Hansen/Lakdawala: Origins: Ruy Lopez: Book II: Specialty Lines after 3...a6 improvers Traditional Main Line with 5

Traditional Main Line with 5

d7-d5 for Black

It shows how the reader can enable their intuition to reach its full potential and how to learn to distinguish between the positions in which one should rely on intuition and those in which one should be analytical

The Opening

Charles V of Delft is a Dutch chess teacher and chess organizer

Hansen/Lakdawala: Origins: Ruy Lopez: Book II: Specialty Lines after 3...a6 improvers Traditional Main Line with 5Today's openings are reruns of an old sitcom that we have all seen a hundred times before, while for players in the past, life on the chess board was wild, unexplored territory. Learning the details of that gigantic entity, the Ruy Lopez (from either side), is on par with the time that hateful 7th grade teacher made us memorize the capital cities of every country in the world in alphabetical order! The Origins series is an attempt at a "big picture"