Caro-Kann Defense: Advance Variation
B12 1. e4 c6 2. d4 d5 3. e5
Black scores 49.6% here across 4,852 club games — but the 5.2% who answer e6 score 43.5%, 6 points worse.
What Black actually plays here
Across 4,852 games from a Lichess-derived book of club play, Black scores 49.6% in this position. These are the replies people choose, and how each one works out.
| Reply | Games | Share | Black scores | Verdict |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Bf5 | 2,858 | 58.9% | 49.5% | holds up |
| c5 | 1,541 | 31.8% | 51.4% | holds up |
| e6 | 254 | 5.2% | 43.5% | below the line |
| f6 | 76 | 1.6% | 33.6% | below the line |
| g6 | 32 | 0.7% | 50.0% | holds up |
| a6 | 30 | 0.6% | 51.7% | 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.