Ruy Lopez Books

If you are not looking for Ruy Lopez books or DVDs to buy, you are most probably interested in some of the free PGN databases available on the Internet. Even the free databases can be of considerable use when studying an opening.

Unfortunately, these free collections of chess games are usually uncommented. At least for a woodpusher like me, it is better to study an opening under the guidance of an international master or a grandmaster who has carefully chosen the most important games to study and commented them. Without the comments I would probably not grasp half of the important ideas in any given position.


Anyway, you'll find links to the different PGN collections further down on the right sidebar. I try to add new files and links to the section whenever I have time to seek for new PGN files. If you don't yet have any chess database to use with the PGN collections, you should first try SCID. It is a free and open source chess database that is good enough for most club players.

If you want something more professional, you should consider ordering the Chessbase 10 Starter Kit from Amazon. It will be more than enough for any chess enthusiast!