Opening · Ruy Lopez · C88

Morphy Defense · as Black

Ask the bishop where it lives, then expand with …b5.

Ruy Lopez, Morphy Defense. ...a6 asks the bishop to declare. Play the Black side.

Keep the bishop, castle, then Re1 and a typical Spanish squeeze.

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