenly get a lot more independant and cool #i doubt anyone's read this much of my tags but if you have 😭😭 hope you like the art i guess #at the time of me writing i want to draw more but i'll see #(you will know since it will have been posted) #a tag previously used to say 'queueing to post at school' this is false as i am now in fact nauseous at home #my art

[juliaknz]

FUTURE SYSTEM HAUER-KING HOUSE, 1994 London, UK

#house #glass #facade #construction #design #designer #architecture #architect #art #archdaily #artwork #photography #juliaknz #form #design details #dezeen #uk #london #future system

[nullandvoidart]

some jon doodles

feel free to send tma, good omens, or loz requests! they're my special interests that im most into rn

#jonathan sims. head archivist at the magnus institute. london #tma fanart #tma #the magnus archives #jonathan sims #jon sims #jon #the magnus archive fanart #the archivist #can you tell were a system lol #idk who drew the glowey different art style jon lol

[bahoreal]

hey do you guys know about

the history of the bus?

they started as an "omnibus" a horse drawn two stop back and forth along a pre determined route! then they added more stops! they messed with the size of the omnibus and the number of horses until they hit the right size for the route!

(blease note these are intra-city buses, stagecoaches would go outside the city to specific locations and they generally required a reserved seat)

they basically SLAPPED A ROOF AREA to get roof passengers! double deck omnibuses!

then we get MOTOR OMNIBUSES! as the petrol engine is getting better! for context the first motor omnibus ran in 1899 - this is 13 years after the patent for the first petrol engine car (1886), 74 years after the first steam public railway in england (1825) and 36 years after the london underground was opened (1863). by 1911 there were no horse-drawn omnibuses owned by the london general omnibus company!

AND THEY WERE EVERYWHERE! (please look at the number of BUSES and INDIVIDUAL CARRIAGES [usually hired cabs] and PEDESTRIANS)

a lot of places switched to electric trams in the 1910s, public transport became reliant on the comparatively more efficient light rail or tram systems. the trams gave way to electric buses in london in 1930! they were much less dangerous than trams as people did not have to walk right into traffic to get on em

then as engines got more efficient trolleybuses were switched with petrol engine buses

then in the 1950s more people got cars and they began dominating the streets and creating.. traffic and. traffic laws. and stuff.

thanks for coming to my whistlestop bus lesson hope u have a brilliant day

#i went to a transport museum and I've been thinking about it CONSTANTLY lfjsjdhsj #this is london perspective btw since it was... the london transport museum #long post #it was like. in the 1910s a battle between buses and trams/light rail systems #and buses tended to be safer bc of the nature of traffic laws and pedestrians back then #so london prioritised buses. but people were going on the underground too bc it was muuuch faster lol #anyway. transport! fascinating #and short-stagecoaches existed before buses did for intra-city travel but they tended to be by hosuehold rather than location #also expensive. well omibuses were expensive too. this is very high level fldbfjdjfj

[asleepinawell]

fun things to do during a power outage

#won't be fixed for another six hours they say #fallen london #flmp #smen #mp #today I learned a valuable lesson about how UP and the card system work #live and learn...or die and learn as the case may be

[supjello]

bold move honestly to have all the characters yell every argument they knew fans would have at ted for why he should stay, and not have him say they’re wrong, or offer anything to counter it. Because at the end of the day it was his son. It was only his son. His son was the period at the end of the sentence, and always was going to be. Nothing else mattered, he was going home to his boy.

Literally if they were right I'd agree but it's them they know, not me. Now there's a way and I know that I have to go away. I know I have to go.

#ted lasso spoilers #ted lasso #do I like it? NO. does it feel good? NO. #did it have to happen? YES. #and he certainly wasn’t going to rip his son out of HIS home #his country the rest of his family his support system #just to force him to adapt to Ted’s lifestyle and circle in london #I get the escapist fantasy of that and I’m here for it in fic #but I think people are seriously underestimating how hard that is on a kid #moving is one of the most traumatic events a child can go through #so is divorce lmao #like would it be better for ted in england? abso-fucking-lutely #but he’s taking the L for his son #and is saving him some points on his future therapist’s ACE questionnaire lmao #ANYWAYS <-girl who only uses her workplace training about a child’s developing brain #to write hot takes about fictional families

[hephaestuscrew]

Clara's father being an Earl means that her family outranks Baron DeVries' family in terms of the hierarchy of the nobility. DeVries - a mere Baron, the lowest rank of British nobility - is constantly making references to his family's heritage and history and the responsibilities that come with it. Meanwhile, Clara - the daughter of an Earl (which is two ranks above a Baron) - actively avoids mentioning her aristocratic heritage and is making every effort she can to construct an identity and a life that is separate from that heritage. DeVries' adventuring is a continuation of his family's legacy; Clara's is a rejection of her's.

