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Description of  Chess Strategy Ruy Lopez: How to Beat Intermediate Chess Players (Sawyer Chess Strategy Book 1)

This Ruy Lopez shows how to win games after 1.e4 e5 2.Nf3 Nc6 3.Bb5. The Ruy Lopez is fun with either color! The chess opening book introduces Ruy Lopez with sample games. Tim Sawyer experimented with 3.Bb5 to teach strategy in 73 games with 400 diagrams. He scored +67 -3 =3 in ten-minute games vs random Advanced guests in 2021 on chess.com. Tactics are common since all the pieces tend to be active in this Spanish Game. The author uses strategy for his comments to explain whats going on. He follows any of these steps. 1. Describe the current position. 2. Imagine how to improve it. 3. Plan how to get there. The author's chess opening philosophy against intermediate players is to challenge them in the center quickly with as many pawns and pieces as possible. He prefers a classical style for this. He picks a key position every few moves to make a comment. The plan is for you to browse through the book, look at the diagrams and read the comments with ease. For those who prefer to read quickly, you can skim through the book from diagram to diagram. Note the change from the previous diagram and read any notes that interest you. From time to time, Tim adds a line of analysis. You may wish to work out some of those lines in your head, or just note that there was an alternative way to play and keep reading. Tim Sawyer has played chess for 50 years. As a Postal Chess Master, his usual opponents were rated 1800 to 2400. However, the opponents in this book are often lower to intermediate. Tim's peak Internet Chess Club blitz rating was 2492. It is assumed that you can read algebraic chess notation. The diagrams put White at the bottom of the board. Play to win! Read more