Queen's Gambit Declined: Baltic Defense
D06 1. d4 d5 2. c4 Bf5
White scores 55.0% here across 714 club games, and no common reply does noticeably worse than the rest.
What White actually plays here
Across 714 games from a Lichess-derived book of club play, White scores 55.0% in this position. These are the replies people choose, and how each one works out.
| Reply | Games | Share | White scores | Verdict |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nc3 | 427 | 59.8% | 55.0% | holds up |
| cxd5 | 101 | 14.1% | 56.4% | holds up |
| Nf3 | 74 | 10.4% | 53.4% | holds up |
| e3 | 65 | 9.1% | 56.9% | 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.