English Opening: Anglo-Indian Defense, Queen's Knight Variation
A16 1. c4 Nf6 2. Nc3
Black scores 45.8% here across 1,385 club games — but the 11.3% who answer e5 score 42.6%, 3 points worse.
What Black actually plays here
Across 1,385 games from a Lichess-derived book of club play, Black scores 45.8% in this position. These are the replies people choose, and how each one works out.
| Reply | Games | Share | Black scores | Verdict |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| g6 | 519 | 37.5% | 45.0% | holds up |
| e6 | 323 | 23.3% | 44.4% | holds up |
| e5 | 156 | 11.3% | 42.6% | below the line |
| c5 | 102 | 7.4% | 41.2% | below the line |
| d5 | 91 | 6.6% | 50.5% | holds up |
| c6 | 71 | 5.1% | 53.5% | holds up |
| d6 | 69 | 5.0% | 52.9% | holds up |
| Nc6 | 33 | 2.4% | 40.9% | 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.