French Defense: Steiner Variation
C00 1. e4 e6 2. c4
Black scores 47.9% here across 509 club games — but the 53.6% who answer d5 score 43.6%, 4 points worse.
What Black actually plays here
Across 509 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| d5 | 273 | 53.6% | 43.6% | below the line |
| c5 | 68 | 13.4% | 54.4% | holds up |
| c6 | 49 | 9.6% | 59.2% | holds up |
| b6 | 31 | 6.1% | 54.8% | holds up |
| d6 | 26 | 5.1% | 48.1% | 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.