English Opening: Anglo-Indian Defense, King's Knight Variation
A15 1. c4 Nf6 2. Nf3
Black scores 47.1% here across 647 club games, and no common reply does noticeably worse than the rest.
What Black actually plays here
Across 647 games from a Lichess-derived book of club play, Black scores 47.1% in this position. These are the replies people choose, and how each one works out.
| Reply | Games | Share | Black scores | Verdict |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| g6 | 249 | 38.5% | 48.0% | holds up |
| e6 | 159 | 24.6% | 49.1% | holds up |
| c5 | 99 | 15.3% | 44.9% | holds up |
| d5 | 36 | 5.6% | 44.4% | holds up |
| Nc6 | 33 | 5.1% | 48.5% | 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.