Tricky Line in the Ruy Lopez

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Opening theory is an overwhelming topic. Year after year chess theory develops to the point where some lines have been pretty much analyzed to a draw.

While playing main lines is important to progress as a chess player, knowing some sidelines or even dubious lines can also be useful.

The Ruy Lopez (1.e4 e5 2.Nf3 Nc6 3.Bb5) is one of the oldest chess openings.

The opening is named after the 16th-century Spanish priest Ruy López de Segura, who made a systematic study of this and other openings in the 150-page book on chess Libro del Axedrez, written in 1561.

Black has a lot of possible replies and an interesting line that I would like to share is the move 3…Nf6 (Berlin Defense) followed up by a strange knight move.

If you play this as White, you must know how to play against this line as the most common moves by White lead to a win for Black!

This is why we’ll study this line quite deeply. Also, even though this line is objectively bad for Black, there are a lot of tricks in the position.

Check out this tricky line here: https://youtu.be/o_BBeh5YFBA