Elephant Gambit
C40 1. e4 e5 2. Nf3 d5
White scores 51.2% here across 1,932 club games — but the 6.0% who answer d3 score 46.5%, 5 points worse.
What White actually plays here
Across 1,932 games from a Lichess-derived book of club play, White scores 51.2% in this position. These are the replies people choose, and how each one works out.
| Reply | Games | Share | White scores | Verdict |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| exd5 | 1,031 | 53.4% | 51.1% | holds up |
| Nxe5 | 406 | 21.0% | 48.9% | holds up |
| Nc3 | 142 | 7.3% | 53.5% | holds up |
| d4 | 137 | 7.1% | 60.9% | holds up |
| d3 | 115 | 6.0% | 46.5% | below the line |
| Bc4 | 38 | 2.0% | 36.8% | below the line |
| Bd3 | 26 | 1.3% | 61.5% | 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.