Italian Game: Hungarian Defense
C50 1. e4 e5 2. Nf3 Nc6 3. Bc4 Be7
White scores 46.7% here across 831 club games, and no common reply does noticeably worse than the rest.
What White actually plays here
Across 831 games from a Lichess-derived book of club play, White scores 46.7% in this position. These are the replies people choose, and how each one works out.
| Reply | Games | Share | White scores | Verdict |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| O-O | 208 | 25.0% | 46.4% | holds up |
| d4 | 195 | 23.5% | 48.2% | holds up |
| d3 | 153 | 18.4% | 45.8% | holds up |
| c3 | 148 | 17.8% | 45.6% | holds up |
| Nc3 | 109 | 13.1% | 46.8% | 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.