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The Ruy Lopez opening is characterized by the moves:
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1. e4 e5
2. Nf3 Nc6
3. Bb5
Why is this opening so popular? It does not appear to be particularly special/unique for white or black, so ...
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In the Ruy Lopez Exchange, black always takes back the bishop with 4...dxc6. In Timothy Taylor's 2011 book Slay the Spanish, he ...
The Cozio defense arises after these moves:
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1.e4 e5 2.Nf3 Nc6 3.Bb5 Nge7
At first, this looks like just another dubious opening, but I found it surprisingly hard to prove an advantage with ...
As an amateur, I prefer the Scotch game as opposed to Ruy Lopez, since I feel that White loses tempo and Black seems to gain tempo with queenside counterplay in the main line.
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I don't get the point of Morphy's Defence in the Ruy Lopez opening:
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1. e4 e5 2. Nf3 Nc6 3. Bb5 a6
If White's purpose was to exchange Bishop for Knight and take the e5 pawn after it loses ...
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