Opening Leak Lab

King's Indian Defense: Orthodox Variation

E91 1. d4 Nf6 2. c4 g6 3. Nc3 Bg7 4. e4 d6 5. Nf3 O-O 6. Be2

Black scores 46.3% here across 455 club games — but the 13.6% who answer Nc6 score 41.9%, 4 points worse.

What Black actually plays here

Across 455 games from a Lichess-derived book of club play, Black scores 46.3% in this position. These are the replies people choose, and how each one works out.

ReplyGamesShare Black scoresVerdict
e5 147 32.3% 50.0% holds up
Nbd7 83 18.2% 45.2% holds up
Nc6 62 13.6% 41.9% below the line
c5 50 11.0% 37.0% below the line
Bg4 35 7.7% 54.3% holds up
Na6 26 5.7% 38.5% 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.

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