King's Gambit Accepted: King's Knight's Gambit
C34 1. e4 e5 2. f4 exf4 3. Nf3
Black scores 47.5% here across 2,835 club games — but the 6.4% who answer Bc5 score 39.5%, 8 points worse.
What Black actually plays here
Across 2,835 games from a Lichess-derived book of club play, Black scores 47.5% in this position. These are the replies people choose, and how each one works out.
| Reply | Games | Share | Black scores | Verdict |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| g5 | 524 | 18.5% | 52.1% | holds up |
| Nc6 | 490 | 17.3% | 45.2% | holds up |
| d6 | 422 | 14.9% | 46.2% | holds up |
| d5 | 285 | 10.1% | 48.6% | holds up |
| Be7 | 277 | 9.8% | 52.0% | holds up |
| Nf6 | 269 | 9.5% | 49.1% | holds up |
| Bc5 | 181 | 6.4% | 39.5% | below the line |
| h6 | 144 | 5.1% | 46.5% | holds up |
| f6 | 51 | 1.8% | 42.2% | below the line |
| Ne7 | 50 | 1.8% | 55.0% | holds up |
| Qe7 | 41 | 1.4% | 35.4% | 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.