Pirc Defense
B00 1. e4 d6 2. d4 Nf6
White scores 53.6% here across 2,362 club games — but the 3.9% who answer Nc3 score 48.4%, 5 points worse.
What White actually plays here
Across 2,362 games from a Lichess-derived book of club play, White scores 53.6% in this position. These are the replies people choose, and how each one works out.
| Reply | Games | Share | White scores | Verdict |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| d4 | 1,097 | 46.4% | 53.9% | holds up |
| Nf3 | 637 | 27.0% | 55.8% | holds up |
| Bc4 | 216 | 9.1% | 54.2% | holds up |
| f4 | 129 | 5.5% | 57.4% | holds up |
| Nc3 | 93 | 3.9% | 48.4% | below the line |
| d3 | 54 | 2.3% | 47.2% | below the line |
| h3 | 35 | 1.5% | 25.7% | below the line |
| c4 | 25 | 1.1% | 58.0% | 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.