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ECO C69: Ruy Lopez: Exchange Variation

ECO C69 is part of volume C, Open Games. The Lichess chess-openings dataset files 5 named lines under it. The shortest is Ruy Lopez: Exchange Variation, Normal Variation: 1. e4 e5 2. Nf3 Nc6 3. Bb5 a6 4. Bxc6 dxc6 5. O-O. All of them are lines of the Ruy Lopez: Exchange Variation.

That position has come up in 2,085,462 Lichess games between players rated 1600 to 2500: White won 50.9%, 5.9% were drawn and Black won 43.3%.

OpeningMovesGamesLength
Ruy Lopez: Exchange Variation, Normal Variation 1. e4 e5 2. Nf3 Nc6 3. Bb5 a6 4. Bxc6 dxc6 5. O-O 2.1M 5 moves
Ruy Lopez: Exchange Variation, Bronstein Variation 1. e4 e5 2. Nf3 Nc6 3. Bb5 a6 4. Bxc6 dxc6 5. O-O Qd6 46K 5 moves
Ruy Lopez: Exchange Variation, Gligoric Variation 1. e4 e5 2. Nf3 Nc6 3. Bb5 a6 4. Bxc6 dxc6 5. O-O f6 345K 5 moves
Ruy Lopez: Exchange Variation, King's Bishop Variation 1. e4 e5 2. Nf3 Nc6 3. Bb5 a6 4. Bxc6 dxc6 5. O-O Bd6 762K 5 moves
Ruy Lopez: Exchange Variation, Alapin Gambit 1. e4 e5 2. Nf3 Nc6 3. Bb5 a6 4. Bxc6 dxc6 5. O-O Bg4 6. h3 h5 207K 6 moves