searching for a particular opening in a game list

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HurtU

Am I missing something or does chess.com not show what opening was played when you look at your (or another's player's) list of games played, like lichess does?

Sometimes, after I play somebody, I'll examine the games they've played because I'm interested in how they have played that same opening against other players. Let's say they like to play the Benoni Defense as black. I just played the white side of a Benoni against them and I am impressed on how well they played it. I look at their list of games, interested in only those games in which they played the Benoni as black, and I have no way of  knowing which games were a Benoni. 

Am I missing something? Is there a way of doing this that I'm missing?

Thanks!

referendarius

Hi HurtU,

One way you might do this would be to use Learn > Explorer.

Where it says Master Games, select instead My Games (or search by another username).

It is not exactly like searching by opening, but you can play the moves out to reach the games in the positions you are looking for. Hope it helps.

Best.

HurtU

I understand what you're saying but that doesn't quite accomplish what I'm trying to do. I want to see all the games played by a specific player that involve a particular opening. I know how to view the list of any player's games, but there is no way of knowing which games were, for instance, a Benoni Defense. 

referendarius

I think if you go to the Explorer and search by a username, then play a move on the board (such as 1.d4), you will then see an option on the right "View all games from the current position." Then there will be a dropdown menu on the right for Openings. You can then select Benoni and click Search.

HurtU

That worked! Thanks. At first it seemed like a convoluted way to perform a relatively simple task - but once I tried it a few times, I got the hang of it and it actually works quite well.