Tree path 7 levels King's Pawn Game › King's Knight Opening › Normal Variation › Ruy Lopez › Morphy Defense › Modern Steinitz Defense › Ruy Lopez: Morphy Defense, Modern Steinitz Defense
- Chess Codex
- King's Pawn Game C20
- King's Knight Opening C40
- Normal Variation C44
- Ruy Lopez C60
- Morphy Defense C70
- Modern Steinitz Defense C71
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Ruy Lopez: Morphy Defense, Modern Steinitz Defense
Overview
Ruy Lopez: Morphy Defense, Modern Steinitz Defense is a variation within the Open Games family, indexed as ECO C74.
The Open Games group covers open games — classical 1.e4 e5 openings where both sides contest the centre directly with pawns.
It begins with 9 plies and takes 1. e4 e5 2. Nf3 Nc6 3. Bb5 a6 4. Ba4 d6 5. c3 to reach the canonical position.
It is a variation of Ruy Lopez: Morphy Defense, Modern Steinitz Defense, which itself descends from the root opening King's Pawn Game.
It branches into 2 notable variations — Ruy Lopez: Morphy Defense, Modern Steinitz Defense, Siesta Variation.
Together the deeper variations number 4 across the full subtree.
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- ECO code
- C74
- Group
- Open Games (C)
- Plies
- 9
- Direct variations
- 2
- Total in subtree
- 4
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