Englund Gambit Declined
A40 1. d4 e5 2. d5
Black scores 50.9% here across 847 club games — but the 27.7% who answer d6 score 46.4%, 5 points worse.
What Black actually plays here
Across 847 games from a Lichess-derived book of club play, Black scores 50.9% in this position. These are the replies people choose, and how each one works out.
| Reply | Games | Share | Black scores | Verdict |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| d6 | 235 | 27.7% | 46.4% | below the line |
| Bc5 | 233 | 27.5% | 52.4% | holds up |
| Nf6 | 183 | 21.6% | 54.1% | holds up |
| c6 | 59 | 7.0% | 61.0% | holds up |
| e4 | 34 | 4.0% | 58.8% | holds up |
| f5 | 29 | 3.4% | 39.7% | 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.