English Opening: Anglo-Indian Defense
A15 1. c4 Nf6
White scores 47.3% here across 596 club games — but the 5.0% who answer Nf3 score 43.3%, 4 points worse.
What White actually plays here
Across 596 games from a Lichess-derived book of club play, White scores 47.3% in this position. These are the replies people choose, and how each one works out.
| Reply | Games | Share | White scores | Verdict |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nc3 | 344 | 57.7% | 47.5% | holds up |
| b3 | 95 | 15.9% | 57.4% | holds up |
| d4 | 59 | 9.9% | 46.6% | holds up |
| Nf3 | 30 | 5.0% | 43.3% | below the line |
"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.