I am looking for a Chess Opening Explorer similar to the one on Chess.com but with a bigger game pool. I really like the statistics portion of learning and want to delve deeper into it.
I already have a membership on Chess.com and have bought a Chess Opening Explorer on the App Store plus a few free apps.All are really good but not big enough game samples. There are so many games played on Chess.com every day that there should be huge game samples available.
Thanks
Or is it just me
I've tried looked it up but I still can't find it. It brings out a bishop and your queen to opposing sides of the board. It starts by moving the pawn in front of your king. It also puts a knight where that pawn was after you bring out your queen and bishop.
Some background : I have been playing chess for a little over 2 years, and during that time I have improved from roughly 1000-1500 FIDE (approximate, 1500-2020 lichess classical). For pretty much the entire time, I played the French against 1.e4 and the Gruenfeld against 1.d4.
I heard Yasser Seirawan say in an interview that people should begin with classical openings (1..., d5 and 1..., e5), to learn strong principles and to understand why black can't just meet white head on and achieve everything he would like. As such, I made a complete switch to the QGD and 1..., e5. However, I have really struggled with the change, even after ~5 months. I feel okay with 1..., e5, though 1..., d5 has given me a hard time.
Over the past 2 months, I have scored 0.5/6 against opponents who opened with 1.d4 and followed shortly with c4 (some 1. d4 d5 2. Nf3 move orders). For contrast, I have scored 3.5/4 with the black pieces against all other openings (including 1.d4 without c4), and 6/9 with the white pieces.
Clearly, 1.d4 d5 2.c4 hits a weak point in my chess, I suspect the main issue is the somewhat passive nature of the positions, which I am not familiar with. I have spent a fair bit of time studying these games, and the common trend is that I "self-destruct" at some point. In general, I achieve fine positions out of the opening, though often my position will "feel" somewhat shaky. Objectively I am okay, but I find the positions difficult to play and requiring accurate play.
I would be curious to hear your experience, and any suggestions! Please include the "path" you took for your repertoire and your current rating!
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I play on Lichess 99.5% of the time, but occasionally play some games on Chess.com so that I can know what my Chess.com rating is.
I'm around 2050 Lichess and 1700-1750 Chess.com and have noticed an incredible difference in the amount of opening knowledge between the 2 sites. I play 10+0 on both.
Every game I played today on Chess.com (and I've noticed this in the past too), my opponents made almost random pawn moves (my last game went: 1. e4 e6 2. d4 c6 3. Nc3 a5 4. Nf3 b5 for example). They then go on to play fairly fine for the rest of the game, but this never happens to me on Lichess. So strange. Different environment I guess.
That being said, I lost every game I played on chess.com today, dropping 50 points just like that :(
Has anyone else noticed the opening differences between the 2 sites?
Even if you don’t play the opening, feel free to share it if you think it would be a good one. Also keep in mind the main time control would be 5+0.
I was watching an intro to a course on the King's Indian Defense. The teacher mentioned how taxing the opening was even for Garry Kasparov who also paired it with the Najdorf. That he realized it would be better if he stopped putting all that time into memorizing the KID and put his time into the Najdorf. I understand how this makes sense at the supergm level. But is it ill advised for me to consider studying both openings as my main defence against e4 and d4? Should I be investing my time into lines that aren't as sharp? Ideally would I have higher success rate getting to GM if I studied simpler openings?(I understand how unrealistic it is to get GM if you're past your teens. And also how unimportant openings are compared to endgames and such. Just a theoretical question here.)
TL;DR: I created a website (chessmeup.com) that analyzes all of your chess openings on chess.com and tells you which ones you use most often and which ones you’re most successful at. It goes into a fair amount of depth, providing data from very broad openings (king’s pawn, queen’s pawn, other) all the way to the extremely detailed ones (i.e. Italian Game Two Knights Modern Bishops Opening). Mobile version isn’t really optimized yet; if possible use the desktop version!
Background
A while ago someone posted that they had just realized they kept losing to a specific kind of opening and that after practicing that one massively they saw a huge increase in the number of games they won (I’d link to the post but can’t seem to find it anymore).
I immediately thought this was a great idea but also then realized it would mean having to comb through all of my previous games to figure out what opening I’d used or played against, which would take ages. What made it even less appealing was that as a beginner it would’ve taken me a long time to even work out what opening I’d used in each game.
Basically out of laziness I started working on this tool/website that would do all the work for me (never mind that doing this ended up taking considerably more time than doing it manually would’ve taken). Since I’m pretty happy with the result and I’ve been a longtime lurker here I thought I’d share in case anyone finds it helpful as well: the final result is available here.
How it works
It takes in a chess.com username (if people seem to like it I’ll try making a lichess version as well), a date range, and a time control and gives you a report showing you how often you’ve used various openings and how successful you’ve been with them. You can also access a full report that goes into a little more detail and shows you the breakdown of even more specific openings.
This is my first time coding a website from scratch, so I’m sure there are a few bugs in it which if you spot I’d appreciate if you could point out. There are also a few weird bugs in the chess.com API, which unfortunately are beyond my control. Finally, if there are any features you think would be cool let me know and I’ll see what I can do :)
Note: since all of your stats on chess.com are public, you can use anyone’s username, so you can use this to look at what the GMs are doing but also, if you play against a friend regularly, to identify thei
... keep reading on reddit ➡list from http://ludus123.blogspot.com/2013/11/list-of-chess-openings-named-after.html?m=1 :
- Black Lion Defense 1.e4 d6 2.d4 Nf6 3.Nc3 Nbd7;[14]
- Black Mustang Defense 1.Nf3 Nc6;[15]
- Bullfrog Gambit 1.d4 Nf6 2.g4;[16]
- Canard Opening 1.d4 Nf6 2.f4;[17]
- Chameleon variation of the Sicilian Defence 1. e4 c5 2. Nc3 Nc6 3. Nge2[18]
- Chameleon variation of the Slav Defense 1. d4 d5 2. c4 c6 3. Nf3 Nf6 4. Nc3 a6 [19]
- Clam Variation 1.e4 e5 2.d3;[20]
- Crab Opening 1.a4 e5 2.h4;[21]
- Dragon Variation of the Sicilian Defence 1.e4 c5 2.Nf3 d6 3.d4 cxd4 4.Nxd4 Nf6 5.Nc3 g6;[22]
- Double Duck Formation 1.f4 f5 2.d4 d5;[23]
- Elephant Gambit 1.e4 e5 2.Nf3 d5;[24]
- English Orangutan 1.c4 Nf6 2.b4;[25]
- English Rat 1.d4 d6 2.c4 e5;[26]
- Fried Fox Variation 1.e4 f6 2.d4 Kf7;[27]
- Giraffe Attack of the [Vienna Game](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vienna_Gam
App crashes when opening r/chess So far, I haven't found any other subs that crash the app, only r/chess. Using the search function, I can open single posts posted within the sub but I can't go to the subreddit itself.
Scenario (steps to reproduce)
- Via subreddit list, click on r/chess
Result(s) App crashes
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