ecocodes
a1b2c3d4e5f6g7h8
After 3.Bb5 · Black to move

Ruy Lopez

The list files 235 lines under the name Ruy Lopez, spread over 40 codes (C60–C99). Only two openings in the list have more named lines. C60 alone holds 19 of them. From the starting position of Ruy Lopez, the most-travelled continuation is 3...a6, with 153 lines. The deepest, Ruy Lopez: Marshall Attack, Main Line, Spassky Variation, runs to 18...Qh5. At the end of 51 lines one side is ahead on material; 25 names contain the word Gambit.

Score sheet
#WhiteBlack
1e4e5
2Nf3Nc6
3Bb5

Where the lines split

Two hundred and thirty-four of the 235 lines continue from 3.Bb5; the bars show how many take each next move, and the indented rows the most common reply.

  1. 3...a6153
    1. 4.Ba4141
    2. 4.Bxc611
  2. 3...Nf637
    1. 4.O-O28
    2. 4.d36
    3. 4.d41
    4. 4.Nxe51
  3. 3...f59
    1. 4.Nc35
    2. 4.Bxc61
    3. 4.exf51
    4. 4.d41
  4. 3...Bc58
    1. 4.c35
    2. 4.O-O1
    3. 4.b41
  5. 3...d66
    1. 4.d45
  6. 3...g64
    1. 4.c32
    2. 4.d41
  7. 3...d53
    1. 4.Nxe52
  8. 3...Bb42
    1. 4.c31
  9. 3...Nd42
    1. 4.Nxd41
  10. 3...Nge72
    1. 4.Nc31

