English Opening: Anglo-Scandinavian Defense
A10 1. c4 d5
White scores 54.6% here across 1,197 club games — but the 8.4% who answer e3 score 47.5%, 7 points worse.
What White actually plays here
Across 1,197 games from a Lichess-derived book of club play, White scores 54.6% in this position. These are the replies people choose, and how each one works out.
| Reply | Games | Share | White scores | Verdict |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| cxd5 | 812 | 67.8% | 57.2% | holds up |
| Nc3 | 113 | 9.4% | 54.0% | holds up |
| e3 | 101 | 8.4% | 47.5% | below the line |
| d4 | 53 | 4.4% | 42.5% | below the line |
| g3 | 36 | 3.0% | 54.2% | holds up |
| c5 | 27 | 2.3% | 37.0% | 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.