Last Week's ChessVideos Show: The Quick Ruy, Part XXI
Monday, February 20, 2012 at 8:10AM
Dennis Monokroussos in Archangelsk Variation, ChessVideos Presentations, Ruy Lopez

The show was a little late getting posted, and I'm reporting it a bit later still because I was out of town playing in a tournament, but that's okay - it means those of you who wait for the notification on here will have two ChessVideos shows this week from me rather than just one!

The topic for this show is again the Archangelsk Variation, but this time we cover the 7.d3 line that makes the variation somewhat problematic for Black. White leaves Black's bishop on b7 biting on granite, as the old phrase puts it, and as he didn't even have to spend a tempo on h3 to persuade it to go there White is doing a bit better than usual for a typical Closed Ruy. It's playable for Black, but White's results have been very good and many fans of the Archangelsk have migrated to the Neo-Archangelsk with 6...Bc5. (We'll cover that in forthcoming Quick Ruy shows.)

The aforementioned video is here and is available to all for free (a one-time only free registration is required) and on demand for at least the next month or so.

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