Mastering the Ruy Lopez

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lightningleapord8

I am preparing this opening. Can someone give me some ideas how to play while fully mastering this openings. I checked some masters game but i cannot understand.please give me some information.

kindaspongey

Possibly helpful:
Starting Out: Ruy Lopez by John Shaw (2003)
https://web.archive.org/web/20140627024240/http://www.chesscafe.com/text/hansen53.pdf

poucin

Don't expect some ideas here to make u understand this opening.

Too much material, u have to get a book for that.

macer75

To master the Ruy Lopez opening, you need to remember to play

1. e4 e5

2. Nf3 Nc6

3. Bb5

lightningleapord8

@poucin please recommend me some books for me.

 

kindaspongey

Another possibility:

The Ruy Lopez: Move by Move by Neil McDonald (2011)
https://web.archive.org/web/20140627022042/http://www.chesscafe.com/text/hansen153.pdf

lightningleapord8

the book is too expensive for me@kindaspongey

jurrego
attackchesskid escribió:

I am preparing this opening. Can someone give me some ideas how to play while fully mastering this openings. I checked some masters game but i cannot understand.please give me some information.


SmithyQ

In some ways, the Ruy Lopez is very easy to understand.  White intends to pressure Black's centre pawn, force a concession and then play c3 and d4, dominating the centre.  From there, White plays based on how Black responds, and White typically plays on both sides of the board.

Of course, in others ways, the Ruy Lopez is incredibly hard to understand., where an ill-timed exchange can come back to haunt you 20 moves later, and a single misplaced piece can lead to strategic ruin.  I don't pretend to understand this opening, and I've tried to play it many times.

There are few resources that explain the Lopez from White's perspective in any accessible way.  The best is likely the McDonald book mentioned earlier.

Pixenix

Look at the games of the top players and see how they play the Ruy Lopez.

Good player to look at would Karpov

lightningleapord8

thanks

 

despe12ado

Karjakin-Carlsen, World Blitz Championship 2012 

Ruy lopez  https://file.army/i/8gMbNQ

lightningleapord8

thanks

 

snakey77

let me show you some ideas for white and ideas for black. please note I am only like 2028 on the live ratings, so don't take this advice too seriously.

 

one of the main ideas for white in ruy lopez is to move the knight to g3 and then f5. now black has several different defensive ideas from here

Black can also go for this idea instead of g6.
this is a very popular idea if I remember things right, but I actually do not fully understand it so I can't really give you much of an explanation of this - sorry. maybe a kind fellow will explain it to you here later.
 
Here is another one of white's ideas. this time it is not on the kingside, but on the queenside. here's a position from a mainline c98  chigorin defense.
so thanks for reading this! you don't know how much it means for me for people to see what I write, countless times I am ignored after spending like an hour writing some advice. I hope you learned a lot from what I wrote!

 

lightningleapord8

Thanks a lot!

 

Robert-Paulson

Hey there snakey77 - just wanted to let you know that you post is certainly useful and appreciated (and it comes up in the first few results of a google search for Ruy Lopez typical ideas, so many others will learn from it too happy.png

Lawkeito

mastering the ruy lopez- ponzetto is considered one of the best books

Lyudmil_Tsvetkov

The Schliemann-Jaenisch, 3...f5, is best, black gets fully equal at around move 25 or so.

 

TheSiliconCarne
Lyudmil_Tsvetkov wrote:

The Schliemann-Jaenisch, 3...f5, is best, black gets fully equal at around move 25 or so.

 

 

 

 Lol so why nobody plays this line at 2600+ level?

Lyudmil_Tsvetkov

Because it is extremely tactical, and top players, just like everyone else, like getting

their play in familiar systems.

With the Schliemann-Jaenisch, it is constant tactics, similarly to the Traxler Gambit

of the Two Knights.

Who is playing the Traxler on top level?

I have seen many theoretical books, where 3...f5 gets !?, so more good than bad, but it is very difficult

to investigate until the end.

I tried to do that with Stockfish, and am getting fully equal in all lines quite soon, but of course,

I might have skipped something.