Tree path 7 levels King's Pawn Game › King's Knight Opening › Normal Variation › Ruy Lopez › Morphy Defense › Ruy Lopez: Morphy Defense › Ruy Lopez: Open
- 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: Open C80 you are here
Ruy Lopez: Open
Overview
Ruy Lopez: Open is a variation within the Open Games family, indexed as ECO C80.
The Open Games group covers open games — classical 1.e4 e5 openings where both sides contest the centre directly with pawns.
Play reaches this position via 1. e4 e5 2. Nf3 Nc6 3. Bb5 a6 4. Ba4 Nf6 5. O-O Nxe4, after 10 plies of opening development.
It is a variation of Ruy Lopez: Morphy Defense, which itself descends from the root opening King's Pawn Game.
It branches into 4 notable variations — Ruy Lopez: Morphy Defense, Tartakower Variation, Ruy Lopez: Open, Knorre Variation, and others.
Below the direct variations, the full subtree contains 33 documented sub-variations.
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- ECO code
- C80
- Group
- Open Games (C)
- Plies
- 10
- Parent
- Ruy Lopez: Morphy Defense
- Direct variations
- 4
- Total in subtree
- 33
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Variations (4)
Show all 33 sub-variations (full subtree)
- C80 Ruy Lopez: Morphy Defense, Tartakower Variation 11-ply
- C80 Ruy Lopez: Open 11-ply
- C80 Knorre Variation 11-ply
- C80 Skipworth Gambit 12-ply
- C80 Ruy Lopez: Open 13-ply
- C83 Classical Defense, Main Line 19-ply
- C80 Friess Attack 13-ply
- C80 Richter Variation 13-ply
- C80 Riga Variation 12-ply
- C80 Ruy Lopez: Open 15-ply
- C80 Harksen Gambit 15-ply
- C80 Schlechter Defense 16-ply
- C80 Ruy Lopez: Open, Berger Variation 19-ply
- C80 Main Line 16-ply
- C80 Zukertort Variation 16-ply
- C82 Ruy Lopez: Open 17-ply
- C80 Ruy Lopez: Open, Bernstein Variation 17-ply
- C81 Ruy Lopez: Open, Howell Attack 17-ply
- C82 Berlin Variation 18-ply
- C80 Luther Line 19-ply
- C83 Ruy Lopez: Open, Classical Defense 20-ply
- C83 Classical Defense 18-ply
- C81 Ruy Lopez: Open, Howell Attack 19-ply
- C81 Ekstrom Variation 24-ply
- C82 Italian Variation 18-ply
- C80 Ruy Lopez: Open, Karpov Gambit 21-ply
- C83 Ruy Lopez: Open, Breslau Variation 22-ply
- C83 Ruy Lopez: Open, Malkin Variation 21-ply
- C82 Ruy Lopez: Open, Motzko Attack 19-ply
- C82 Ruy Lopez: Open, St. Petersburg Variation 19-ply
- C83 Ruy Lopez: Open, Tarrasch Trap 25-ply
- C82 Ruy Lopez: Open, Dilworth Variation 22-ply
- C82 Nenarokov Variation 20-ply