Four Famous Chess Openings: Spanish/Ruy Lopez Game

Hello readers, Brian here! Today, we are going to be talking about the Ruy Lopez/Spanish Game opening. This is a fairly common opening played by grandmasters today, such as Magnus Carlsen, Vladimir Kramnik, Anish Giri, Veselin Topalov, Maxime Vachier-Lagrave, Fabiano Caruana, and many more. Below, I will be showing you some of the main variations of the opening, the history behind it, and some of my personal experiences using the Ruy Lopez/Spanish Game. The game starts as follows: 1.e4 e5 2.nf3 nc6 3.bb5 This opening was named after a Spanish priest, Ruy Lopez de Segura. The parent of this game is open because it usually results in the board having a lot of space. This means that there will be a lot of attacking opportunities, compared to a closed game where there would be more pieces maneuvering around. The point of this opening is that White’s bishop on b5 is..

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