Bishop's Opening: Berlin Defense
C24 1. e4 e5 2. Bc4 Nf6
White scores 54.0% here across 2,522 club games, and no common reply does noticeably worse than the rest.
What White actually plays here
Across 2,522 games from a Lichess-derived book of club play, White scores 54.0% in this position. These are the replies people choose, and how each one works out.
| Reply | Games | Share | White scores | Verdict |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| d3 | 1,353 | 53.6% | 53.5% | holds up |
| Nc3 | 473 | 18.8% | 59.5% | holds up |
| Nf3 | 447 | 17.7% | 51.5% | holds up |
| Qf3 | 127 | 5.0% | 52.0% | holds up |
| d4 | 66 | 2.6% | 60.6% | 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.