Queen's Pawn Game: Accelerated London System, Steinitz Countergambit
D00 1. d4 d5 2. Bf4 c5
White scores 49.5% here across 678 club games — but the 6.5% who answer dxc5 score 37.5%, 12 points worse.
What White actually plays here
Across 678 games from a Lichess-derived book of club play, White scores 49.5% in this position. These are the replies people choose, and how each one works out.
| Reply | Games | Share | White scores | Verdict |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| e3 | 388 | 57.2% | 50.0% | holds up |
| c3 | 131 | 19.3% | 55.0% | holds up |
| Nf3 | 71 | 10.5% | 47.9% | holds up |
| dxc5 | 44 | 6.5% | 37.5% | 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.