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Designed for chess beginners, this lesson on the Ruy Lopez chess opening includes Video under the name "Ruy Lopez Answering Statistics". Find Video below on this page. To see all material on the Ruy Lopez, click the link "Return to the Main Page of the Ruy Lopez" at the top or bottom of this page...
Today we will discuss the answering statistics on the Ruy Lopez chess opening. You should learn these statistics in order to know which lines of the Ruy Lopez are the most common today. The Ruy Lopez chess opening starts with the following moves: 1.e4 e5 2.Nf3 Nc6 3.Bb5 (see them in the picture below).
I. Ruy Lopez: Answering Moves
The Ruy Lopez: 1.e4 e5 2.Nf3 Nc6 3.Bb5.
Then, Black may answer by the following 3rd move:
3... a6, or 3... Nf6, or 3... d6, or 3... Bc5, or 3... f5, or 3... Nge7, or 3... Nd4, or 3... g6, or 3... f6, or 3... Be7, or 3... Na5, , or 3... g5, or 3... Qe7. But do you know how often Black answers, to say, 3... a6, 3... Nf6, 3... g6, or 3... Nge7? The Ruy Lopez answers which were popular in 1900 may be not popular today...
Ruy Lopez: Answering Statistics Video
Video 2 "Ruy Lopez: The Answering Statistics" is below, and it will show you which 3 Black answering moves to the Ruy Lopez are being played today in 90% of the games. The video runs for 2 min 01 sec. To see the video on the Ruy Lopez on the topic, just click the Play button below:
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On this page, we discussed the answering statistics of the Ruy Lopez chess opening... To sum up what you have seen in the above video: In 90% of the games, Black answers to the Ruy Lopez with 3... a6, 3... Nf6, or 3... d6 with the following distribution: a6 ~ 65%, Nf6 ~ 20%, and d6 ~ 5%.
