Nimzowitsch Defense: Kennedy Variation
B00 1. e4 Nc6 2. d4 e5
White scores 50.3% here across 532 club games, and no common reply does noticeably worse than the rest.
What White actually plays here
Across 532 games from a Lichess-derived book of club play, White scores 50.3% in this position. These are the replies people choose, and how each one works out.
| Reply | Games | Share | White scores | Verdict |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| d5 | 340 | 63.9% | 47.8% | holds up |
| Nf3 | 114 | 21.4% | 57.0% | holds up |
| dxe5 | 61 | 11.5% | 59.0% | 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.