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Name the opening from the position
The quiz shows a position and gives you four openings to choose from. That sounds like trivia, and at first it is — but recognising which opening you are in is the skill underneath knowing what to do in it. Plans travel with structures. If you can look at a board and think “this is a Caro-Kann Advance,” you already know the pawn break you are aiming for, even in a game where nobody followed the book.
Questions are drawn from over 600 openings, from the ones every club player meets weekly — Italian, Sicilian, Queen's Gambit, London — through to the sidelines you will face perhaps twice a year and would rather not be surprised by. Play at whatever pace you like; the run records what you got right so the gaps in your recognition are visible rather than guessed at.
It is also a fast way to audit your own repertoire. Most players discover they can name every opening they play and almost none of the ones played against them, which is precisely backwards — you choose your own openings, but your opponent chooses the other half of your games.
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How many chess openings should I be able to recognise?
Recognising the twenty or so you actually meet covers the large majority of club games. Naming hundreds is a party trick; naming the ones on your board every week is useful.
Does naming openings make you better at chess?
Naming alone does not. Recognition does, because it is how you retrieve a plan: the name is a handle on a pawn structure and the set of ideas that go with it.
Do I need an account to play?
You can try the quiz without signing up. Saving your runs and tracking accuracy over time needs an account.
What should I do after the quiz?
Take an opening you failed to recognise and play through its main line until the structure is familiar, then come back. Recognition follows exposure faster than it follows memorization.
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