King's Gambit
C30 1. e4 e5 2. f4
Black scores 42.7% here across 3,943 club games — but the 12.0% who answer d6 score 39.0%, 4 points worse.
What Black actually plays here
Across 3,943 games from a Lichess-derived book of club play, Black scores 42.7% in this position. These are the replies people choose, and how each one works out.
| Reply | Games | Share | Black scores | Verdict |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| exf4 | 2,110 | 53.5% | 41.9% | holds up |
| Nc6 | 615 | 15.6% | 39.8% | holds up |
| d6 | 473 | 12.0% | 39.0% | below the line |
| d5 | 290 | 7.4% | 52.6% | holds up |
| Bc5 | 192 | 4.9% | 61.5% | holds up |
| Qh4+ | 97 | 2.5% | 45.9% | holds up |
| f6 | 44 | 1.1% | 27.3% | below the line |
| Nf6 | 31 | 0.8% | 27.4% | 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.