Sharp chess that can come out of the Moller defense in the ruy lopez

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JGSantos

The ruy lopez(spanish) opening has been played thousands of times over the time and it can create a good advantage for white.

There are many ways that black can play to fight that.

My favourite is the Moller defense, that can give an equal or better position.

Let's take a look at some sharp lines and examples.

Hope you got something out of that cya ! :)

poucin

A very interesting sub variation is 6...Bb6, discussed by Glenn Flear in Dangerous Weapon 1.e4 e5.

Here is the sample game :



Be6-c8-b7, u enter Arkangelsk with 2 tempi down, unlikely to be a good manoeuvre...

Moreover, In your main variation, 9.Re1 is somewhat useless because Nxe4 not a threat, indeed Nxe4 Bd5 forking!

So the move is 9.d4 instead... And now i stop because its big theory and we could talk about it many hours...

JGSantos
uscftigerprowl escreveu:

7. Re1 looks like a mistake, possible blunder.

 

Why not 7...Nxf2+ ?

 

7...Nxf2 8.Qe2 Nd3+ 9.Kh1 Nxe1 10.Qxe1

Thank you for advertising actually it was a mistake by me, better was d4 :)

JGSantos
poucin escreveu:

A very interesting sub variation is 6...Bb6, discussed by Glenn Flear in Dangerous Weapon 1.e4 e5.

Here is the sample game :

 



Be6-c8-b7, u enter Arkangelsk with 2 tempi down, unlikely to be a good manoeuvre...

Moreover, In your main variation, 9.Re1 is somewhat useless because Nxe4 not a threat, indeed Nxe4 Bd5 forking!

So the move is 9.d4 instead... And now i stop because its big theory and we could talk about it many hours...

Thank you also for stoping by :) !

JGSantos
pfren escreveu:
poucin wrote:

A very interesting sub variation is 6...Bb6, discussed by Glenn Flear in Dangerous Weapon 1.e4 e5.

Here is the sample game :

 



Be6-c8-b7, u enter Arkangelsk with 2 tempi down, unlikely to be a good manoeuvre...

Moreover, In your main variation, 9.Re1 is somewhat useless because Nxe4 not a threat, indeed Nxe4 Bd5 forking!

So the move is 9.d4 instead... And now i stop because its big theory and we could talk about it many hours...

True. I like this without ...a6 and Ba4 inserted even better, but the problem is that after 1.e4 e5 2.Nf3 Nc6 3.Bb5 Nf6 4.0-0 Bc5 the move 5.Nxe5! is quite annoying, while with ...a6 inserted it's nothing fancy.

Actually ilooked at that variation and you just simply take the night, d4 and simply Bxd4. Nothing going on.