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ECO C61: Ruy Lopez: Bird Variation

ECO C61 is part of volume C, Open Games. The Lichess chess-openings dataset files 2 named lines under it. The shortest is Ruy Lopez: Bird Variation: 1. e4 e5 2. Nf3 Nc6 3. Bb5 Nd4. All of them are lines of the Ruy Lopez: Bird Variation.

That position has come up in 2,854,407 Lichess games between players rated 1600 to 2500: White won 51.6%, 4.2% were drawn and Black won 44.2%.

OpeningMovesGamesLength
Ruy Lopez: Bird Variation 1. e4 e5 2. Nf3 Nc6 3. Bb5 Nd4 2.9M 3 moves
Ruy Lopez: Bird Variation, Paulsen Variation 1. e4 e5 2. Nf3 Nc6 3. Bb5 Nd4 4. Nxd4 exd4 5. O-O Ne7 12K 5 moves