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Subject: Re: Spanish opening (ruy lopez)

Author: Kim Roper Jensen

Date: 13:00:41 08/07/04

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On August 07, 2004 at 15:16:30, Frank Naahielua wrote:

>Hi;
>
>I'm new to this and also to the game, so please bear with me.
>
>Ques;
>In a book on openings I found that in the Spanish Opening White has a pawn at e4
>and by the end of the fourth move it is threatend by Black's Knight at f6.
>White's fifth move is to Castle. Why wouldn't Black immediately take the pawn
>instead of 5 ...Be7? Seems like a freebie!

heres link with a bunch of games
http://www.chessgames.com/perl/chessopening?eco=C83

its common opening theory lots of games have been played in this variation

/kim



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