King's Pawn Game: Maróczy Defense
B07 1. e4 d6 2. d4 e5
White scores 52.6% here across 1,067 club games — but the 16.8% who answer Nf3 score 48.3%, 4 points worse.
What White actually plays here
Across 1,067 games from a Lichess-derived book of club play, White scores 52.6% in this position. These are the replies people choose, and how each one works out.
| Reply | Games | Share | White scores | Verdict |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| dxe5 | 501 | 47.0% | 52.7% | holds up |
| d5 | 263 | 24.6% | 56.7% | holds up |
| Nf3 | 179 | 16.8% | 48.3% | below the line |
| c3 | 50 | 4.7% | 50.0% | holds up |
| Bc4 | 33 | 3.1% | 47.0% | 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.
Related openings
- Pirc Defense B07
- Czech Defense B07