Dutch Defense: Normal Variation
A84 1. d4 f5 2. c4 Nf6
White scores 51.7% here across 497 club games, and no common reply does noticeably worse than the rest.
What White actually plays here
Across 497 games from a Lichess-derived book of club play, White scores 51.7% in this position. These are the replies people choose, and how each one works out.
| Reply | Games | Share | White scores | Verdict |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nc3 | 361 | 72.6% | 51.5% | holds up |
| Nf3 | 63 | 12.7% | 57.1% | holds up |
| e3 | 28 | 5.6% | 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.