Tree path 7 levels King's Pawn Game › King's Knight Opening › Normal Variation › Ruy Lopez › Berlin Defense › Ruy Lopez: Berlin Defense › Rio Gambit Accepted
- Chess Codex
- King's Pawn Game C20
- King's Knight Opening C40
- Normal Variation C44
- Ruy Lopez C60
- Berlin Defense C65
- Ruy Lopez: Berlin Defense C65
- Rio Gambit Accepted C67 you are here
Ruy Lopez: Berlin Defense, Rio Gambit Accepted
Overview
Ruy Lopez: Berlin Defense, Rio Gambit Accepted belongs to the gambit family of chess openings (ECO C67, Open Games). It trades material for attacking chances — a classic trade-off that has fascinated players from the Romantic era to modern correspondence chess.
The Open Games group covers open games — classical 1.e4 e5 openings where both sides contest the centre directly with pawns.
It is reached after 8 plies of play, with the move sequence 1. e4 e5 2. Nf3 Nc6 3. Bb5 Nf6 4. O-O Nxe4.
The line refines Ruy Lopez: Berlin Defense, which traces back to the root opening King's Pawn Game.
The line splits into 3 documented sub-systems: Ruy Lopez: Berlin Defense, l'Hermet Variation, Ruy Lopez: Berlin Defense, Rio de Janeiro Variation, Ruy Lopez: Berlin Defense, Rosenthal Variation.
In total, the branch covers 15 sub-variations across all depths.
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- ECO code
- C67
- Group
- Open Games (C)
- Plies
- 8
- Parent
- Ruy Lopez: Berlin Defense
- Direct variations
- 3
- Total in subtree
- 15
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Variations (3)
Show all 15 sub-variations (full subtree)
- C67 Ruy Lopez: Berlin Defense, l'Hermet Variation 10-ply
- C67 Ruy Lopez: Berlin Defense, Rio de Janeiro Variation 10-ply
- C67 Ruy Lopez: Berlin Defense, Rosenthal Variation 10-ply
- C67 Ruy Lopez: Berlin Defense, Cordel Variation 16-ply
- C67 Berlin Wall Defense 16-ply
- C67 Westerinen Line 14-ply
- C67 Ruy Lopez: Berlin Defense, Minckwitz Variation 11-ply
- C67 Ruy Lopez: Berlin Defense, Pillsbury Variation 17-ply
- C67 Ruy Lopez: Berlin Defense, Rio de Janeiro Variation 26-ply
- C67 Ruy Lopez: Berlin Defense, Trifunovic Variation 12-ply
- C67 Ruy Lopez: Berlin Defense, Winawer Attack 17-ply
- C67 Ruy Lopez: Berlin Defense, Zukertort Variation 17-ply
- C67 Ruy Lopez: Open Berlin Defense, l'Hermet Variation 11-ply
- C67 Ruy Lopez: Open Berlin Defense, Showalter Variation 11-ply
- C67 Ruy Lopez: Berlin Defense, Berlin Wall 18-ply