Indian Defense: West Indian Defense
E60 1. d4 Nf6 2. c4 g6
White scores 49.3% here across 1,077 club games, and no common reply does noticeably worse than the rest.
What White actually plays here
Across 1,077 games from a Lichess-derived book of club play, White scores 49.3% in this position. These are the replies people choose, and how each one works out.
| Reply | Games | Share | White scores | Verdict |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nc3 | 770 | 71.5% | 49.4% | holds up |
| Nf3 | 180 | 16.7% | 51.9% | holds up |
| e3 | 56 | 5.2% | 49.1% | 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.