Queen's Gambit Declined: Albin Countergambit
D08 1. d4 d5 2. c4 e5
White scores 53.3% here across 697 club games — but the 11.5% who answer cxd5 score 36.2%, 17 points worse.
What White actually plays here
Across 697 games from a Lichess-derived book of club play, White scores 53.3% in this position. These are the replies people choose, and how each one works out.
| Reply | Games | Share | White scores | Verdict |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| dxe5 | 384 | 55.1% | 55.7% | holds up |
| Nc3 | 109 | 15.6% | 60.6% | holds up |
| e3 | 91 | 13.1% | 51.1% | holds up |
| cxd5 | 80 | 11.5% | 36.2% | below the line |
| Nf3 | 28 | 4.0% | 42.9% | 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.