Ruy Lopez that after the common retreat 4.Ba4, Black will have the possibility of breaking a future pin on his by playing ...b5. White must take some care not to fall into the Ruy Lopez, Noah's Ark Trap, in which Black traps White's on the b3-square with a ...a6, ...b5, and ...c4 pawn advance on the . Ercole del Rio, in his 1750 treatise "Sopra il giuoco degli Scacchi, Osservazioni pratiche dell'anonimo Modenese" (On the game of Chess, practical Observations by an anonymous Modenese), was the first author to mention 3...a6. However, the move became popular after it was played by Paul
Ruy Pérez Ponce de León was there given eventual lordship over the city after its conquest from the Moors. Ruy died in 1295, two days after being injured in the Battle of Iznalloz against the forces of the Kingdom of Granada under Muhammad II, in a small town of the same name north of Granada. Ruy Pérez Ponce de León Ruy Pérez Ponce de León or Rodrigo Pérez Ponce de León (b. ? - d. 1295) was a Spanish noble of the House of Ponce de León, in the service of the Kingdom of Castile. He was the 15th Grand Master of the Order of