English Opening: King's English Variation
A20 1. c4 e5
White scores 53.5% here across 1,415 club games — but the 9.0% who answer e4 score 41.7%, 12 points worse.
What White actually plays here
Across 1,415 games from a Lichess-derived book of club play, White scores 53.5% in this position. These are the replies people choose, and how each one works out.
| Reply | Games | Share | White scores | Verdict |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nc3 | 859 | 60.7% | 55.7% | holds up |
| b3 | 161 | 11.4% | 61.5% | holds up |
| e4 | 127 | 9.0% | 41.7% | below the line |
| g3 | 73 | 5.2% | 58.2% | holds up |
| e3 | 71 | 5.0% | 52.8% | holds up |
| d3 | 45 | 3.2% | 41.1% | 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.