French Defense: Queen's Knight
C00 1. e4 e6 2. Nc3
Black scores 50.1% here across 1,898 club games — but the 4.4% who answer b6 score 42.3%, 8 points worse.
What Black actually plays here
Across 1,898 games from a Lichess-derived book of club play, Black scores 50.1% in this position. These are the replies people choose, and how each one works out.
| Reply | Games | Share | Black scores | Verdict |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| d5 | 1,119 | 59.0% | 50.3% | holds up |
| c5 | 143 | 7.5% | 51.4% | holds up |
| c6 | 122 | 6.4% | 55.3% | holds up |
| b6 | 84 | 4.4% | 42.3% | below the line |
| d6 | 78 | 4.1% | 48.7% | holds up |
| Bb4 | 54 | 2.8% | 62.0% | holds up |
| Nf6 | 46 | 2.4% | 44.6% | below the line |
| Nc6 | 45 | 2.4% | 44.4% | below the line |
| a6 | 38 | 2.0% | 47.4% | holds up |
| g6 | 33 | 1.7% | 48.5% | holds up |
| Bc5 | 30 | 1.6% | 63.3% | holds up |
| Ne7 | 30 | 1.6% | 50.0% | holds up |
"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.