English Opening: Carls-Bremen System
A22 1. c4 e5 2. Nc3 Nf6 3. g3
Black scores 47.6% here across 433 club games — but the 12.7% who answer c6 score 39.1%, 8 points worse.
What Black actually plays here
Across 433 games from a Lichess-derived book of club play, Black scores 47.6% in this position. These are the replies people choose, and how each one works out.
| Reply | Games | Share | Black scores | Verdict |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Bc5 | 89 | 20.6% | 50.0% | holds up |
| d5 | 87 | 20.1% | 44.8% | holds up |
| Nc6 | 75 | 17.3% | 51.3% | holds up |
| Bb4 | 75 | 17.3% | 50.7% | holds up |
| c6 | 55 | 12.7% | 39.1% | 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.