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ECO C73: Ruy Lopez: Morphy Defense

ECO C73 is part of volume C, Open Games. The Lichess chess-openings dataset files 2 named lines under it. The shortest is Ruy Lopez: Morphy Defense, Modern Steinitz Defense: 1. e4 e5 2. Nf3 Nc6 3. Bb5 a6 4. Ba4 d6 5. Bxc6+ bxc6 6. d4. All of them are lines of the Ruy Lopez: Morphy Defense.

That position has come up in 22,050 Lichess games between players rated 1600 to 2500: White won 51.9%, 6.5% were drawn and Black won 41.6%.

OpeningMovesGamesLength
Ruy Lopez: Morphy Defense, Modern Steinitz Defense 1. e4 e5 2. Nf3 Nc6 3. Bb5 a6 4. Ba4 d6 5. Bxc6+ bxc6 6. d4 22K 6 moves
Ruy Lopez: Morphy Defense, Modern Steinitz Defense 1. e4 e5 2. Nf3 Nc6 3. Bb5 a6 4. Ba4 d6 5. Bxc6+ bxc6 6. d4 f6 4,804 6 moves