600Your band
At 600, the Ruy Lopez: Berlin Defense, Fishing Pole Variation scores 40.0% for Black across 50 games. The sample at 600 is too small to grade honestly.
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Ruy LopezBerlin Defense, Fishing Pole Variation
1. e4 e5 2. Nf3 Nc6 3. Bb5 Nf6 4. O-O Ng4
A line for Black. Every figure below is computed separately for each rating band, and every one carries its own sample size.
- Win rate, Black
- 40.0%48.3%55.3%47.6%
- Band 600, n = 50Band 1000, n = 232Band 1400, n = 150Band 1800, n = 208
- Blunder rate
- pendingpendingpending0.0%
- Band median 44.6%Band median 42.9%Band median 40.0%Band median 36.4%
- Tier
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- Black, band 600Black, band 1000Black, band 1400Black, band 1800
- Share of games
- 0.0%0.0%0.0%0.0%
- Of band 600 gamesOf band 1000 gamesOf band 1400 gamesOf band 1800 games
| Band | White | Draw | Black | Blunder | Book exit | Games | Tier |
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| 600 | 56.0% | 4.0% | 40.0% | - | - | 50 | - |
| 1000 | 48.7% | 3.0% | 48.3% | - | - | 232 | - |
| 1400 | 42.7% | 2.0% | 55.3% | - | - | 150 | - |
| 1800 | 49.5% | 2.9% | 47.6% | 0.0% | ply 9.0 | 208 | - |
Results by band
What it actually does, band by band.
All four bands are on the page. The one matching your rating is marked. Nothing here is averaged across bands.
1000Your band
At 1000, the Ruy Lopez: Berlin Defense, Fishing Pole Variation scores 48.3% for Black across 232 games. The sample at 1000 is too small to grade honestly.
1400Your band
At 1400, the Ruy Lopez: Berlin Defense, Fishing Pole Variation scores 55.3% for Black across 150 games. The sample at 1400 is too small to grade honestly.
1800Your bandBlunder rate 0.0%, band median 36.4%
At 1800, the Ruy Lopez: Berlin Defense, Fishing Pole Variation scores 47.6% for Black across 208 games. The sample at 1800 is too small to grade honestly. Games in this line leave known theory around move 5 on average, and 0.0% include an early material blunder (1 games at 1800).
Blunders and traps
How this opening ends early.
The known traps that live inside the Ruy Lopez: Berlin Defense, Fishing Pole Variation. The rates are how often each one actually lands in your band, counted against every sampled game in that band.
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Fishing Pole Trap
1. e4 e5 2. Nf3 Nc6 3. Bb5 Nf6 4. O-O Ng4 5. h3
Sprung by Black. The move that invites it is h3.
The knight on g4 is bait. Taking it opens the h-file and the queen arrives on h4 with mating threats against the castled king.
0 hitsBand 600
0 hitsBand 1000
0 hitsBand 1400
1 in 40,539Band 1800
Read as: how often this trap line is completed per sampled game in the band.
How the Blunder Rate is measured. A material swing of three points or more inside the first 24 half-moves after leaving book, detected without an engine evaluation. It is a proxy for how sharp a position is in practice, not an engine verdict, and it is computed from a monthly game sample rather than the full corpus behind the win rates. Trap hit rates count a trap only when its full line is completed on the board.
Questions
Common questions about this page.
At 600, the Ruy Lopez: Berlin Defense, Fishing Pole Variation scores 40.0% for Black across 50 games. The sample at 600 is too small to grade honestly.
At 1000, the Ruy Lopez: Berlin Defense, Fishing Pole Variation scores 48.3% for Black across 232 games. The sample at 1000 is too small to grade honestly.
The Ruy Lopez: Berlin Defense, Fishing Pole Variation (C65) is a line for Black. The main line runs 1. e4 e5 2. Nf3 Nc6 3. Bb5 Nf6 4. O-O Ng4.