Karpov and his Ruy Lopez | Mastering the Middlegame - GM Ben Finegold

Grandmaster Ben Finegold demonstrates why black should never play the closed defence against Anatoly Karpov's Ruy Lopez. These three games ended in the middlegame.

2016.05.31
Anatoly Karpov vs Boris Spassky, It, URS (1973): C94 Ruy Lopez, closed, Breyer defence
http://www.chessgames.com/perl/chessgame?gid=1067749
Anatoly Karpov vs Wolfgang Unzicker, Milan (1975): C97 Ruy Lopez, closed, Chigorin defence
http://www.chessgames.com/perl/chessgame?gid=1067875
Anatoly Karpov vs Alexander Beliavsky, Biel 55/356 [Karpov,An (1992)
http://www.chessgames.com/perl/chessgame?gid=1068924

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