French Defense: Two Knights Variation
C00 1. e4 e6 2. Nf3 d5 3. Nc3
Black scores 49.5% here across 574 club games — but the 13.8% who answer c5 score 41.8%, 8 points worse.
What Black actually plays here
Across 574 games from a Lichess-derived book of club play, Black scores 49.5% in this position. These are the replies people choose, and how each one works out.
| Reply | Games | Share | Black scores | Verdict |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| d4 | 155 | 27.0% | 46.8% | holds up |
| dxe4 | 149 | 26.0% | 50.7% | holds up |
| Nf6 | 132 | 23.0% | 56.1% | holds up |
| c5 | 79 | 13.8% | 41.8% | below the line |
| Bb4 | 28 | 4.9% | 41.1% | 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.