As White

Ruy López (Spanish Opening) · Advanced

The classical opening par excellence. It puts immediate pressure on the centre.

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Lines

1. Opponent's mistake · 4...d6

   1.e4 e5 2.Nf3 Nc6 3.Bb5 Bc5 4.c3 d6 5.d4 exd4 6.cxd4 Bb4+ 7.Kf1 Bd7 8.Qa4 a5 9.a3 Nge7 10.axb4 Nxb4 11.h4

2. Opponent's mistake · 5...d6

   1.e4 e5 2.Nf3 Nc6 3.Bb5 Nf6 4.O-O Bc5 5.c3 d6 6.d4 exd4 7.cxd4 Bb6 8.d5 a6 9.Ba4 O-O 10.dxc6 bxc6 11.Bxc6

3. Opponent's mistake · 7...Nxd4

   1.e4 e5 2.Nf3 Nc6 3.Bb5 a6 4.Ba4 Nf6 5.O-O b5 6.Bb3 Be7 7.d4 Nxd4 8.Nxd4 exd4 9.e5 Ne4 10.Qf3 d5 11.exd6 Nxd6 12.Qxa8

4. Morphy Defense · 7.d4 exd4

   1.e4 e5 2.Nf3 Nc6 3.Bb5 a6 4.Ba4 Nf6 5.O-O b5 6.Bb3 Be7 7.d4 exd4 8.e5 Ne4 9.Bd5 Nc5 10.Nxd4 Bb7 11.Nf5 O-O 12.Nc3 Nxe5 13.Ne4

5. Berlin Defense, Beverwijk Variation

   1.e4 e5 2.Nf3 Nc6 3.Bb5 Nf6 4.O-O Bc5 5.c3 O-O 6.d4 exd4 7.cxd4 Bb6 8.e5 Nd5 9.Bc4

6. Closed

   1.e4 e5 2.Nf3 Nc6 3.Bb5 a6 4.Ba4 Nf6 5.O-O Be7 6.Re1 b5 7.Bb3 O-O 8.d3 d5 9.exd5 Nxd5 10.Nxe5 Nxe5 11.Rxe5 c6 12.Re1 Bd6 13.Nd2 Qh4 14.g3 Qh3 15.Ne4

7. Berlin Defense, Rio Gambit Accepted · 6.Nxe5 Nxe5

   1.e4 e5 2.Nf3 Nc6 3.Bb5 Nf6 4.O-O Nxe4 5.Re1 Nd6 6.Nxe5 Nxe5 7.Rxe5+ Be7 8.Bf1 O-O 9.d4

8. Morphy Defense · 7.d4 d6

   1.e4 e5 2.Nf3 Nc6 3.Bb5 a6 4.Ba4 Nf6 5.O-O b5 6.Bb3 Be7 7.d4 d6 8.dxe5 dxe5 9.Qxd8+ Bxd8 10.a4 b4 11.Bg5

9. Steinitz Defense

   1.e4 e5 2.Nf3 Nc6 3.Bb5 d6 4.d4 Bd7 5.d5 Nce7 6.Bxd7+ Qxd7 7.c4 Nf6 8.Nc3 Ng6 9.h4

10. Open, Classical Defense

    1.e4 e5 2.Nf3 Nc6 3.Bb5 a6 4.Ba4 Nf6 5.O-O Nxe4 6.d4 b5 7.Bb3 d5 8.dxe5 Be6 9.Nbd2

11. Berlin Defense, Rio Gambit Accepted · 6.Nxe5 Be7

    1.e4 e5 2.Nf3 Nc6 3.Bb5 Nf6 4.O-O Nxe4 5.Re1 Nd6 6.Nxe5 Be7 7.Bf1 O-O 8.Nf3 Nf5 9.d4 d5 10.g3

12. Morphy Defense, Neo-Arkhangelsk Variation

    1.e4 e5 2.Nf3 Nc6 3.Bb5 a6 4.Ba4 Nf6 5.O-O b5 6.Bb3 Bc5 7.a4 Rb8 8.c3 d6 9.axb5

13. Morphy Defense, Graz Variation

    1.e4 e5 2.Nf3 Nc6 3.Bb5 a6 4.Ba4 b5 5.Bb3 Bc5 6.O-O d6 7.a4 b4 8.c3