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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.
The line arises from 15 plies — specifically the moves 1. e4 e5 2. Nf3 Nc6 3. Bb5 a6 4. Ba4 Nf6 5. O-O Nxe4 6. d4 b5 7. Bb3 d5 8. dxe5.
It is a variation of Ruy Lopez: Open, which itself descends from the root opening King's Pawn Game.
It branches into 2 notable variations — Main Line, Zukertort Variation.
Together the deeper variations number 20 across the full subtree.
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- ECO code
- C80
- Group
- Open Games (C)
- Plies
- 15
- Parent
- Ruy Lopez: Open
- Direct variations
- 2
- Total in subtree
- 20
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Variations (2)
Show all 20 sub-variations (full subtree)
- 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