Italian Game: Giuoco Piano
C50 1. e4 e5 2. Nf3 Nc6 3. Bc4 Bc5
White scores 51.1% here across 1,907 club games — but the 25.9% who answer d3 score 48.1%, 3 points worse.
What White actually plays here
Across 1,907 games from a Lichess-derived book of club play, White scores 51.1% in this position. These are the replies people choose, and how each one works out.
| Reply | Games | Share | White scores | Verdict |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| c3 | 563 | 29.5% | 53.9% | holds up |
| d3 | 494 | 25.9% | 48.1% | below the line |
| O-O | 346 | 18.1% | 54.2% | holds up |
| Nc3 | 318 | 16.7% | 49.5% | holds up |
| b4 | 93 | 4.9% | 54.3% | holds up |
| d4 | 28 | 1.5% | 39.3% | 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.