King's Pawn Game: Leonardis Variation
C20 1. e4 e5 2. d3
Black scores 57.9% here across 1,101 club games — but the 18.3% who answer Nf6 score 54.7%, 3 points worse.
What Black actually plays here
Across 1,101 games from a Lichess-derived book of club play, Black scores 57.9% in this position. These are the replies people choose, and how each one works out.
| Reply | Games | Share | Black scores | Verdict |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nc6 | 362 | 32.9% | 64.1% | holds up |
| Nf6 | 202 | 18.3% | 54.7% | below the line |
| Bc5 | 169 | 15.3% | 58.3% | holds up |
| d6 | 153 | 13.9% | 51.0% | below the line |
| d5 | 66 | 6.0% | 54.5% | below the line |
| h6 | 41 | 3.7% | 57.3% | 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.