Basics of The Ruy Lopez | Chess Video Lecture | Learn to Play Chess: From a Novice to a Fierce Competitor - Hobbies

hi my name is Rebecca taxman I'm with
chess NYC and I'm going to talk to you
today about the reuleaux pets the rui
lopez is one of the oldest and most
important openings in chats first of all
this opening is not only just played by
beginners this is also played by the top
chess players such as Magnus Carlsen and
Bobby Fischer but let's learn the basics
of the rui lopez
so to start there are three important
principles that we want to focus on at
the beginning of a game first in
principle that we need to understand is
these four squares these are the center
of the board I like to call these the
super squares within the super squares
the idea is we want to try and get our
pawns towards the super squares as white
jumps to e4 black is going to attack
back with E 5 the Rui Lopez then starts
with Knight f3 attacking the pawn on e5
black's typical defense in this position
and probably his best defense is knight
c6 defending the pawn and developing a
piece getting into our second principle
which is development now there are two
variations in the reuleaux PES there is
the Spanish variation and the Italian
variation in the Italian variation the
bishop goes to c4 in the Spanish
variation the bishop goes to b5 today
I'm going to talk to you about the
Spanish Bishop b5 is our next attack so
black is not too concerned about about
white taking here what blacks next move
typically is either just to develop its
Knight get your Knights out first or
develop a bishop let's go with
developing the Knight to f6 and now
white decides to play d3 defending its
pawn chain and getting ready to castle
there's a number of variations that
black can play a typical variation would
be Bishop c5 attacking the f2 square
white ready to castle castles black also
ready to castle castles now there's an
important move here c3
the idea behind c3 is that we want to
keep this bishop if black plays a a six
which is a typical move we want to keep
this bishop and push it back to a4 if
they come again with b5 we now have a
tuck away square that we can put our
Bishop in and get it ready for an attack
towards the King and this is all typical
standard opening then we can have black
create its pawn chain getting ready to
open up either develop its bishop on the
King side or fianchetto its bishop now
an important move is rook e1 controlling
the center file say white decides their
black decides to put its bishop on g4 we
have now a conundrum we need to figure
out where to place this night because
our knight cannot come to its typical
square on c3 and we never want to put
our Knights on the rim because the
knight on our image is kind of grim we
always want to develop our Knight
towards the center so we are going to
create what's called the Russian Knights
and put it on d2 black is going to
continue with its opening and then the
idea is white is going to create an
attack by bringing its Knights on to its
King side pushing away blacks fish up
and using its knights bringing its Queen
and eventually to create an attack over
on the King side the idea here is white
is going to create a strong attack on
the King side where black is going to
try and create an attack on the Queen
side white typically does not need to
worry about this attack
and focus mostly on its attack over here
and that is the basic of the rui lopez