Indian Defense: Budapest Gambit
A51 1. d4 Nf6 2. c4 e5
White scores 47.1% here across 668 club games, and no common reply does noticeably worse than the rest.
What White actually plays here
Across 668 games from a Lichess-derived book of club play, White scores 47.1% in this position. These are the replies people choose, and how each one works out.
| Reply | Games | Share | White scores | Verdict |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| dxe5 | 409 | 61.2% | 47.3% | holds up |
| d5 | 131 | 19.6% | 46.9% | holds up |
| Nc3 | 67 | 10.0% | 49.3% | holds up |
| e3 | 33 | 4.9% | 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.