Opening Leak Lab

King's Pawn Game: Napoleon Attack

C20 1. e4 e5 2. Qf3

Black scores 55.2% here across 459 club games — but the 11.1% who answer d6 score 41.2%, 14 points worse.

What Black actually plays here

Across 459 games from a Lichess-derived book of club play, Black scores 55.2% in this position. These are the replies people choose, and how each one works out.

ReplyGamesShare Black scoresVerdict
Nf6 200 43.6% 55.2% holds up
Nc6 117 25.5% 63.2% holds up
d6 51 11.1% 41.2% below the line
Qf6 34 7.4% 57.4% holds up
Bc5 25 5.4% 66.0% 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.

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