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The Ruy Lopez position
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noleryer wrote:
The ruy lopez gives black great attacking chances but is incredibly passive for white.
I think you're really off the mark.
Breyer Variation
Tchigorin Variation
Zaitzev Variation
Open Variation
Exchange and Delayed Exchange Variation
This will keep you busy for the next decade or so.
Throw them on the heap too.
By the time you get done with an in-depth Lopez study, you'll be a really good chess player.
(Just don't bother with the Bird Variation 3...Nd4) 
I used to play it but got worse and worse results. It's a tough one to play as Black.
DrSpudnik wrote:
Don't waste your time. Look up good things instead.
You bast*rd! I'm joking of course. ;)
Ruy Smith is good!
I want to become an IM
Learning the Lopez is a good way to start down that path.
DrSpudnik wrote:
Learning the Lopez is a good way to start down that path.
thought starting off with the king pawns (or queen pawns) opening and work your way up to the Ruy Lopez would be good.
Isi'nt Ruy a good position? I know we talked about it on the first page but the king's pawns are good. And bread and butter.
kco wrote
thought starting off with the king pawns (or queen pawns) opening and work your way up to the Ruy Lopez would be good.
Is Ruy Lopez a real person?
Can you please show us a PGN of this "Bread and Butter" opening you've mentioned, as it seems no one except you knows what it is
1. a means of support or subsistence; livelihood the inheritance was their bread and butter (modifier)
bread-and-butter
a. providing a basic means of subsistence a bread-and-butter job
b. solid, reliable, or practical a bread-and-butter player
c. expressing gratitude, as for hospitality (esp in the phrase bread-and-butter letter)
Sounds like some GM used a metaphor.
the four Knights are fun too!
Oh! Smith defence! I will look that up!