King's Pawn Game: Wayward Queen Attack
C20 1. e4 e5 2. Qh5
Black scores 51.5% here across 1,359 club games — but the 13.1% who answer Qf6 score 46.9%, 5 points worse.
What Black actually plays here
Across 1,359 games from a Lichess-derived book of club play, Black scores 51.5% in this position. These are the replies people choose, and how each one works out.
| Reply | Games | Share | Black scores | Verdict |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nc6 | 706 | 51.9% | 53.8% | holds up |
| d6 | 265 | 19.5% | 50.9% | holds up |
| Qf6 | 178 | 13.1% | 46.9% | below the line |
| Nf6 | 130 | 9.6% | 52.7% | holds up |
| Qe7 | 50 | 3.7% | 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.