Opening Leak Lab

Caro-Kann Defense: Two Knights Attack

B10 1. e4 c6 2. Nc3 d5 3. Nf3

Black scores 47.7% here across 1,135 club games — but the 5.6% who answer Nf6 score 42.1%, 6 points worse.

What Black actually plays here

Across 1,135 games from a Lichess-derived book of club play, Black scores 47.7% in this position. These are the replies people choose, and how each one works out.

ReplyGamesShare Black scoresVerdict
dxe4 606 53.4% 48.9% holds up
Bg4 284 25.0% 45.6% holds up
d4 131 11.5% 48.9% holds up
Nf6 63 5.6% 42.1% below the line
e6 28 2.5% 48.2% 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.

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