#Victoriocity #Victoriocity spoilers #Idk I just think it's interesting #I think they should have a conversation about it #I'm not going to say that Clara herself outranks DeVries #because she isn't the holder of her family's title #and she's a woman in a patriarchal system #but she is from a more 'noble' family than DeVries #Presumably her brother inherited the Earldom #which also has potential to be interesting #Clara's brother encouraged her to educate herself #which her mother blames for her desire for independence #which led her to move to London and reject her family's aristocratic heritage #the heritage which her brother is now the figurehead for... #Could be a really interesting dynamic #I hope we meet him at some point #the empty man posteth #Clara Entwhistle #Baron DeVries

[wikipediapictures]

Escalator

#escalator #holborn station #london #england #europe #wikipedia #wikipedia pictures #architecture #interiors #railway station #transport #public transport system #public transit #public transportation #public transport #underground #subway #tube

[kaicko]

Thinking about Ichigo doing an exchange program in London during college

#Can you imagine his sheer confusion #I don't really care about btw but I'm very curious about the lore and world building #Cause the events in bleach only ever seem to concern japan #And that's I find kind of weird #because why would a system that regulates souls in a cycle of life and death between whole dimensions only cover japan? #So we got the beginning of an answer #But also it raised even more questions #Like is there a soul society in every countries or do they cover a certain region? #How the fuck does reverse London works as a soul society? #Why are dragons considered the equivalent of hollows buy everyone when they clearly really don't work the same way? #So I hope kubo will answer those questions but I don't think I will get my hopes up #Until then I'll just imagine Ichigo doing an exchange program and Tôshirô and Hyôrinmaru making dragon friends #Orihime would love the little potted plants dragons #Rukia too #Bleach #Ichigo Kurosaki #Burn the witch

[philcoulsonismyhero]

A thing I've been thinking about a lot as I've been obsessively re-listening to the Rivers of London books on a loop and putting colour coded bookmarks into my paperbacks (in short, being Extremely Autistic about the series) is just how interesting it would be to explore what it would be like to be an autistic wizard in that 'verse.

Like, take vestigia. It's a whole extra category of sensory impressions on top of everything else that you're picking up on, and you only get more sensitive to it the longer you train for. Peter wonders at one point if Nightingale isn't just straight up listening to the magic of the city in order to find out about cases, and even if he isn't doing that he's still got to be picking up on a Huge amount of sense impressions from the magic around him. Would an autistic practitioner be even more sensitive to vestigia? Just how much of a sensory overload trigger would it be, given that it's not a true smell/sound/whatever? Do really skilled practitioners like Nightingale ever get overloaded by just how much they can sense? Would an autistic wizard have to train themselves to shut out their sense of vestigia so they didn't get overwhelmed?

And then there's how you learn magic in the first place, which is a lot of repetition, doing the same thing over and over again until you produce an effect, and then continuing to repeat it until the effect becomes consistent. And you build spells by learning more and more formae, memorising them in the process. Which sounds to me like Such an autism-friendly way of learning to do anything, I fucking love repetition and memorising huge amounts of information.

Also, it's pointed out a bunch of times that Nightingale has almost scary levels of focus. In Broken Homes he spends ages watching CCTV footage, and then a full half hour just staring at the dog batteries at Skygarden. And it's pretty obvious that his level of obsessive focus is what's made him such a powerful wizard, since he's willing to put in the hours of practice, so autistic obsessiveness would be useful too.

(Sidenote, but I'm not sure if I actually think Nightingale is a character I'd read as autistic. He's definitely got a bunch of traits in the right direction, like the single-minded focus, the scary levels of concentration, the things he's very particular about and the way he can miss Peter's sarcasm sometimes, but in his case I think it's more just his personality and training and age, plus all the trauma. But I do think it would be a fun possibility/what-if to explore.)

And when it just comes down to it, I don't think I've ever encountered a magic system that appeals more to the specific way that my brain works than the RoL one, it seems like it would be So fun to learn. Even, tbh especially, the Latin and all the other studying that's also involved. So it does rather entertain me that I've gotten really autistic over a book series that has such an autism-friendly magic system, it feels Good and Correct.

Although. Ben Aaronovitch. My guy. Give me a list of all the formae and how they work, I am Begging you. I've never wanted an in-universe textbook tie-in book as much as I do for this series and Eventually I'm going to get my hands on the TTRPG book and obsess over every little detail of how they've interpreted the magic for that.

#rivers of london #it's Such a good magic system and it scratches my brain in just the right way #also i think these books might have convinced me to pick up latin again #i did five years of it in school and i'm a bit rusty #but suddenly i really want to get back into it #but yes i've been bouncing off of various type of sensory overload for a month #and it's really got me thinking about how vestigia would interact with that #so here are some Thoughts #personal stuff #wizard nonsense tag #autism stuff #actually autistic

[kazz-brekker]

listening to a darker shade of magic on audiobook in preparation for fragile threads of power, and maybe i'm putting too much thought into this, but i wonder why adoption and meritocracy-based governments aren't more normalized in red london? kell is adopted, obviously, but his feelings about this and the general circumstances with the whole amnesia spell imply it's somewhat unusual. however, the book also states that everyone in red london knows that magical talent isn't inherited through bloodlines, but is actually pretty much random. so in that case, you'd think they would develop a society that was less about bloodlines and inheritance and more of a meritocracy, but they still have a monarchy and noble classes. (white london on the other hand is a weird combination of monarchy/survival of the fittest, but i really wouldn't count that as a good society structure). plus, there's a lot of emphasis in the red london chapters that rhy is old enough to get married and father and] heir but like…why does he need to have a biological kid to inherit after him? it's not like the maresh family has some particular magic talent that needs to get passed down to their children, and rhy himself is a clear example that being royalty doesn't mean you have strong magic. maybe it's because i've studied other societies like the roman empire where it was totally normal to adopt your heirs, but it feels like a bit of a missed opportunity not to explore how randomized magical talent in red london affects their society.

#idk if this makes sense it was just some random thoughts i was having while cleaning and listening to the audiobook #i suppose if you've got randomly inherited magic and a system of adopted heirs #that would start a lot of drama about who is 'worthy' to be a heir and such #also if inheriting the red london throne WAS about magical talent than rhy wouldn't even be in the line of succession and everything change #pie says stuff #pie reads #adsom #a darker shade of magic #shades of magic #ve schwab #books