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Originally Posted by mrkajz44
Thanks for the explanation! I never would have thought about giving the bishop a little hole to hide in the pawn ranks. I suppose I've never actually seen it used because the other player sees that its available and doesn't make the move that forces it. Clearly I have some work to do to get to this level.
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In this case, it's purely studying the opening. I use the London a lot, so I have been hit by that stupid knight many many times and paid attention when I saw somebody explain a way to deal with it. I initially learned the London from a Gotham Chess video, but more recently learned a lot more of the later ideas from this series Aman Hambleton did on Chessbrah:
Particularly in the earlier videos he does a good job of explaining why he is doing certain things. I'm pretty sure somewhere in the first few you can find him explaining the pawn move almost exactly the way I did in my post.