Queen's Pawn Game: Anti-Torre
D02 1. Nf3 d5 2. d4 Bg4
White scores 54.1% here across 643 club games — but the 24.0% who answer e3 score 49.0%, 5 points worse.
What White actually plays here
Across 643 games from a Lichess-derived book of club play, White scores 54.1% in this position. These are the replies people choose, and how each one works out.
| Reply | Games | Share | White scores | Verdict |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| e3 | 154 | 24.0% | 49.0% | below the line |
| Bf4 | 107 | 16.6% | 43.9% | below the line |
| Ne5 | 95 | 14.8% | 54.2% | holds up |
| h3 | 56 | 8.7% | 56.2% | holds up |
| Nbd2 | 52 | 8.1% | 70.2% | holds up |
| c4 | 48 | 7.5% | 57.3% | holds up |
| Nc3 | 47 | 7.3% | 48.9% | below the line |
| g3 | 45 | 7.0% | 62.2% | 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.