Opening Leak Lab

Indian Defense: Accelerated London System

A45 1. d4 Nf6 2. Bf4

Black scores 49.4% here across 3,973 club games — but the 20.0% who answer e6 score 46.2%, 3 points worse.

What Black actually plays here

Across 3,973 games from a Lichess-derived book of club play, Black scores 49.4% in this position. These are the replies people choose, and how each one works out.

ReplyGamesShare Black scoresVerdict
g6 978 24.6% 52.8% holds up
d5 933 23.5% 46.8% holds up
e6 796 20.0% 46.2% below the line
d6 596 15.0% 47.4% holds up
c5 365 9.2% 58.8% holds up
Nc6 80 2.0% 40.0% below the line
c6 79 2.0% 50.0% holds up
b6 58 1.5% 57.8% holds up
Nd5 33 0.8% 51.5% 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.

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