The London System Through Magnus Carlsen’s Eyes!

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Let me see what he's got here. Oh, it's just gonna go.
Why am I playing the London? Oh, this is what Ding did against me.
Should have studied it. Should have studied it. Didn't. Yeah, okay, at least I think I gotta go
PNA4 here. PNA4? Why are we playing this stupid line? Why are we getting an end game after
12 moves? Oh boy, I'm probably a little bit better here.
I really don't know whether I should keep the King in the center or not here.
How do I find this? Maybe I'm going to just do G4.
Yeah, that's what I'm gonna do. I'm gonna H4.
I think I'm going to H5.
I can also go G5.
If he goes H5, I'll take it.
Yeah, I like it.
Why didn't I go G5 before? Like, now there are very few breaks, but at least optically
getting the knight to F3 and E5 looks quite pleasing. And if he goes E5, as he does,
then at the very least I got some sort of better structure. His structure is really ugly right now.
I figure he's still kind of okay because his pieces are really well placed, but it's a bit ugly.
Okay, H5. I don't know why I did that. I don't know why I did that.
I should go H5. He just tucks that in.
It's a bit annoying. If I go B3, he goes 95, takes, takes. Okay, I've got to go Rook H3 now.
Because I've got to put that Rook on G3.
Maybe Rook E1? No, because it's 93 and I have 440.
He's intending knight F7. It's a bit annoying. I've got to go full sad mode.
Okay, let's trade this one. I don't know why. Just something to do. Okay, Rook D4 is clever.
I don't like this. Okay, I'm going to do this just to simplify the game.
Probably not very good, but at the very least I'm sort of... Why didn't he go take the pawn on D4?
That was ridiculous. Is he in time to make me here? I don't know. We'll see. I don't think he is.
I think I'm winning now. Plus, with H2, I'm going to... I'm going to queen first, I'm going to knight.
I'm going to do 5, I'm going to do 5.
Like, spend some time!
