King's Gambit Declined: Falkbeer Countergambit Accepted
C31 1. e4 e5 2. f4 d5 3. exd5
Black scores 49.7% here across 505 club games — but the 30.9% who answer exf4 score 46.5%, 3 points worse.
What Black actually plays here
Across 505 games from a Lichess-derived book of club play, Black scores 49.7% in this position. These are the replies people choose, and how each one works out.
| Reply | Games | Share | Black scores | Verdict |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| e4 | 207 | 41.0% | 53.9% | holds up |
| exf4 | 156 | 30.9% | 46.5% | below the line |
| Qxd5 | 102 | 20.2% | 41.2% | below the line |
| c6 | 28 | 5.5% | 60.7% | 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.