English Opening: King's English Variation, Reversed Closed Sicilian
A25 1. c4 e5 2. Nc3 Nf6 3. g3 Bb4 4. e4 O-O 5. Nge2 Nc6 6. Bg2
White scores 54.9% here across 479 club games — but the 13.4% who answer e3 score 50.8%, 4 points worse.
What White actually plays here
Across 479 games from a Lichess-derived book of club play, White scores 54.9% in this position. These are the replies people choose, and how each one works out.
| Reply | Games | Share | White scores | Verdict |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| g3 | 188 | 39.2% | 63.8% | holds up |
| Nf3 | 123 | 25.7% | 52.4% | holds up |
| e3 | 64 | 13.4% | 50.8% | below the line |
| d3 | 47 | 9.8% | 42.6% | below the line |
| e4 | 44 | 9.2% | 42.0% | 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.