Queen's Pawn Game: Chigorin Variation
D00 1. d4 d5 2. Nc3 e6
Black scores 39.2% here across 1,837 club games — but the 10.3% who answer Nc6 score 29.4%, 10 points worse.
What Black actually plays here
Across 1,837 games from a Lichess-derived book of club play, Black scores 39.2% in this position. These are the replies people choose, and how each one works out.
| Reply | Games | Share | Black scores | Verdict |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nf6 | 664 | 36.1% | 43.0% | holds up |
| e6 | 547 | 29.8% | 36.9% | holds up |
| Nc6 | 189 | 10.3% | 29.4% | below the line |
| c6 | 181 | 9.9% | 38.1% | holds up |
| Bf5 | 124 | 6.8% | 39.5% | holds up |
| c5 | 68 | 3.7% | 40.4% | 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.