Hi ¡

I'm looking for complete books of the Spanish Opening. I know how to play this opening but i would like control it at 100%.

I can learn books in Spanish (the best choice), English or Portuguese.

Thank you

There are pretty much no single volume books published anymore that offer comprehensive coverage of an entire opening. The opening books that are published nowadays are almost exclusively "repertoire" books that cover only selective variations of an opening. Exceptions are the Everyman "Starting Out" series, and the over a dozen year old, but still obtainable, Everyman series of circa 144 page long book(let)s on specific openings, such as Matthew Sadler's excellent books on the Slav, the Semi-Slav, and the Queen's Gambit Declined, both of which generally offer a fairly good overall general overview of an opening without being very detailed as to specific variations.

The most recent book that  attempted to cover the Spanish Game in its entirely was Alexeis Suetin's Russian language book of the same name, published in the mid 1980s.

There are many DVDs that attempt to cover an entire opening, but none that I know of that claim to cover the Spanish Game in anything approaching its entirety.

Single volume "all-inclusive" opening compendiums such as Modern Chess Openings and Nunn's Chess Openings will offer light coverage of most variations of an opening, but also do not offer much in the way of explanation of ideas.

Thanks for the answer JackieMatra.I'll check the books that you told me. I'll continue working the Spanish Opening on my own and with another material that i have.

If you want a general overview of themes and ideas common in the Spanish Game, then you may want to have a look at this out-of-print book, "Mastering the Spanish:With the Read and Play Method" by Daniel King and Pietro Ponzetto, or this currently available book, "The Ruy Lopez: Move by Move" by Neil McDonald, but I would hardly expect either of them to be very thorough given the brevity of the books in comparison with the vastness of the Spanish Game, and I am quite unfamiliar with either of these books.

I've heard good things about Dynamics of Chess Strategy by Vlastimil Jansa. I also own this book, although I'm just 20 or so pages into it. A lot of the book is supposed to feature Spanish and Grunfeld positions and ideas.

Here it is. Long out-of-print, but still available. Four very brief amazon customer reviews, and a fair number of a bit expensive copies for sale. Again, I have never looked at this book, myself.

http://www.amazon.com/Mastering-Spanish-Method-Batsford-Library/dp/0805032789/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1425055476&sr=1-1&keywords=mastering+the+spanish

http://www.amazon.com/gp/offer-listing/0713462892/ref=sr_1_1_twi_2_olp?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1425055294&sr=1-1&keywords=mastering+the+spanish

http://www.amazon.com/gp/offer-listing/0805032789/ref=sr_1_1_twi_1_olp?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1425055443&sr=1-1&keywords=mastering+the+spanish

Thank so much to all. I'll check all this ^ ^.

The key for studying any opening is to get a brief book explaining ideas and typical plans and tactics, and a second book which is normally a repertoire book. For the Spanish, that would be A MUST to have Mastering the Spanish by Ponzetto and King. It explains the idas and plans by focusing on typical pawn centers and formations of this of that variation. This is tremendously relevant. Then I suggest you get you get (and read!) Andrew Greet, Play the Rut Lopez, or the three volumes by Glenn Flear, one on the "Ruy Lopez Main Line", another one "Offbeat Spanish" and the last one on the "Open Ruy Lopez." Cheers!

A copy of Mastering The Spanish by Daniel King & Pietro Ponzetto......

can be downloaded from here...

https://www.scribd.com/document/168419424/D-King-and-P-Ponzetto-Mastering-the-Spanish

https://www.chess.com/blog/RussBell/scribd-com-for-online-chess-book-reading

Some books on the Spanish Game (Ruy Lopez) are suggested here...

Good Chess Openings Books For Beginners and Beyond...

https://www.chess.com/blog/RussBell/good-chess-openings-books-for-beginners-and-beyond

Malchev wrote 2 excellent books on the Spanish. They are in Russian but are basically languageless, like Informant.

Both the 1975 and 1981 versions are on ebay right now (I am not the seller). They are not cutting edge current but this is unnecessary for players under 2200 Elo anyway. Caruana has a 3 part current DVD series out on Chessbase but I haven't seen them. They are likely to be both good and very advanced.  The King and Ponzetto book is the best book for 1600-2000 players.

Hi!

I hope this won't be considered shameless advertising, but I would highly recommend checking out my full 1.e4 e5! repertoire for Black, which, of course, includes Ruy Lopez.

https://www.chessable.com/unleash-the-bull-1e5-a-full-repertoire-for-black/course/25866/

Would this help?

Thanks,

Yuriy