Thoughts on the Ruy Lopez?

you forget the pleaded draw by the weaker player, urging the stronger player to play a meek line, two wins against a strong club player, two wins against players of the strength of 2400 and higher

Am I the only one who noticed that the two "crushing victories" were against the easy computer?

Well, they were crushing victories, weren't they?

Computer easy is that computer that made that spectacular queen sacrifice at the beginning of recent game of yours, right?

Yup. It seems that the people at chess.com recently reprogrammed Comp1-EASY, or at the very least tweaked with its opening repertoire, so that it now plays all sorts of weird openings more often. Since then I've had two games where the computer played the Wayward Queen Defense, as you call it. Overall, however, I would say the recent change made the computer slightly harder to beat. Previously, when the opening repertorie was more mainstream and narrower, there were a lot of ways to exploit its common openings (usually resulting in a trade of a minor piece for the computer's queen). Now the computer still does the same thing in those openings, but it plays them less often. And the weirder openings that it plays instead are harder for me to exploit, because I have less experience playing them against the computer.

It has been played by Morphy, Steinitz, Capablanca, Alekhine and many others in the past, some of the biggest names in chess history were playing the Ruy Lopez with their black pieces.

But not with their white pieces?

Not as much as with their black pieces, not sure for Alekhine but Capablanca switched to d4. Not many of them playing anything other than e4 back then.

Please friend me if you would like to play some games in the Ruy Lopez aka Spanish Opening.  I want to play these games at the 60 min time control ( or 45 min with increment). My rating at the 10 min time control is around 1700 and my correspondence rating is 2100+. I suspect my 60 min rating will be somewhere in between.