It sounds like you are looking for more than just a line or two against most Ruy Lopez lines. You can find opening books on any one variation that span hundreds of pages. I am not aware of a complete guide that covers all that material and provides the level of detail you are looking for. I assume that kind of “ultimate guide” would take a publisher quite a while to create. It would need to be broken into quite a few volumes and be too costly to be worth printing.
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A book on the Ruy Lopez is obsolete while in print.
Better study the recent Ruy Lopez games at the Yekaterinburg Candidates Tournament instead.
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tygxc wrote:
A book on the Ruy Lopez is obsolete while in print.
Better study the recent Ruy Lopez games at the Yekaterinburg Candidates Tournament instead.
Any links or youtube videos ?
If you're new to the Ruy, none of those games will make much of a difference. You won't end up in situations where a theoretical novelty on move 30 will show up on the board. If you like how a specific author/streamer explains things, pay attention to their RL videos. You will see a lot of the same maneuvers in many of the closed lines.
Ruy Lopez: move by move by GM Neil McDonald is a good book to get general understanding and positional knowledge.
It is NOT a repertoire book, and it is NOT suited for beginners, or masters- but rather class players.
I'm looking for a book on the ruy lopez that covers both main line(closed) and open variations in detail. I've some books on the ruy lopez but they cover the closed and open variations seperatly. there are however a few books that do cover every type but are only basics and not in depth