King's Gambit Declined: Falkbeer Countergambit
C31 1. e4 e5 2. f4 d5
White scores 49.7% here across 786 club games — but the 4.1% who answer fxe5 score 42.2%, 7 points worse.
What White actually plays here
Across 786 games from a Lichess-derived book of club play, White scores 49.7% in this position. These are the replies people choose, and how each one works out.
| Reply | Games | Share | White scores | Verdict |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| exd5 | 510 | 64.9% | 50.8% | holds up |
| Nf3 | 172 | 21.9% | 47.7% | holds up |
| fxe5 | 32 | 4.1% | 42.2% | 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.