Englund Gambit
A40 1. d4 e5
White scores 51.6% here across 923 club games, and no common reply does noticeably worse than the rest.
What White actually plays here
Across 923 games from a Lichess-derived book of club play, White scores 51.6% in this position. These are the replies people choose, and how each one works out.
| Reply | Games | Share | White scores | Verdict |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| dxe5 | 595 | 64.5% | 49.9% | holds up |
| d5 | 166 | 18.0% | 59.3% | holds up |
| e3 | 66 | 7.2% | 62.1% | holds up |
| c4 | 28 | 3.0% | 55.4% | 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.