Tree path 10 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 › Ruy Lopez: Closed › Ruy Lopez: Closed
Ruy Lopez: Closed
Overview
Ruy Lopez: Closed is a variation within the Open Games family, indexed as ECO C92.
The Open Games group covers open games — classical 1.e4 e5 openings where both sides contest the centre directly with pawns.
It begins with 17 plies and takes 1. e4 e5 2. Nf3 Nc6 3. Bb5 a6 4. Ba4 Nf6 5. O-O Be7 6. Re1 b5 7. Bb3 d6 8. c3 O-O 9. h3 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 Breyer Defense, Chigorin Defense, Flohr System, and others among the most studied.
Together the deeper variations number 24 across the full subtree.
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- ECO code
- C92
- Group
- Open Games (C)
- Plies
- 17
- Parent
- Ruy Lopez: Closed
- Direct variations
- 7
- Total in subtree
- 24
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Variations (7)
Show all 24 sub-variations (full subtree)
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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