Italian Game: Anti-Fried Liver Defense
C50 1. e4 e5 2. Nf3 Nc6 3. Bc4 h6
White scores 56.0% here across 1,476 club games — but the 11.7% who answer c3 score 51.2%, 5 points worse.
What White actually plays here
Across 1,476 games from a Lichess-derived book of club play, White scores 56.0% in this position. These are the replies people choose, and how each one works out.
| Reply | Games | Share | White scores | Verdict |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| d4 | 361 | 24.5% | 61.6% | holds up |
| Nc3 | 310 | 21.0% | 53.9% | holds up |
| O-O | 301 | 20.4% | 59.5% | holds up |
| d3 | 257 | 17.4% | 57.4% | holds up |
| c3 | 173 | 11.7% | 51.2% | below the line |
| a3 | 48 | 3.3% | 28.1% | 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.