English Opening: King's English Variation, Two Knights Variation
A22 1. c4 e5 2. Nc3 Nf6
White scores 55.4% here across 1,131 club games, and no common reply does noticeably worse than the rest.
What White actually plays here
Across 1,131 games from a Lichess-derived book of club play, White scores 55.4% in this position. These are the replies people choose, and how each one works out.
| Reply | Games | Share | White scores | Verdict |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| g3 | 432 | 38.2% | 53.5% | holds up |
| Nf3 | 272 | 24.0% | 55.9% | holds up |
| e4 | 165 | 14.6% | 61.8% | holds up |
| d3 | 102 | 9.0% | 55.4% | holds up |
| e3 | 95 | 8.4% | 54.2% | holds up |
"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.