Queen's Gambit Declined: Exchange Variation, Positional Variation
D35 1. d4 Nf6 2. c4 e6 3. Nc3 d5 4. cxd5 exd5 5. Bg5 c6
Black scores 46.5% here across 480 club games, and no common reply does noticeably worse than the rest.
What Black actually plays here
Across 480 games from a Lichess-derived book of club play, Black scores 46.5% in this position. These are the replies people choose, and how each one works out.
| Reply | Games | Share | Black scores | Verdict |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Be7 | 242 | 50.4% | 45.0% | holds up |
| c6 | 137 | 28.5% | 47.8% | holds up |
| Nbd7 | 32 | 6.7% | 48.4% | holds up |
| Bb4 | 31 | 6.5% | 45.2% | 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.