600 Ruy Lopez Miniatures

This is the sixth in Bill Wall's famous Chess Miniature series. Short games make it it quick and easy to study openings, tactics, traps and other essentials to improving your chess game!Ruy Lopez (1.e4 e5 2.Nf3 Nc6 3.Bb5), or Spanish Opening, is the most famous and popular of all chess openings and despite the extensive depth and length of opening analysis for over 450 years, it continues to be a popular opening among amateurs and grandmasters. Mastery of either side requires tactical alertness and strategic planning. Even today, chess masters quickly fall into traps and pitfalls arising from the Ruy Lopez. It is the task in this present volume to bring together these decisive short games (25 moves or less) of the Ruy Lopez from practical games. Here is a rich collection of over 600 such chess miniatures, with examples from chess kibitzers to grandmasters and world chess champions. These short games illustrate the swift punishment that follows from poor opening strategy or erroneous development. This instructive and entertaining collection of decisive miniature games will be of interest to any player who plays the Ruy Lopez or has to defend against it. Enjoy!