Opening Leak Lab

Indian Defense: London System

A46 1. d4 Nf6 2. Nf3 e6 3. Bf4

Black scores 45.7% here across 467 club games — but the 23.1% who answer c5 score 42.6%, 3 points worse.

What Black actually plays here

Across 467 games from a Lichess-derived book of club play, Black scores 45.7% in this position. These are the replies people choose, and how each one works out.

ReplyGamesShare Black scoresVerdict
d5 186 39.8% 48.7% holds up
c5 108 23.1% 42.6% below the line
b6 54 11.6% 37.0% below the line
Be7 35 7.5% 51.4% holds up
d6 32 6.9% 48.4% 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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