Opening Leak Lab

Lichess book + Stockfish

You are losing the same game
over and over.

Not blunders in time trouble — quiet opening moves you repeat every week. Leak Lab reads your games, checks every repeated decision against the book and the engine, and shows you the exact move to change.

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Two Knights · after 5.exd5 −1.9 in 14 games

5…Nxd5 — your move, 71% of the time 5…Na5 — the book's answer

One leak, of the kind a report turns up. The knight recapture looks natural and loses just under two pawns of value every time it is played.

Three steps, about ninety seconds

You give it a username. It does the reading, the counting and the second-guessing for you.

Step 01

Your games come in

Pull your recent games by username, or drop in a PGN. Openings get grouped so repeated decisions stand out.

Step 02

Every decision gets checked twice

Once against a Lichess-derived opening book, once against a bundled Stockfish. Agreement matters more than either alone.

Step 03

You drill the fix

Each leak becomes a position you play out against the engine until the better move is the one your hand reaches for.

Sample report

Where the points actually go

An example report: a club player at 1540, 183 games read. Five leaks account for most of the damage.

CostOpeningYour moveYou vs bookGames
−1.9 Two Knights Defence C57 5…Nxd5 14
−1.2 French, Advance C02 6.Be3 21
−0.8 Queen’s Gambit Declined D37 7…b6 9
−0.6 Sicilian, Alapin B22 4.Nf3 17
−0.4 Caro-Kann, Exchange B13 5…Nf6 12
Points shed, by move number

move 1move 16

Most of the damage lands between moves 5 and 9 — before either side has finished developing.

Holes in the repertoire
1.e4 c5 2.c3 Nf623 games
1.d4 d5 2.c4 e6 3.Nc3 c511 games
1.e4 e5 2.Nf3 d68 games

Positions you keep reaching with nothing committed. These are the cheapest points on the board to win back.

Book + engine

An engine alone would just tell you everything is fine

Stockfish will happily call your move playable. The book knows that at your level, nobody scores with it. Leak Lab only flags a move when both agree something is wrong — the evaluation drifts and the practical results follow it down.

That is why the list is five lines long instead of fifty. Fixing a repeated opening move is worth more than memorising a new one.

5…Nxd5your move

Engine −1.9
Book score 38%

5…Na5book’s answer

Engine −0.3
Book score 54%

Find out what your openings are costing you

Ninety seconds, your username, and a list short enough to actually fix.

Opening Leak Lab Book from database.lichess.org (CC0) · Stockfish GPLv3 · what happens to your games