See the moves and win rates at your rating from 17.4 million Lichess games, with 81 opening guides and a spaced-repetition trainer.
- 17.4Mrated Lichess games
- 81opening guides
- 4rating levels
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Arrow thickness is how often players at that rating choose the move, read from the same 17.4 million Lichess games as Fewmoves.
Pick your rating and see the moves your opponents really play
- Pick your ratingTap your level under ‘Lichess rating’ above the board, and the table and arrows switch to the moves players at that level chose, with how often.
- Play a moveMove a piece or tap a move in the table to go to the next position; named positions show the opening name and a link to its guide.
- Read a guideOpen one of the 81 guides under ‘Openings’ for the main line, plans for both sides, variations, traps and a table of replies by rating.
- PracticePress ‘Practice as White’ or ‘Practice as Black’ at the end of a guide; your opponent answers with moves really played at your rating, and wrong answers go into your review.
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What it checks and discloses
The numbers are our own count of the October 2026 rated games Lichess publishes, and every line in the guides is played through with chess.js when the site is built, with traps marked as mate checked to be checkmate.
The numbers are our own count of the games Lichess publishes
Rules and sourcesChecked Nov 4, 2026
- Games
- We counted 17,395,175 blitz, rapid and classical games from the first part of the October 2026 rated games file Lichess publishes. Bullet, ultrabullet and correspondence are left out.Lichess game database (CC0)
- Rating levels
- Games are grouped by the average of both ratings: under 1200, 1200–1599, 1600–1999 and 2000+. These are Lichess ratings, which usually run higher than Chess.com ratings for the same player.About Fewmoves
- What is shown
- The first 12 moves (24 plies), positions reached in at least 60 games and moves played in at least 6.About Fewmoves
- Opening names
- Names and ECO codes come from the chess-openings list Lichess publishes (3,865 entries, CC0).lichess-org/chess-openings
- Guide lines
- Every main line, variation and trap in the guides is played move by move with chess.js each time the site is built, and traps marked ‘ends in mate’ are checked to end in checkmate.chess.js
- What stays on your device
- Your rating level and practice record are kept in this browser only and never sent to a server. There is no sign-up or login.Fewmoves Privacy Policy (the three things it stores)
The most played move is not always the best move. Win rates are results between players at that level and can differ from an engine evaluation.
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The opening guides grew from 31 to 81
Added 50 guides, such as the Catalan, Grünfeld, Bird and Grob, so every opening family with games on Lichess now has a guide.
Rewrote the guide sentences about win rates and popularity to match our own counts, such as the Najdorf’s 6th move and how the Englund scores.
Corrected the Italian guide on when 4.Ng5 works and on the 3...Nd4 trap.
Published a guide on which openings rise and fall as ratings go up.
Launched the explorer, 31 opening guides and the spaced-repetition trainer in English and Korean.
