Alekhine Defense
B02 1. e4 Nf6
White scores 48.9% here across 1,606 club games — but the 1.6% who answer Qf3 score 23.1%, 26 points worse.
What White actually plays here
Across 1,606 games from a Lichess-derived book of club play, White scores 48.9% in this position. These are the replies people choose, and how each one works out.
| Reply | Games | Share | White scores | Verdict |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| e5 | 843 | 52.5% | 50.4% | holds up |
| Nc3 | 506 | 31.5% | 48.7% | holds up |
| d3 | 126 | 7.8% | 49.2% | holds up |
| Nf3 | 40 | 2.5% | 48.8% | holds up |
| Qf3 | 26 | 1.6% | 23.1% | below the line |
"Below the line" means the reply scores at least three points worse than the position does overall. Replies played fewer than 25 times are left out: the sample is too small to read.
Is this costing you anything?
A table of averages cannot tell you whether you go wrong here — only your own games can. Opening Leak Lab reads your Chess.com or Lichess archive, finds the decisions you repeat, and checks each one against this book and a bundled Stockfish.