King's Pawn Game: MacLeod Attack
C20 1. e4 e5 2. c3
Black scores 49.1% here across 925 club games — but the 10.9% who answer Bc5 score 42.1%, 7 points worse.
What Black actually plays here
Across 925 games from a Lichess-derived book of club play, Black scores 49.1% in this position. These are the replies people choose, and how each one works out.
| Reply | Games | Share | Black scores | Verdict |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nc6 | 317 | 34.3% | 46.8% | holds up |
| Nf6 | 224 | 24.2% | 49.8% | holds up |
| d6 | 113 | 12.2% | 54.9% | holds up |
| Bc5 | 101 | 10.9% | 42.1% | below the line |
| d5 | 84 | 9.1% | 53.0% | 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.