My Secrets in the Ruy Lopez - Lajos Portisch

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Last updated 05 março 2025

My Secrets in the Ruy Lopez - Lajos Portisch

My Secrets in the Ruy Lopez by Lajos PortischUnpublished ideas and analysis from decades elite-level chess It’s major news when a legendary player reveals his opening secrets. And when he has rarely written about his games or preparation methods, and was famous for meticulous, ahead-of-his-time opening analysis, it makes it a true publishing event. Yet that is what eight-time world championship candidate Lajos Portisch has done. In this book, he opens his extensive opening files and presents the most important games and unused novelties in the Ruy Lopez (or Spanish Game). He also explains the strategies and ideas behind these lines, and places the key games in their historical settings. Anecdotes abound, as do reflections on his key rivals, including Fischer, Karpov, Tal, Larsen and Smyslov. This is also a thoroughly modern work. As well as drawing upon games from