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Ruy Lopez:Closed, Breyer Defense

1. e4 e5 2. Nf3 Nc6 3. Bb5 a6 4. Ba4 Nf6 5. O-O Be7 6. Re1 b5 7. Bb3 d6 8. c3 O-O 9. h3 Nb8

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White to move

Legal moves
28
Games in the next 4 moves
640,616
Different positions among them
221,811
Named lines from here
5

See it on the mapOn the opening map

Named after Gyula Breyer. Black retreats the knight to b8 to bring it back by d7 — a slow but very solid plan that Boris Spassky made famous.

It is reached after 18 moves: 1. e4 e5 2. Nf3 Nc6 3. Bb5 a6 4. Ba4 Nf6 5. O-O Be7 6. Re1 b5 7. Bb3 d6 8. c3 O-O 9. h3 Nb8. It is a line of the Ruy Lopez.

White is to move and has 28 legal moves. Over the next four moves — two for each side — the game can branch into 640,616 different games. Those games reach 221,811 different positions: most positions can be reached in more than one way, 2.9 on average.

The Lichess opening list names 5 further lines after this position, such as Breyer (10. d4) and Quiet Variation (10. d3).

Map of every game of the next four moves after the Ruy Lopez: Closed, Breyer Defense
Every game of the next four moves from this position, as the map draws it. Each ring is one more move; the outer ring holds all 640,616 games.

Move by move

  1. 1. e4King's Pawn Game
  2. 1... e5King's Pawn Game
  3. 2. Nf3King's Knight Opening
  4. 2... Nc6King's Knight Opening: Normal Variation
  5. 3. Bb5Ruy Lopez
  6. 3... a6Ruy Lopez: Morphy Defense
  7. 4. Ba4—
  8. 4... Nf6—
  9. 5. O-ORuy Lopez: Morphy Defense
  10. 5... Be7Ruy Lopez: Closed
  11. 6. Re1—
  12. 6... b5—
  13. 7. Bb3Ruy Lopez: Closed
  14. 7... d6—
  15. 8. c3—
  16. 8... O-ORuy Lopez: Closed
  17. 9. h3Ruy Lopez: Closed
  18. 9... Nb8Ruy Lopez: Closed, Breyer Defense

Named lines from here

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