Exact catalogue record
Ruy Lopez: Steinitz DefenseC62
Ruy Lopez: Steinitz Defense is the source catalogue’s name for the exact position reached by the move order below. It is filed under ECO C62, in volume C (open games after 1.e4 e5 plus the French Defense).
On this page
- ECO code
- C62
- Opening family
- Ruy Lopez
- Recorded half-moves
- 7
- Last numbered move
- 4
- Side to move
- Black
- Castling rights
- White kingside, White queenside, Black kingside, Black queenside
- Material
- Material is level
- FEN
- r1bqkbnr/ppp2ppp/2np4/1B2p3/3PP3/5N2/PPP2PPP/RNBQK2R b KQkq - 0 4
Scope of this record
This page preserves a source name, one exact legal move sequence and its resulting FEN. It does not claim that the sequence is best, common or strategically self-contained. Opening names can cover several move orders; the links below report only parent, continuation and family relationships present in this catalogue.
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Comes from
Main continuations
- Ruy Lopez: Steinitz Defense, Center Gambit (C62)
- Ruy Lopez: Steinitz Defense, Semi-Duras Variation (C62)
- Ruy Lopez: Steinitz Defense, Nimzowitsch Attack (C62)
- Ruy Lopez: Berlin Defense, Tarrasch Trap (C66)
Other records under Ruy Lopez
These records share the source catalogue’s family label; that relationship alone does not imply the same plans or resulting position.
- Ruy Lopez (C60)
- Ruy Lopez: Alapin Defense (C60)
- Ruy Lopez: Alapin Defense, Alapin Gambit (C60)
- Ruy Lopez: Brentano Gambit (C60)
- Ruy Lopez: Bulgarian Variation (C60)
- Ruy Lopez: Cozio Defense (C60)
- Ruy Lopez: Cozio Defense, Paulsen Variation (C60)
- Ruy Lopez: Cozio Defense, Tartakower Gambit (C60)
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