This Week's ChessVideos Show: Quick Ruy XXXIV: The Breyer Variation
At last, the grand finale of the Quick Ruy series! The Breyer System (1.e4 e5 2.Nf3 Nc6 3.Bb5 a6 4.Ba4 Nf6 5.0-0 Be7 6.Re1 b5 7.Bb3 d6 8.c3 0-0 9.h3 Nb8) is especially popular nowadays, and with high profile authors like Larry Kaufman and Boris Avrukh (forthcoming) advocating it, that is unlikely to change in the near future. So in this week's show I look at what several sources say, both pro and con, and do my best to both offer improvements for both sides and to help viewers understand what sorts of things they ought to do, to make sense of the mass of theory.
After 34 shows, I hope that anyone who wants to play the Ruy with White will have all the external tools necessary to play it with success, and likewise for those who wish to play one variation or another with Black. And for those of you who won't touch the Ruy with either color, there's good news too: the series is over!
Reader Comments (4)
Where is Avrukh going to be advocating the Breyer Ruy Lopez? I know Kaufman already did in his book, but Avrukh?
[DM: I thought for sure I had seen it on the Quality Chess site, but I'm scrolling through the pages of their blog and don't see it mentioned in any of the publication schedules. I really felt sure I had seen such an announcement somewhere, but I guess I'm wrong.]
I didn't know Avrukh is planning a book on this...scanned the intertubes and found not a mention...lol. I have the Kaufman book, but somehow don't trust it in this regard...
D.M. Perhaps you mistook Avrukh for Mikhalevski who is writing a book on the Open Spanish which is forthcoming from Quality Chess.
[DM: Nope. I may have made a mistake, but that wasn't it! (I'm sure Mikhalevski's book will be a good one - I've thought well of his work on the 1.e4 e5 page on ChessPublishing.com over the years, and he has long been an Open Ruy specialist.)]
http://www.chesspub.com/cgi-bin/yabb2/YaBB.pl?num=1346461504/0#0
[DM: Maybe that's the answer. And who knows, maybe this will put a bug in Aagaard's and Avrukh's respective ears, and it'll happen!]