Hungarian Opening
A00 1. g3
Black scores 52.4% here across 1,699 club games — but the 32.9% who answer e5 score 49.0%, 3 points worse.
What Black actually plays here
Across 1,699 games from a Lichess-derived book of club play, Black scores 52.4% in this position. These are the replies people choose, and how each one works out.
| Reply | Games | Share | Black scores | Verdict |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| d5 | 602 | 35.4% | 55.1% | holds up |
| e5 | 559 | 32.9% | 49.0% | below the line |
| e6 | 108 | 6.4% | 48.1% | below the line |
| c5 | 94 | 5.5% | 58.5% | holds up |
| Nf6 | 89 | 5.2% | 62.9% | holds up |
| c6 | 66 | 3.9% | 47.7% | below the line |
| g6 | 63 | 3.7% | 47.6% | below the line |
| b6 | 40 | 2.4% | 56.2% | holds up |
| d6 | 28 | 1.6% | 51.8% | holds up |
| Nc6 | 27 | 1.6% | 48.1% | 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.
Related openings
- Van't Kruijs Opening A00
- Van Geet Opening A00
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