Easy Guide to the Ruy Lopez

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Summary: A good easy-guide book to learn this opening
Review: Hello I'm a player who first used to play openings like the scotch gambit, and the itialian (Bc4), but I began to see it is difficult to get a opening advantage with that openings and the tricks only work until 1800-level. In this book you get the ideas and the most impotant variantions. The subvariations are not to much mentioned but most of the times that's because you have to be able to refuse the worse moves yourself. It's rather written for the white side, but it's more objective than most books. It's a repertoire book and there are parts of the ruy lopez like the Marshall gambit you won't find here because they advice for white to play the anti-marshall. I think that's a adventage so you won't have to see in a game yourself why some variations are worse.

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Summary: Great introduction to the Ruy
Review: This book offers advice for the practitioner of the Spanish. It is reasonably complete in the fact that it covers the opening from the point of view of black's responses.

As you know the Spanish goes 1. e4-e5, 2. Nf3-Nc6 3. Bb5 ... It is here where the author starts. The book goes through all the major variations in some detail. (Often my computer will eventually diverge down some hidden lines of play which were overlooked by this book.) The only major drawback with this book is that the exchange variation is not covered in-depth.

Overall, this is a good book and recomended for any player. (Also, if you are a beginner and are looking to study the openings, the Ruy Lopez and the Queen's Gambit are a good place to start.)

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Summary: Nice work, but lack some important subjects
Review: This is a very serious opening work in the very complex world of Ruy Lopez variations. Well constructed and very useful for learning. Only the absence of some very important lines reduces it's qualification. Those lines are, in my opinion: the Worral Attack, the Exchange Variation and most of all, the Marshall counter-gambit.

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Summary: Good book but far from "easy"
Review: Tons of detail- no complete games but good coverage of essential variations.