Tree path 8 levels King's Pawn Game › King's Knight Opening › Normal Variation › Ruy Lopez › Morphy Defense › Ruy Lopez: Morphy Defense › Ruy Lopez: Closed › Ruy Lopez: Closed
- Chess Codex
- King's Pawn Game C20
- King's Knight Opening C40
- Normal Variation C44
- Ruy Lopez C60
- Morphy Defense C70
- Ruy Lopez: Morphy Defense C78
- Ruy Lopez: Closed C84
- Ruy Lopez: Closed C88 you are here
Ruy Lopez: Closed
Overview
Ruy Lopez: Closed is a variation within the Open Games family, indexed as ECO C88.
The Open Games group covers open games — classical 1.e4 e5 openings where both sides contest the centre directly with pawns.
It begins with 13 plies and takes 1. e4 e5 2. Nf3 Nc6 3. Bb5 a6 4. Ba4 Nf6 5. O-O Be7 6. Re1 b5 7. Bb3 to reach the canonical position.
It is a variation of Ruy Lopez: Closed, which itself descends from the root opening King's Pawn Game.
It is the root of 7 named variations, with Ruy Lopez: Closed, Ruy Lopez: Closed, Alekhine Gambit, and others among the most studied.
Counted recursively, this branch covers 48 sub-variations at all depths.
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- ECO code
- C88
- Group
- Open Games (C)
- Plies
- 13
- Parent
- Ruy Lopez: Closed
- Direct variations
- 7
- Total in subtree
- 48
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Variations (7)
Show all 48 sub-variations (full subtree)
- C90 Ruy Lopez: Closed 16-ply
- C88 Ruy Lopez: Closed 14-ply
- C88 Alekhine Gambit 27-ply
- C88 Balla Variation 21-ply
- C88 Leonhardt Variation 26-ply
- C88 Rosen Attack 15-ply
- C88 Trajkovic Counterattack 14-ply
- C92 Ruy Lopez: Closed 17-ply
- C88 Anti-Marshall 15-ply
- C90 Lutikov Variation 17-ply
- C90 Pilnik Variation 17-ply
- C90 Suetin Variation 17-ply
- C91 Yates Variation 17-ply
- C89 Ruy Lopez: Marshall Attack 16-ply
- C88 Ruy Lopez: Noah's Ark Trap 20-ply
- C91 Ruy Lopez: Closed, Bogoljubow Variation 18-ply
- C94 Breyer Defense 18-ply
- C97 Chigorin Defense 18-ply
- C92 Flohr System 18-ply
- C92 Karpov Variation 18-ply
- C92 Kholmov Variation 18-ply
- C93 Smyslov Defense 18-ply
- C92 Zaitsev System 18-ply
- C89 Modern Variation 22-ply
- C89 Original Marshall Attack 22-ply
- C89 Steiner Variation 18-ply
- C95 Ruy Lopez: Closed, Breyer 19-ply
- C94 Quiet Variation 19-ply
- C96 Ruy Lopez: Closed, Chigorin Defense 19-ply
- C92 Ruy Lopez: Closed, Smyslov-Breyer-Zaitsev Hybrid 24-ply
- C91 Ruy Lopez: Closed, Yates Variation, Short Attack 19-ply
- C89 Ruy Lopez: Marshall Attack, Main Line 23-ply
- C89 Ruy Lopez: Marshall Attack, Re3 Variation 27-ply
- C95 Ruy Lopez: Closed, Breyer Defense, Zaitsev Hybrid 20-ply
- C96 Ruy Lopez: Closed, Chigorin Defense 20-ply
- C96 Gajewski Gambit 20-ply
- C96 Ruy Lopez: Closed, Rossolimo Defense 22-ply
- C89 Ruy Lopez: Marshall Attack, Modern Main Line 28-ply
- C96 Ruy Lopez: Closed, Borisenko Variation 22-ply
- C95 Ruy Lopez: Closed, Breyer Defense 24-ply
- C95 Ruy Lopez: Closed, Breyer Defense 21-ply
- C97 Ruy Lopez: Closed, Chigorin Defense 22-ply
- C96 Ruy Lopez: Closed, Keres Defense 22-ply
- C89 Ruy Lopez: Marshall Attack, Main Line, Spassky Variation 36-ply
- C98 Ruy Lopez: Closed, Chigorin Defense 24-ply
- C99 Panov System 25-ply
- C97 Ruy Lopez: Closed, Chigorin, Yugoslav System 28-ply
- C98 Ruy Lopez: Closed, Chigorin Defense 25-ply