King's Gambit Accepted: MacLeod Defense
C34 1. e4 e5 2. f4 exf4 3. Nf3 Nc6
White scores 54.1% here across 893 club games — but the 3.4% who answer Bb5 score 50.0%, 4 points worse.
What White actually plays here
Across 893 games from a Lichess-derived book of club play, White scores 54.1% in this position. These are the replies people choose, and how each one works out.
| Reply | Games | Share | White scores | Verdict |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| d4 | 428 | 47.9% | 56.9% | holds up |
| Bc4 | 401 | 44.9% | 52.6% | holds up |
| Bb5 | 30 | 3.4% | 50.0% | 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.