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What is the correct(non variation) opening sequence for this opening?

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Originally posted by olsonm76
What is the correct(non variation) opening sequence for this opening?
1.e4,e5 2.Nf3,Nc6 3.Bb5 after that the different variations are determined.

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There are no "non variation" sequences for any opening. There's the Classical Variation, which sounds like a "non variation."

The one I think of as most "standard" is the Closed Morphy Defense:

3...a6 4. Ba4 Nf6 5. O-O B17 6. Re1 b5 7. Bb3 d6

With eventually Black putting the other Bishop on b7, and White playing c3 and d4.

That's just my intepretation of "most standard" though. There's no such thing as a "non variation Ruy Lopez".

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Here's a nice site with a lot of theory on this opening:

http://www.correspondencechess.com/campbell/hard/h990517.htm

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This is little off topic, but I want to share with y'all.
Two great games by Ruy Lopez:

[Event "Rome"]
[Site "Rome"]
[Date "1560.??.??"]
[EventDate "1560.??.??"]
[Round "?"]
[Result "1-0"]
[White "Ruy Lopez"]
[Black "Giovanni Leonardo di Bona"]
[ECO "C20"]
[WhiteElo "?"]
[BlackElo "?"]
[PlyCount "16"]

1.e4 e5 2.Nf3 f6 3.Nxe5 fxe5 4.Qh5+ g6 5.Qxe5+ Qe7 6.Qxh8 Nf6
7.d4 Kf7 8.Bc4+ d5 9.Bxd5+ Nxd5 {and White goes on to win.} 1-0

[Event "Madrid"]
[Site "Madrid"]
[Date "1575.??.??"]
[EventDate "?"]
[Round "0.108"]
[Result "1-0"]
[White "Ruy Lopez"]
[Black "Cutri"]
[ECO "C30"]
[WhiteElo "?"]
[BlackElo "?"]
[PlyCount "24"]

1. e4 e5 2. f4 d6 3. Bc4 c6 4. Nf3 Bg4 5. fxe5 dxe5 6. Bxf7+ Kxf7
7. Nxe5+ Ke8 8. Qxg4 Nf6 9. Qe6+ Qe7 10. Qc8+ Qd8 11. Qxd8+ Kxd8
12. Nf7+ 1-0

🙂

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The Ruy Lopez has like 500 variations, but is it necessary to study the opening at all? From what I've heard, the opening moves are very simple and logical and any good player will be able to find decent moves by himself/herself.

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Originally posted by AThousandYoung
There's the Classical Variation, which sounds like a "non variation."

That's what I meant I just couldn;t think of how to put it.

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Originally posted by mateulose
The Ruy Lopez has like 500 variations, but is it necessary to study the opening at all? From what I've heard, the opening moves are very simple and logical and any good player will be able to find decent moves by himself/herself.
It's never required to study all variations of an opening. Partly because you can steer your way around the ones you haven't studied.
Say you play the Ruy as white. If you know that after 1. e4 e5 2. Nf3 Nc6 3. Bb5 a6 you are going to play Ba4 then you don't need to learn the Ruy Lopez Exchange. So really you find the variations you like and steer the game towards those and away from those you don't.
The Ruy is seen as a logical opening however it does help to know the moves. That way you know the ideas of a position already and when the opponent varies from the book you can punish them.

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I don't know the Classical Variation and don't have time to look it up. Do a Google search for it: ["Ruy Lopez" "Classical variation"] or something like that.

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