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Ruy Lopez

  • International 
  • Formed: Jul 29, 2010
  • When playing e4 with White against a non-Sicilian e5 player, we have 3 active solutions: the Italian game, the Three Knights and the Spanish torture. The issue with the Giuoco Piano and the Three Knights can be how dull and symmetrical the game turns to be for White against good Black play. However, the Ruy Lopez has a specific feature the other two openings lack: it allows White to increase pressure on Black's center at move 3, pinning down the c6 Knight, thus forcing Black to mess up his Queen side pawn structure to get the White bishop out of the way. This opening is very interesting, studied extensively and played at the highest level. The goal of this group is to practice the Ruy Lopez together in Vote Chess. Welcome!

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  • hi can we play a game

    by mshinde 6 weeks ago

  • Welcome to the group mshinde

    by kco 6 weeks ago

  • anybody want to play Ruy Lopez with me

    by mshinde 6 weeks ago

  • Time to abandon ship here my friends. This group is just dead weight. If you're looking for a group that's big enuf to be active, but small enuf to be personal, then come join The Dark Knights!!! We'd love to have you!!!

    by Billium248 11 months ago

  • Hi, my name is kco, this is very sad to see the sup admin has left. so I was wondering if you would like to go over to my group http://www.chess.com/groups/home/the-radical-ruy-lopez in there we have 160 members, so you can come over (amalgamated?) and have this group close. ? tell me what do you think.

    by kco 17 months ago

  • Hello bello! :)

    by Vivec 2 years ago

  • http://www.chess.com/groups/home/world-cup-of-chess-openings

    by Billium248 3 years ago

  • thanks, haven't actually played 1c3 since that tnment and have quite a few personal and vote games going but will join the vote game and see how it goes :-)

    by MM78 3 years ago

  • So is this group going to join the World Cup of Chess Openings? It'd be a perfect way to let more people know about this group and this opening.

    by Billium248 3 years ago