Apparantly I played

C27: Vienna Game: Frankenstein-Dracula, Boden-Kieseritzky, Lichtenhein Defense

1.e4 e5 2.Nc3 Nf6 3.Bc4 Nxe4 4.Nf3 d5

Of course, I never played anything like that, at least not intentionally.

All I did was play some moves and turns out what I did is being categorized under that unwieldy monstrosity of a name collection.

Frankenstein-Dracula ? For real ?

Has naming in theory gotten a *tiny bit* out of hand maybe ?

What will the future bring ? Will we add ever new and more (and ridiculous!) names to more and more parts of the game until the complete game including the endgame can be discribed by a series of 26 names ?

This is because of the way openings start out with just a few moves and branch out in countless directions. Nobody intentionally sat down to give it that long and convoluted name, opening explorer just includes the names of the main opening (Vienna) and the main variation it came from and adds them all up. You can do the same for any other opening.

Like the Marshall Attack

1. e4 e5 2. Nf3 Nc6 3. Bb5 a6 4. Ba4 Nf6 5. O-O Be7 6. Re1 b5 7. Bb3 O-O 8. c3 d5

If you were to add up all the names of opening names it has before you get to the Marshall you would have to call it the "King's Pawn Opening: King's Knight Variation, Ruy Lopez, Morphy Defence, Columbus Variation, Marshall Attack"

This is of course ridiculous so people just call it the Marshall

I guess that makes sense to a certain degree, although in your example those 6 names at least manage to describe 8 moves and seem to mostly be named after the people who developed them (not sure about Columbus, was there a famous chess player of that name ?).

Frankenstein-Dracula still makes me scratch my head.

https://www.chess.com/member/Frankenstein-Dracula

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Doubt as a random member he has had any influence on the naming of an opening variant at chess.com though...

As the link in my OP shows, this isn't a name given by some random member, but actually the classification in chess.coms own database.

And on what games is built this database? On random members, not GMS only. Tactics trainer is bult on same random members, even cheaters.

Did you even bother to look up the link ?

Random games in databases don't name themselves. Are you trolling me ?