Opening Leak Lab

Czech Defense

B07 1. e4 d6 2. d4 Nf6 3. Nc3 c6

White scores 48.7% here across 436 club games — but the 29.8% who answer Nf3 score 43.5%, 5 points worse.

What White actually plays here

Across 436 games from a Lichess-derived book of club play, White scores 48.7% in this position. These are the replies people choose, and how each one works out.

ReplyGamesShare White scoresVerdict
Nf3 130 29.8% 43.5% below the line
f4 72 16.5% 52.1% holds up
Bg5 62 14.2% 45.2% below the line
Bd3 38 8.7% 43.4% below the line
Be3 33 7.6% 43.9% below the line
h3 27 6.2% 55.6% 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.

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