When I analyse a game I played I looked at this position. The opening explorer database is based on "grandmaster games", but the 4 moves in the database doesn't take the hanging queen, which is the obvious best move even for a beginner like me (engine also confirms taking the Queen is by far the best move). How can this be?
Opening databases are not move order aware but are based on positions.
If you look at those games after Re1 you'll see that the last move was Nd4 and not Re1
When I analyse a game I played I looked at this position. The opening explorer database is based on "grandmaster games", but the 4 moves in the database doesn't take the hanging queen, which is the obvious best move even for a beginner like me (engine also confirms taking the Queen is by far the best move). How can this be?