Benoni Defense
A56 1. d4 Nf6 2. c4 c5
White scores 50.3% here across 893 club games — but the 10.8% who answer Nc3 score 41.7%, 9 points worse.
What White actually plays here
Across 893 games from a Lichess-derived book of club play, White scores 50.3% in this position. These are the replies people choose, and how each one works out.
| Reply | Games | Share | White scores | Verdict |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| d5 | 605 | 67.7% | 50.2% | holds up |
| Nc3 | 96 | 10.8% | 41.7% | below the line |
| Nf3 | 95 | 10.6% | 57.9% | holds up |
| e3 | 75 | 8.4% | 50.0% | 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.