Queen's Pawn Game
A41 1. d4 d6
White scores 60.6% here across 955 club games — but the 21.4% who answer e4 score 56.6%, 4 points worse.
What White actually plays here
Across 955 games from a Lichess-derived book of club play, White scores 60.6% in this position. These are the replies people choose, and how each one works out.
| Reply | Games | Share | White scores | Verdict |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| c4 | 350 | 36.6% | 65.9% | holds up |
| e4 | 204 | 21.4% | 56.6% | below the line |
| Nf3 | 118 | 12.4% | 62.3% | holds up |
| e3 | 91 | 9.5% | 57.1% | below the line |
| Nc3 | 49 | 5.1% | 70.4% | holds up |
| Bf4 | 34 | 3.6% | 47.1% | below the line |
| c3 | 25 | 2.6% | 50.0% | 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.