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    Ruy Lopez: Morphy Defence: 3... A6

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    The Ruy Lopez is a chess opening defined by the moves 1. e4 e5 2. Nf3 Nc6 3. Bb5. There are many variations that can arise depending on Black's response to White's bishop on b5. The main variations include the Exchange Variation (4. Bxc6), where Black recaptures with the d-pawn, and the Morphy Defence (3...a6), where Black plays to close the queenside. Within these there are further branches like the Closed Variation and Lasker Variation. The goal for White is typically to damage Black's pawn structure while Black aims to gain the bishop pair and contest White in the center

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    Ruy Lopez: Morphy Defence: 3... A6

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    The Ruy Lopez is a chess opening defined by the moves 1. e4 e5 2. Nf3 Nc6 3. Bb5. There are many variations that can arise depending on Black's response to White's bishop on b5. The main variations include the Exchange Variation (4. Bxc6), where Black recaptures with the d-pawn, and the Morphy Defence (3...a6), where Black plays to close the queenside. Within these there are further branches like the Closed Variation and Lasker Variation. The goal for White is typically to damage Black's pawn structure while Black aims to gain the bishop pair and contest White in the center

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    The Ruy Lopez is a chess opening defined by the moves 1. e4 e5 2. Nf3 Nc6 3. Bb5. There are many variations that can arise depending on Black's response to White's bishop on b5. The main variations include the Exchange Variation (4. Bxc6), where Black recaptures with the d-pawn, and the Morphy Defence (3...a6), where Black plays to close the queenside. Within these there are further branches like the Closed Variation and Lasker Variation. The goal for White is typically to damage Black's pawn structure while Black aims to gain the bishop pair and contest White in the center

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    Ruy Lopez

    The Ruy Lopez,[1] also called the Spanish Opening or Spanish Game, is a chess opening characterised


    by the moves:

    1. e4 e5
    2. Nf3 Nc6
    3. Bb5

    Encyclopaedia of Chess Openings all codes from C60 to C99 are assigned to them

    Traditionally, White's objective in playing the Ruy Lopez is to spoil Black's pawn structure; either way
    Black recaptures following the exchange on c6 will have negative features for him, though he thereby
    gains the bishop pair.[3] White does not always exchange bishop for knight on c6, however, but usually in
    the various forms of the Exchange Variation (ECO C68–C69).

     It is convenient to divide the possibilities into two groups based on whether or not Black responds with
    (3...a6), which is named the Morphy Defence after Paul Morphy, although he was not the originator of
    the line.[4] The variations with Black moves other than 3...a6 are older and generally simpler, but the
    Morphy Defence lines are more commonly played.

    Morphy Defence: 3...a6


     After 3...a6, the most commonly played line is the Closed Defence, which goes 4.Ba4 Nf6 5.0-0 Be7

     4.Bxc6 (Exchange Variation)


     4.Ba4
     4...b5 5.Bb3 Na5 (Norwegian Variation)
     4...b5 5.Bb3 Bc5 (Graz Defence)
     4...Bc5 (Classical Defence Deferred)
     4...d6 (Steinitz Defence Deferred)
     4...f5 (Schliemann Defence Deferred)
     4...Nf6 5.0-0 b5 6.Bb3 Bb7 (Arkhangelsk Defence)
     4...Nf6 5.0-0 b5 6.Bb3 Bc5 (Modern Archangel Defence)
     4...Nf6 5.0-0 Bc5 (Møller Defence)
     4...Nf6 5.0-0 d6 (Russian Defence)
     4...Nf6 5.0-0 Nxe4 (Open Defence)
    Exchange Variation

    After 4.Bxc6, Black almost always responds 4...dxc6, although 4...bxc6 is playable. It is not usually played
    due to the reply 5.d4 exd4 6.Qxd4 and White is in control of the centre.

    After 4...dxc6, the obvious 5.Nxe5? is weak, since 5...Qd4! 6.Nf3 Qxe4+ 7.Qe2 Qxe2+ leaves White with
    no compensation for Black's bishop pair, as he has not achieved his fundamental aim of spoiling Black's
    pawn structure.

    There are two principal lines after 4.Bxc6 dxc6.

    In the late 19th and early 20th centuries, Lasker had great success with 5.d4 exd4 6.Qxd4 Qxd4
    7.Nxd4

    The flexible 5.0-0 is sometimes called the Barendregt Variation

    Unlike 5.d4, it forces Black to defend his e-pawn, which he usually does with 5...f6,
    5...Bg4, 5...Qd6 (the sharpest line, preparing queenside castling), 5...Qe7, 5...Qf6 or
    5...Bd6

    A rare but playable move is 5...Be6 (or 5...Be7), the idea being that if White plays 6.Nxe5,
    Black plays 6... Qd4, forking the knight and the e4-pawn.

    The move ...Qd4, regaining the pawn at e4, is usually impossible in these variations once
    White has castled, due to the open e-file.

    Delayed Exchange Deferred

    4.Ba4 Nf6 5.Bxc6 or 5.0-0 Be7 6.Bxc6

     at first glance this seems a waste of time, but Black having played ...Nf6 rules out defending the pawn
    with ...f6, and the bishop already being on e7 means that ...Bd6 would be a loss of tempo.

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