Chess Openings: How to Play the Ruy Lopez!

18.01.2023

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Here’s another “2-Minute Openings Drill” with IM Rensch, giving you all you need to know about the Ruy Lopez (Spanish) in under 3 minutes. Enjoy and sign up today for more chess videos and lectures by the world’s leading chess instructors.

20 Comments

  1. Very nice, exactly what I was looking for. Fast and to the point. Great for learning the basics of the openings.

  2. Im proud of myself today, I played the zaitsev variation today after running the main line twice. I also learned that I need to improve on my middle game

  3. The Ruy Lopez is my favorite opening. Thanks Daniel!

  4. at 1:41 why not move knight to g5 to begin with check?

  5. Totally lost by 1:36 way too fast for a novice, can you recommend any books or other tutorials?

  6. indeed it was too fast watch the video again or go find another ruy lopez video

  7. Fast is good. If I need more time to learn it, I'll watch it again. If it's one I know, just hearing the main ideas presented quickly is much better. I dislike listening to a slow lecture on a topic I may know about.

  8. 2.5 minutes = 2.5 decades to learn!

  9. don't worry you did a great job 🙂

  10. Well spoken about the moves y'all done y'all homework

  11. My strongest opening, although I tend to blunder at least once in the middle game. I barely ever lose the whole game (meaning disadvantages the whole game) with the Ruy Lopez. Thank you!

  12. too fast ._. 30 sec- 1 minute more would be better

  14. 1:00 why wouldn't the Knight take the pawn? He could move his bishop with his next move…

  15. Way too fast. Although it is possible to watch this video many times, I think most people would rather watch it only once, which would be at a slower, easier to follow pace.

  16. Ever since watching Daniel being cheerful commentating games, it feels awkward listening to him with the serious tone

  17. Weird seeing Danny with that amount of hair

  18. I was following this on a chessboard, I get stumped on 1.e4 openings so I'll aim to develop my understanding of this to add to my opening repetoire

  19. Only 35 comments and the video is 11 years old. Let me fix that. (36th comment)

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