King's Indian Defense: Normal Variation
E70 1. d4 Nf6 2. c4 g6 3. Nc3 Bg7 4. e4 d6
White scores 52.9% here across 1,487 club games — but the 8.7% who answer Bd3 score 40.3%, 13 points worse.
What White actually plays here
Across 1,487 games from a Lichess-derived book of club play, White scores 52.9% in this position. These are the replies people choose, and how each one works out.
| Reply | Games | Share | White scores | Verdict |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nf3 | 434 | 29.2% | 52.5% | holds up |
| f4 | 233 | 15.7% | 53.6% | holds up |
| f3 | 213 | 14.3% | 56.3% | holds up |
| Be2 | 159 | 10.7% | 53.1% | holds up |
| h3 | 154 | 10.4% | 55.5% | holds up |
| Bd3 | 129 | 8.7% | 40.3% | below the line |
| Be3 | 50 | 3.4% | 48.0% | below the line |
| Bg5 | 47 | 3.2% | 52.1% | holds up |
| Nge2 | 25 | 1.7% | 76.0% | 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.