Indian Defense: Knights Variation
A46 1. d4 Nf6 2. Nf3
Black scores 50.9% here across 1,212 club games — but the 3.2% who answer c5 score 41.0%, 10 points worse.
What Black actually plays here
Across 1,212 games from a Lichess-derived book of club play, Black scores 50.9% in this position. These are the replies people choose, and how each one works out.
| Reply | Games | Share | Black scores | Verdict |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| e6 | 379 | 31.3% | 49.3% | holds up |
| g6 | 346 | 28.5% | 51.4% | holds up |
| d5 | 307 | 25.3% | 53.7% | holds up |
| d6 | 71 | 5.9% | 52.1% | holds up |
| b6 | 48 | 4.0% | 51.0% | holds up |
| c5 | 39 | 3.2% | 41.0% | 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.