English Opening: Great Snake Variation
A10 1. c4 g6
White scores 55.5% here across 728 club games — but the 14.4% who answer d4 score 52.4%, 3 points worse.
What White actually plays here
Across 728 games from a Lichess-derived book of club play, White scores 55.5% in this position. These are the replies people choose, and how each one works out.
| Reply | Games | Share | White scores | Verdict |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nc3 | 388 | 53.3% | 57.0% | holds up |
| d4 | 105 | 14.4% | 52.4% | below the line |
| g3 | 91 | 12.5% | 59.3% | holds up |
| e3 | 48 | 6.6% | 62.5% | holds up |
| Nf3 | 42 | 5.8% | 45.2% | below the line |
| e4 | 28 | 3.8% | 44.6% | 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.