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Ruy Lopez:Marshall Attack

1. e4 e5 2. Nf3 Nc6 3. Bb5 a6 4. Ba4 Nf6 5. O-O Be7 6. Re1 b5 7. Bb3 O-O 8. c3 d5

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White to move

Legal moves
26
Games in the next 4 moves
943,703
Different positions among them
322,153
Named lines from here
8

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Frank Marshall’s pawn sacrifice for a kingside attack. He unveiled it against José Raúl Capablanca in New York in 1918 — and lost — but it became one of Black’s most respected weapons.

It is reached after 16 moves: 1. e4 e5 2. Nf3 Nc6 3. Bb5 a6 4. Ba4 Nf6 5. O-O Be7 6. Re1 b5 7. Bb3 O-O 8. c3 d5. It is a line of the Ruy Lopez.

White is to move and has 26 legal moves. Over the next four moves — two for each side — the game can branch into 943,703 different games. Those games reach 322,153 different positions: most positions can be reached in more than one way, 2.9 on average.

The Lichess opening list names 8 further lines after this position, such as Modern Variation (9. exd5 Nxd5 10. Nxe5 Nxe5 11. Rxe5 c6) and Steiner Variation (9. exd5 e4).

Map of every game of the next four moves after the Ruy Lopez: Marshall Attack
Every game of the next four moves from this position, as the map draws it. Each ring is one more move; the outer ring holds all 943,703 games.

Move by move

  1. 1. e4King's Pawn Game
  2. 1... e5King's Pawn Game
  3. 2. Nf3King's Knight Opening
  4. 2... Nc6King's Knight Opening: Normal Variation
  5. 3. Bb5Ruy Lopez
  6. 3... a6Ruy Lopez: Morphy Defense
  7. 4. Ba4—
  8. 4... Nf6—
  9. 5. O-ORuy Lopez: Morphy Defense
  10. 5... Be7Ruy Lopez: Closed
  11. 6. Re1—
  12. 6... b5—
  13. 7. Bb3Ruy Lopez: Closed
  14. 7... O-ORuy Lopez: Closed
  15. 8. c3—
  16. 8... d5Ruy Lopez: Marshall Attack

Named lines from here

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