Pavlovic: The Modernized Open Ruy Lopez improvers It would be hard to

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Pavlovic: The Modernized Open Ruy Lopez improvers It would be hard toThe positions arising from the Open Spanish contain ideas so different from the usual Ruy Lopez that I sometimes wonder whether it should really be considered part of it at all. It is an open game with unbalanced structures and sharp play but compared to the Sicilian, for instance for which the previous description would also apply, there is an important difference; There is a certain degree of stability and solidity in the Open Spanish which