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@BossOfBosses as I've said you should know the traps in the openings you play, both for your opponent's side and yours. But if you just look up traps, you might not know how to continue if your oppone…

@BossOfBosses learning traps and tricks is fun but it will have negligible (if not negative) impact on your win-rates. You won't get the positions as often as you'd like when you don't, you'll probabl…

On the topic of opening names; It's due to the fact that Black going second, the openings they initiate are usually called defenses. And openings that White play are usually called, Openings or Attack…

@Jennie2 In Analysis board there's a book icon next at the bottom right of the chess board. Clicking that will bring up the common moves and the games on that particular position depending on the data…

@Jennie2 in the end it doesn't matter if the opening is theoretically sound, bringing your Queen out early in the game increases your chances to blunder.

Don't bring your Queen out in the opening, it can be attacked.

@royalblue04 Stockfish's play is completely unnatural and I don't think choosing different levels will make it helpful for a beginner to get any real game experience. Stockfish can for instance defend…

@LittleJennyWren You might have played it but only games with average rating over 1600 make it to this database. So, your game is not on there.

B27 Sicilian Defense: Frederico Variation (aka Sicilian Fred) 1.e4 c5 2.Nf3 g6 3.d4 f5 (Stockfish evaluation +2.7) There are only 3 games on Lichess database with this opening.

I thought this thread was about london players for a second there. @pawnmulch "you shoulda just resigned" Resigning would encourage that kind of behavior.