Hi Brent, you can have as many variations within a study chapter as you like. "best move" is an analysis notion but you get can up to 5 of those via the "multiple lines" slider in the hamburger menu below right the move list.
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Hi schlawg, thanks for your reply. I feel like I didn't explain the situation well enough. What I meant was when I'm studying an opening, there are usually multiple variations that you want to see. Take for example the QGA, after 1. d4 d5 2. c4 dxc5 3. e4, black has 2 to 4 moves that are quite often played (depending on your definition of "often"), being 3... e5, Nf6, Nc6, c5. What I would like to see is an option in the studies to put in some or all of those variations where it's not a matter of "this is the best move", but "this is one of the (best) moves". This way, multiple variations of one opening can be studied in one chapter. I feel like this would help studying opening on Lichess, because in the current situation, to study multiple lines of one opening, I would need to make a chapter for each variation. That is not a huge issue when going only a few moves deep, but depending on the opening there are lots of variations, and variations of those variations, and so on.
I'd love to try to build such tool, but my biggest struggle has been finding an opening database that knows the names of the openings. Lichess and Chess.com have the opening explorer which does exactly that, but I couldn't find where they got their data from or where I could get similar data to work with. So I figured it might be an idea to integrate it into Lichess.