Ruy Lopez Powerbook 2016

For the first time we have used exclusively games from the engine room on playchess.com for the Ruy Lopez Powerbook 2016. The most frequently played moves on each occasion lead us slightly surprisingly to the Marshall Attack. There 12.d4 is still the most frequently played move, but 12.d3 scores best – which is actually the same trend to be found in the games of the world’s elite players. The tremendous number of 1.1 million games in the Ruy Lopez allows meaningful statistical analyses even amongst side variations.