French Defense: Franco-Sicilian Defense
C00 1. e4 e6 2. d4 c5
White scores 54.4% here across 582 club games — but the 9.8% who answer dxc5 score 50.9%, 4 points worse.
What White actually plays here
Across 582 games from a Lichess-derived book of club play, White scores 54.4% in this position. These are the replies people choose, and how each one works out.
| Reply | Games | Share | White scores | Verdict |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nf3 | 184 | 31.6% | 55.4% | holds up |
| d5 | 179 | 30.8% | 57.5% | holds up |
| c3 | 127 | 21.8% | 52.8% | holds up |
| dxc5 | 57 | 9.8% | 50.9% | 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.