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Ruy Lopez - chess opening strategy

The Ruy Lopez opening is a well known chess opening strategy and very popular. It starts with 1 e4 e5 2.Nf3 Nc6 3.Bb5 and has a lot of variations. This opening was first developed by Ruy Lopez (1540 – 1580), a Spanish priest and a bishop in segura, who wrote articles about chess. Black has various defences now:

The most popular move is 3...a6

There are other defences like:
3...Nge7 (Cozio)
3...Nd4 (Bird)
3...d6 (Steinitz)
3...f5!? (Schliemann)
3...g6 (Smyslov)
3...Nf6 (Berlin)
3...Bc5 (Classical or Cordel variation)

I personally like the Classical or Cordel Variation very much as the black bishop moves to the strong square c5 and puts pressure on f2.


Most popular setup is 3...a6 4. Ba4 - see video





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