King's Pawn Game: King's Head Opening
C20 1. e4 e5 2. f3 Nf6 3. Nc3
Black scores 54.5% here across 471 club games, and no common reply does noticeably worse than the rest.
What Black actually plays here
Across 471 games from a Lichess-derived book of club play, Black scores 54.5% in this position. These are the replies people choose, and how each one works out.
| Reply | Games | Share | Black scores | Verdict |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nc6 | 191 | 40.6% | 52.1% | holds up |
| Nf6 | 101 | 21.4% | 58.9% | holds up |
| Bc5 | 57 | 12.1% | 64.0% | holds up |
| d6 | 45 | 9.6% | 52.2% | holds up |
| d5 | 37 | 7.9% | 56.8% | 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.