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.
| Reply | Games | Share | Black scores | Verdict |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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.