Queen's Pawn Game: Chigorin Variation
D02 1. d4 d5 2. Nf3 Nc6
White scores 59.0% here across 1,093 club games — but the 8.5% who answer Nc3 score 38.7%, 20 points worse.
What White actually plays here
Across 1,093 games from a Lichess-derived book of club play, White scores 59.0% in this position. These are the replies people choose, and how each one works out.
| Reply | Games | Share | White scores | Verdict |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| e3 | 393 | 36.0% | 59.4% | holds up |
| Bf4 | 214 | 19.6% | 61.4% | holds up |
| c4 | 210 | 19.2% | 64.0% | holds up |
| g3 | 111 | 10.2% | 63.1% | holds up |
| Nc3 | 93 | 8.5% | 38.7% | below the line |
| c3 | 44 | 4.0% | 62.5% | 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.