French Defense: Steinitz Attack
C00 1. e4 e6 2. e5
Black scores 61.5% here across 406 club games — but the 19.5% who answer d6 score 53.8%, 8 points worse.
What Black actually plays here
Across 406 games from a Lichess-derived book of club play, Black scores 61.5% in this position. These are the replies people choose, and how each one works out.
| Reply | Games | Share | Black scores | Verdict |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| d5 | 211 | 52.0% | 73.7% | holds up |
| d6 | 79 | 19.5% | 53.8% | below the line |
| Nc6 | 36 | 8.9% | 38.9% | below the line |
| c5 | 28 | 6.9% | 57.1% | 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.