Englund Gambit Declined: Reversed French
A40 1. d4 e5 2. e3
Black scores 47.9% here across 1,129 club games — but the 7.6% who answer Nc6 score 42.4%, 5 points worse.
What Black actually plays here
Across 1,129 games from a Lichess-derived book of club play, Black scores 47.9% in this position. These are the replies people choose, and how each one works out.
| Reply | Games | Share | Black scores | Verdict |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| exd4 | 592 | 52.4% | 49.7% | holds up |
| e4 | 238 | 21.1% | 48.5% | holds up |
| d6 | 99 | 8.8% | 44.9% | holds up |
| Nc6 | 86 | 7.6% | 42.4% | below the line |
| d5 | 37 | 3.3% | 45.9% | holds up |
| Nf6 | 25 | 2.2% | 40.0% | 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.