Queen's Gambit Accepted: Saduleto Variation
D20 1. d4 d5 2. c4 dxc4 3. e4
Black scores 34.2% here across 546 club games — but the 11.2% who answer Nf6 score 27.9%, 6 points worse.
What Black actually plays here
Across 546 games from a Lichess-derived book of club play, Black scores 34.2% in this position. These are the replies people choose, and how each one works out.
| Reply | Games | Share | Black scores | Verdict |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| b5 | 143 | 26.2% | 33.9% | holds up |
| e6 | 142 | 26.0% | 32.7% | holds up |
| Nc6 | 77 | 14.1% | 40.9% | holds up |
| Nf6 | 61 | 11.2% | 27.9% | below the line |
| e5 | 51 | 9.3% | 30.4% | below the line |
"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.