Englund Gambit by rating
1.d4 e5
The Englund Gambit is a one-move trap: 1.d4 e5 offers a pawn White should simply take. The engine is a pawn and a third ahead after dxe5, and this is the one opening in the run where the correct reply is found more often than any other position measured.
How often each rating finds the engine move
53 percent at 1000 rising to 72 percent at 2200, and 63 to 82 percent on the follow-up. The trap mostly does not work.
The position after 1.d4 e5
This is where the opening actually starts asking a question. 29 moves are legal; Stockfish scores every one of them at depth 20.
Stockfish plays dxe5 at +1.38. Its next two choices are Nc3 (+0.39) and e3 (+0.27).
| Rating | Most likely human move | Finds dxe5 | Cost in pawns |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1000 | dxe5+1.38 | 53% | same move |
| 1200 | dxe5+1.38 | 59% | same move |
| 1400 | dxe5+1.38 | 62% | same move |
| 1600 | dxe5+1.38 | 63% | same move |
| 1800 | dxe5+1.38 | 64% | same move |
| 2000 | dxe5+1.38 | 67% | same move |
| 2200 | dxe5+1.38 | 72% | same move |
Two plies deeper
Following the most popular human continuation at 1400: dxe5 (62%), then Nc6 (54%).
Stockfish plays Nf3 at +1.33. Its next two choices are Bf4 (+0.89) and Nc3 (+0.85).
| Rating | Most likely human move | Finds Nf3 | Cost in pawns |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1000 | Nf3+1.33 | 63% | same move |
| 1200 | Nf3+1.33 | 69% | same move |
| 1400 | Nf3+1.33 | 71% | same move |
| 1600 | Nf3+1.33 | 72% | same move |
| 1800 | Nf3+1.33 | 74% | same move |
| 2000 | Nf3+1.33 | 78% | same move |
| 2200 | Nf3+1.33 | 82% | same move |
See this for your own games
Chessdrive runs the same two engines on your phone. It shows the move you should have found at your rating, not just the move a 3500-rated engine would have played.
How these numbers were produced
Stockfish 18 by the Stockfish developers (see AUTHORS file) at depth 20, with MultiPV set to the exact legal move count of each position so no move is left unscored, and Maia3, chessformer, human move prediction, 5m (bundled with maia3-js, UofTCSSLab/Maia3-5M, about 5M parameters) for the human move distribution. Run on 2026-08-29 over 28 positions across 7 rating bands. Findability is Maia3's probability for Stockfish's top move; it is not a claim about win rate.