Benoni Defense: Old Benoni
A43 1. d4 c5 2. d5 d6
White scores 50.0% here across 1,173 club games — but the 24.3% who answer dxc5 score 46.0%, 4 points worse.
What White actually plays here
Across 1,173 games from a Lichess-derived book of club play, White scores 50.0% in this position. These are the replies people choose, and how each one works out.
| Reply | Games | Share | White scores | Verdict |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| d5 | 426 | 36.3% | 53.6% | holds up |
| dxc5 | 285 | 24.3% | 46.0% | below the line |
| Nf3 | 137 | 11.7% | 47.8% | holds up |
| e3 | 133 | 11.3% | 54.5% | holds up |
| c3 | 94 | 8.0% | 48.9% | holds up |
| c4 | 34 | 2.9% | 39.7% | 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.