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Tree path 13 levels King's Pawn Game › King's Knight Opening › Normal Variation › Ruy Lopez › Morphy Defense › Ruy Lopez: Morphy Defense › Ruy Lopez: Closed › Ruy Lopez: Closed › Ruy Lopez: Closed › Ruy Lopez: Closed › Breyer Defense › Ruy Lopez: Closed, Breyer › Ruy Lopez: Closed, Breyer Defense, Zaitsev Hybrid
  1. Chess Codex
  2. King's Pawn Game C20
  3. King's Knight Opening C40
  4. Normal Variation C44
  5. Ruy Lopez C60
  6. Morphy Defense C70
  7. Ruy Lopez: Morphy Defense C78
  8. Ruy Lopez: Closed C84
  9. Ruy Lopez: Closed C88
  10. Ruy Lopez: Closed C90
  11. Ruy Lopez: Closed C92
  12. Breyer Defense C94
  13. Ruy Lopez: Closed, Breyer C95
  14. Ruy Lopez: Closed, Breyer Defense, Zaitsev Hybrid C95 you are here
C95

Ruy Lopez: Closed, Breyer Defense, Zaitsev Hybrid

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Overview

Ruy Lopez: Closed, Breyer Defense, Zaitsev Hybrid is a variation within the Open Games family, indexed as ECO C95.

The Open Games group covers open games — classical 1.e4 e5 openings where both sides contest the centre directly with pawns.

It begins with 20 plies and takes 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. h3 Nb8 10. d4 Nbd7 to reach the canonical position.

It is a variation of Ruy Lopez: Closed, Breyer, which itself descends from the root opening King's Pawn Game.

It branches into 2 notable variations — Ruy Lopez: Closed, Breyer Defense, Ruy Lopez: Closed, Breyer Defense.

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ECO code
C95
Group
Open Games (C)
Plies
20
Parent
Ruy Lopez: Closed, Breyer
Direct variations
2

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Statistics from Lichess

121,830 games · White 46.8% / Draw 6.8% / Black 46.4%

MovesGamesW / D / B
Nbd287,279
a410,439
Bg59,763
c44,171
Be32,638
dxe52,375
Bc21,849
d51,638

Source: Lichess Opening Explorer · cached 2026-09-26 03:26:31

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Variations (2)

https://chesscodex.org/openings/ruy-lopez-closed-breyer-defense-zaitsev-hybrid