Opening Leak Lab

French Defense: King's Indian Attack

C00 1. e4 e6 2. d3

Black scores 48.1% here across 940 club games — but the 8.8% who answer c5 score 43.4%, 5 points worse.

What Black actually plays here

Across 940 games from a Lichess-derived book of club play, Black scores 48.1% in this position. These are the replies people choose, and how each one works out.

ReplyGamesShare Black scoresVerdict
d5 586 62.3% 48.4% holds up
c5 83 8.8% 43.4% below the line
d6 47 5.0% 47.9% holds up
b6 46 4.9% 45.7% holds up
c6 39 4.1% 61.5% holds up
Nf6 28 3.0% 44.6% 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.

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