King's Pawn Game: Busch-Gass Gambit
C40 1. e4 e5 2. Nf3 Bc5
White scores 54.9% here across 2,727 club games, and no common reply does noticeably worse than the rest.
What White actually plays here
Across 2,727 games from a Lichess-derived book of club play, White scores 54.9% in this position. These are the replies people choose, and how each one works out.
| Reply | Games | Share | White scores | Verdict |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Bc4 | 1,143 | 41.9% | 54.3% | holds up |
| Nxe5 | 514 | 18.8% | 57.4% | holds up |
| Nc3 | 357 | 13.1% | 54.3% | holds up |
| d4 | 330 | 12.1% | 53.0% | holds up |
| c3 | 217 | 8.0% | 55.8% | holds up |
| d3 | 67 | 2.5% | 54.5% | holds up |
| Bb5 | 28 | 1.0% | 53.6% | 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.