C89 is the opening Ruy Lopez: Marshall Attack of the volume C · Open games: 16 half-moves to the position in the diagram, 9 variations in the ECO table.
What the games say
1,109 games in the collections, from 1918 to 2022. Mean rating of the games with ratings: 2518.
White wins 30 %, draws 47 %, Black wins 23 %
Most games: Adams, Michael (35), Nunn, John DM (31), Geller, Efim P (27), Hebden, Mark (26), Anand, Viswanathan (25)
All 9 variations
- Ruy Lopez: Marshall Attack 1.e4 e5 2.♘f3 ♘c6 3.♗b5 a6 4.♗a4 ♘f6 5.O-O ♗e7 6.♖e1 b5 7.♗b3 O-O 8.c3 d5
- Ruy Lopez: Marshall Attack 1.e4 e5 2.♘f3 ♘c6 3.♗b5 a6 4.♗a4 ♘f6 5.O-O ♗e7 6.♖e1 b5 7.♗b3 O-O 8.c3 d5 9.exd5 ♘xd5 10.a4 ♗b7
- Ruy Lopez: Marshall Attack, Main Line 1.e4 e5 2.♘f3 ♘c6 3.♗b5 a6 4.♗a4 ♘f6 5.O-O ♗e7 6.♖e1 b5 7.♗b3 O-O 8.c3 d5 9.exd5 ♘xd5 10.♘xe5 ♘xe5 11.♖xe5 c6 12.d4
- Ruy Lopez: Marshall Attack, Main Line, Spassky Variation 1.e4 e5 2.♘f3 ♘c6 3.♗b5 a6 4.♗a4 ♘f6 5.O-O ♗e7 6.♖e1 b5 7.♗b3 O-O 8.c3 d5 9.exd5 ♘xd5 10.♘xe5 ♘xe5 11.♖xe5 c6 12.d4 ♗d6 13.♖e1 ♕h4 14.g3 ♕h3 15.♗e3 ♗g4 16.♕d3 ♖ae8 17.♘d2 ♖e6 18.a4 ♕h5
- Ruy Lopez: Marshall Attack, Modern Main Line 1.e4 e5 2.♘f3 ♘c6 3.♗b5 a6 4.♗a4 ♘f6 5.O-O ♗e7 6.♖e1 b5 7.♗b3 O-O 8.c3 d5 9.exd5 ♘xd5 10.♘xe5 ♘xe5 11.♖xe5 c6 12.d4 ♗d6 13.♖e1 ♕h4 14.g3 ♕h3
- Ruy Lopez: Marshall Attack, Modern Variation 1.e4 e5 2.♘f3 ♘c6 3.♗b5 a6 4.♗a4 ♘f6 5.O-O ♗e7 6.♖e1 b5 7.♗b3 O-O 8.c3 d5 9.exd5 ♘xd5 10.♘xe5 ♘xe5 11.♖xe5 c6
- Ruy Lopez: Marshall Attack, Original Marshall Attack 1.e4 e5 2.♘f3 ♘c6 3.♗b5 a6 4.♗a4 ♘f6 5.O-O ♗e7 6.♖e1 b5 7.♗b3 O-O 8.c3 d5 9.exd5 ♘xd5 10.♘xe5 ♘xe5 11.♖xe5 ♘f6
- Ruy Lopez: Marshall Attack, Re3 Variation 1.e4 e5 2.♘f3 ♘c6 3.♗b5 a6 4.♗a4 ♘f6 5.O-O ♗e7 6.♖e1 b5 7.♗b3 O-O 8.c3 d5 9.exd5 ♘xd5 10.♘xe5 ♘xe5 11.♖xe5 c6 12.♗xd5 cxd5 13.d4 ♗d6 14.♖e3
- Ruy Lopez: Marshall Attack, Steiner Variation 1.e4 e5 2.♘f3 ♘c6 3.♗b5 a6 4.♗a4 ♘f6 5.O-O ♗e7 6.♖e1 b5 7.♗b3 O-O 8.c3 d5 9.exd5 e4