Modern Defense: Standard Defense
B06 1. e4 g6 2. d4 Bg7 3. Nc3 d6
White scores 55.0% here across 586 club games, and no common reply does noticeably worse than the rest.
What White actually plays here
Across 586 games from a Lichess-derived book of club play, White scores 55.0% in this position. These are the replies people choose, and how each one works out.
| Reply | Games | Share | White scores | Verdict |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Be3 | 186 | 31.7% | 54.6% | holds up |
| Nf3 | 166 | 28.3% | 55.1% | holds up |
| f4 | 86 | 14.7% | 54.1% | holds up |
| Bf4 | 49 | 8.4% | 55.1% | holds up |
| Bg5 | 46 | 7.8% | 54.3% | 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.