Ruy Lopez

English

	a	b	c	d	e	f	g	h
8									8
7									7
6									6
5									5
4									4
3									3
2									2
1									1
	a	b	c	d	e	f	g	h

Moves: 1.e4 e5 2.Nf3 Nc6 3.Bb5

Etymology

Named for Ruy López de Segura, a Spanish priest who wrote a book about chess openings in 1561.

Proper noun

Ruy Lopez

1. (chess) A common chess opening, an Open Game characterized by the moves 1.e4 e5 2.Nf3 Nc6 3.Bb5, in which White moves king's bishop to the fifth rank.

Synonyms

• Spanish Game
• Spanish Opening
• Spanish Torture

Translations

a common chess opening

• Dutch: Spaans (nl) n, Spaanse opening f
• French: partie espagnole f
• German: Spanische Partie (de) f, Spanische Eröffnung f, Spanisch (de) f
• Norwegian: spansk åpning (no) m
• Polish: partia hiszpańska (pl) f
• Russian: испа́нская па́ртия f (ispánskaja pártija)
• Spanish: apertura española f

Further reading

• Ruy Lopez on Wikipedia.Wikipedia