Queen's Gambit Accepted: Old Variation
D20 1. d4 d5 2. c4 dxc4 3. e3
Black scores 41.7% here across 598 club games — but the 34.1% who answer b5 score 34.1%, 8 points worse.
What Black actually plays here
Across 598 games from a Lichess-derived book of club play, Black scores 41.7% in this position. These are the replies people choose, and how each one works out.
| Reply | Games | Share | Black scores | Verdict |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| b5 | 204 | 34.1% | 34.1% | below the line |
| Nf6 | 95 | 15.9% | 45.8% | holds up |
| e6 | 85 | 14.2% | 42.4% | holds up |
| Be6 | 41 | 6.9% | 53.7% | holds up |
| e5 | 36 | 6.0% | 55.6% | holds up |
| Bf5 | 34 | 5.7% | 44.1% | holds up |
| Nc6 | 29 | 4.8% | 48.3% | 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.