Bishop's Opening: Vienna Hybrid
C24 1. e4 e5 2. Bc4 Nf6 3. d3 Nc6 4. Nc3
Black scores 48.7% here across 686 club games — but the 21.3% who answer Bb4 score 45.5%, 3 points worse.
What Black actually plays here
Across 686 games from a Lichess-derived book of club play, Black scores 48.7% in this position. These are the replies people choose, and how each one works out.
| Reply | Games | Share | Black scores | Verdict |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Bc5 | 292 | 42.6% | 49.3% | holds up |
| Bb4 | 146 | 21.3% | 45.5% | below the line |
| h6 | 68 | 9.9% | 54.4% | holds up |
| d6 | 61 | 8.9% | 46.7% | holds up |
| Be7 | 54 | 7.9% | 45.4% | 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.