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.
| Reply | Games | Share | Black scores | Verdict |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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.