Codes holding Ruy Lopez lines

Volume C

  1. 00
  2. 01
  3. 02
  4. 03
  5. 04
  6. 05
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  8. 07
  9. 08
  10. 09
  11. 10
  12. 11
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  30. 29
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  100. 99
CodeReference lineLinesLongest line (plies)
C60Ruy Lopez19Ruy Lopez: Cozio Defense, Tartakower Gambit (16)
C61Ruy Lopez: Bird Variation2Ruy Lopez: Bird Variation, Paulsen Variation (10)
C62Ruy Lopez: Steinitz Defense5Ruy Lopez: Steinitz Defense, Nimzowitsch Attack (11)
C63Ruy Lopez: Schliemann Defense9Ruy Lopez: Schliemann Defense, Classical Variation (14)
C64Ruy Lopez: Classical Variation10Ruy Lopez: Classical Variation, Modern Main Line (13)
C65Ruy Lopez: Berlin Defense13Ruy Lopez: Berlin Defense, Anti-Berlin Variation, Mortimer Trap (10)
C66Ruy Lopez: Berlin Defense, Improved Steinitz Defense7Ruy Lopez: Berlin Defense, Tarrasch Trap (14)
C67Ruy Lopez: Berlin Defense, Rio Gambit Accepted16Ruy Lopez: Berlin Defense, Rio de Janeiro Variation (26)
C68Ruy Lopez: Exchange Variation6Ruy Lopez: Exchange Variation, Alekhine Variation (14)
C69Ruy Lopez: Exchange Variation, Normal Variation5Ruy Lopez: Exchange Variation, Alapin Gambit (12)
C70Ruy Lopez: Morphy Defense12Ruy Lopez: Morphy Defense, Norwegian Variation, Nightingale Gambit (11)
C71Ruy Lopez: Morphy Defense, Modern Steinitz Defense4Ruy Lopez: Noah’s Ark Trap (16)
C72Ruy Lopez: Morphy Defense, Modern Steinitz Defense2Ruy Lopez: Closed, Kecskemet Variation (18)
C73Ruy Lopez: Morphy Defense, Modern Steinitz Defense2Ruy Lopez: Morphy Defense, Modern Steinitz Defense (12)
C74Ruy Lopez: Morphy Defense, Modern Steinitz Defense3Ruy Lopez: Morphy Defense, Modern Steinitz Defense (13)
C75Ruy Lopez: Morphy Defense, Modern Steinitz Defense2Ruy Lopez: Morphy Defense, Modern Steinitz Defense (12)
C76Ruy Lopez: Morphy Defense, Modern Steinitz Defense, Fianchetto Variation1Ruy Lopez: Morphy Defense, Modern Steinitz Defense, Fianchetto Variation (12)
C77Ruy Lopez: Morphy Defense, Anderssen Variation8Ruy Lopez: Wormald Attack, Grünfeld Variation (16)
C78Ruy Lopez: Morphy Defense9Ruy Lopez: Rabinovich Variation (20)
C79Ruy Lopez: Morphy Defense, Steinitz Deferred4Ruy Lopez: Steinitz Defense Deferred, Boleslavsky Variation (19)
C80Ruy Lopez: Open18Ruy Lopez: Open, Karpov Gambit (21)
C81Ruy Lopez: Open, Howell Attack3Ruy Lopez: Open, Howell Attack, Ekstrom Variation (24)
C82Ruy Lopez: Open7Ruy Lopez: Open, Dilworth Variation (22)
C83Ruy Lopez: Open, Classical Defense6Ruy Lopez: Open, Tarrasch Trap (25)
C84Ruy Lopez: Closed6Ruy Lopez: Closed, Center Attack, Basque Gambit (16)
C85Ruy Lopez: Closed, Delayed Exchange1Ruy Lopez: Closed, Delayed Exchange (11)
C86Ruy Lopez: Closed, Worrall Attack4Ruy Lopez: Closed, Worrall Attack, Castling Line (17)
C87Ruy Lopez: Closed, Averbakh Variation1Ruy Lopez: Closed, Averbakh Variation (12)
C88Ruy Lopez: Closed9Ruy Lopez: Closed, Alekhine Gambit (27)
C89Ruy Lopez: Marshall Attack9Ruy Lopez: Marshall Attack, Main Line, Spassky Variation (36)
C90Ruy Lopez: Closed4Ruy Lopez: Closed, Lutikov Variation (17)
C91Ruy Lopez: Closed, Yates Variation3Ruy Lopez: Closed, Yates Variation, Short Attack (19)
C92Ruy Lopez: Closed6Ruy Lopez: Closed, Smyslov-Breyer-Zaitsev Hybrid (24)
C93Ruy Lopez: Closed, Smyslov Defense1Ruy Lopez: Closed, Smyslov Defense (18)
C94Ruy Lopez: Closed, Breyer Defense2Ruy Lopez: Closed, Breyer Defense, Quiet Variation (19)
C95Ruy Lopez: Closed, Breyer4Ruy Lopez: Closed, Breyer Defense (24)
C96Ruy Lopez: Closed, Chigorin Defense6Ruy Lopez: Closed, Borisenko Variation (22)
C97Ruy Lopez: Closed, Chigorin Defense3Ruy Lopez: Closed, Chigorin, Yugoslav System (28)
C98Ruy Lopez: Closed, Chigorin Defense2Ruy Lopez: Closed, Chigorin Defense (25)
C99Ruy Lopez: Closed, Chigorin Defense, Panov System1Ruy Lopez: Closed, Chigorin Defense, Panov System (25)

Longest Ruy Lopez lines

  1. Ruy Lopez: Marshall Attack, Main Line, Spassky Variation 36
  2. Ruy Lopez: Marshall Attack, Modern Main Line 28
  3. Ruy Lopez: Closed, Chigorin, Yugoslav System 28
  4. Ruy Lopez: Closed, Alekhine Gambit 27
  5. Ruy Lopez: Marshall Attack, Re3 Variation 27
  6. Ruy Lopez: Berlin Defense, Rio de Janeiro Variation 26
  7. Ruy Lopez: Closed, Leonhardt Variation 26
  8. Ruy Lopez: Open, Tarrasch Trap 25