Petrov's Defense: Stafford Gambit
C42 1. e4 e5 2. Nf3 Nf6 3. Nxe5 Nc6
White scores 45.3% here across 723 club games, and no common reply does noticeably worse than the rest.
What White actually plays here
Across 723 games from a Lichess-derived book of club play, White scores 45.3% in this position. These are the replies people choose, and how each one works out.
| Reply | Games | Share | White scores | Verdict |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nxc6 | 603 | 83.4% | 45.5% | holds up |
| Nf3 | 51 | 7.1% | 46.1% | holds up |
| d4 | 45 | 6.2% | 48.9% | 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.