Caro-Kann Defense: Advance Variation, Short Variation
B12 1. e4 c6 2. d4 d5 3. e5 Bf5 4. Nf3
Black scores 49.4% here across 1,125 club games, and no common reply does noticeably worse than the rest.
What Black actually plays here
Across 1,125 games from a Lichess-derived book of club play, Black scores 49.4% in this position. These are the replies people choose, and how each one works out.
| Reply | Games | Share | Black scores | Verdict |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| e6 | 959 | 85.2% | 49.9% | holds up |
| h6 | 48 | 4.3% | 49.0% | holds up |
| c5 | 42 | 3.7% | 48.8% | holds up |
| f6 | 28 | 2.5% | 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.