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ECO C90: Ruy Lopez: Closed

ECO C90 is part of volume C, Open Games. The Lichess chess-openings dataset files 4 named lines under it. The shortest is Ruy Lopez: Closed: 1. e4 e5 2. Nf3 Nc6 3. Bb5 a6 4. Ba4 Nf6 5. O-O Be7 6. Re1 b5 7. Bb3 d6 8. c3 O-O. All of them are lines of the Ruy Lopez: Closed.

That position has come up in 783,961 Lichess games between players rated 1600 to 2500: White won 48.9%, 6.1% were drawn and Black won 45.0%.

OpeningMovesGamesLength
Ruy Lopez: Closed 1. e4 e5 2. Nf3 Nc6 3. Bb5 a6 4. Ba4 Nf6 5. O-O Be7 6. Re1 b5 7. Bb3 d6 8. c3 O-O 784K 8 moves
Ruy Lopez: Closed, Lutikov Variation 1. e4 e5 2. Nf3 Nc6 3. Bb5 a6 4. Ba4 Nf6 5. O-O Be7 6. Re1 b5 7. Bb3 d6 8. c3 O-O 9. Bc2 2,762 9 moves
Ruy Lopez: Closed, Pilnik Variation 1. e4 e5 2. Nf3 Nc6 3. Bb5 a6 4. Ba4 Nf6 5. O-O Be7 6. Re1 b5 7. Bb3 O-O 8. d3 d6 9. c3 159K 9 moves
Ruy Lopez: Closed, Suetin Variation 1. e4 e5 2. Nf3 Nc6 3. Bb5 a6 4. Ba4 Nf6 5. O-O Be7 6. Re1 b5 7. Bb3 d6 8. c3 O-O 9. a3 3,248 9 moves