Pirc Defense
B07 1. e4 d6 2. d4 Nf6 3. Nc3 g6
White scores 53.9% here across 1,830 club games — but the 6.8% who answer Bd3 score 45.2%, 9 points worse.
What White actually plays here
Across 1,830 games from a Lichess-derived book of club play, White scores 53.9% in this position. These are the replies people choose, and how each one works out.
| Reply | Games | Share | White scores | Verdict |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nf3 | 537 | 29.3% | 53.7% | holds up |
| Bg5 | 299 | 16.3% | 57.7% | holds up |
| f4 | 220 | 12.0% | 51.6% | holds up |
| Be3 | 180 | 9.8% | 53.3% | holds up |
| Bd3 | 125 | 6.8% | 45.2% | below the line |
| Bc4 | 109 | 6.0% | 42.2% | below the line |
| f3 | 81 | 4.4% | 61.7% | holds up |
| Bf4 | 67 | 3.7% | 60.4% | holds up |
| e5 | 57 | 3.1% | 57.0% | holds up |
| h3 | 55 | 3.0% | 40.0% | below the line |
| Be2 | 30 | 1.6% | 75.0% | 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.