Alekhine Defense: Scandinavian Variation
B02 1. e4 Nf6 2. Nc3 d5
White scores 44.6% here across 648 club games, and no common reply does noticeably worse than the rest.
What White actually plays here
Across 648 games from a Lichess-derived book of club play, White scores 44.6% in this position. These are the replies people choose, and how each one works out.
| Reply | Games | Share | White scores | Verdict |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| exd5 | 280 | 43.2% | 42.5% | holds up |
| e5 | 273 | 42.1% | 46.5% | holds up |
| d3 | 33 | 5.1% | 43.9% | holds up |
"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.