French Defense: Tarrasch Variation
C03 1. e4 e6 2. d4 d5 3. Nd2
Black scores 47.3% here across 846 club games — but the 21.0% who answer dxe4 score 42.1%, 5 points worse.
What Black actually plays here
Across 846 games from a Lichess-derived book of club play, Black scores 47.3% in this position. These are the replies people choose, and how each one works out.
| Reply | Games | Share | Black scores | Verdict |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nf6 | 309 | 36.5% | 46.9% | holds up |
| c5 | 248 | 29.3% | 50.8% | holds up |
| dxe4 | 178 | 21.0% | 42.1% | below the line |
| Nc6 | 34 | 4.0% | 41.2% | 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.