Queen's Pawn Game
D00 1. d4 d5 2. e3 Nf6
White scores 56.2% here across 20,661 club games — but the 4.9% who answer Bf4 score 48.7%, 8 points worse.
What White actually plays here
Across 20,661 games from a Lichess-derived book of club play, White scores 56.2% in this position. These are the replies people choose, and how each one works out.
| Reply | Games | Share | White scores | Verdict |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| c4 | 8,768 | 42.4% | 58.4% | holds up |
| Nf3 | 3,907 | 18.9% | 57.7% | holds up |
| e3 | 2,724 | 13.2% | 54.8% | holds up |
| Nc3 | 1,792 | 8.7% | 61.6% | holds up |
| Bf4 | 1,017 | 4.9% | 48.7% | below the line |
| h3 | 630 | 3.0% | 42.8% | below the line |
| c3 | 362 | 1.8% | 43.8% | below the line |
| e4 | 317 | 1.5% | 43.1% | below the line |
| g3 | 302 | 1.5% | 46.2% | below the line |
| a3 | 256 | 1.2% | 62.9% | holds up |
| f4 | 189 | 0.9% | 46.6% | below the line |
| Bg5 | 169 | 0.8% | 59.2% | 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.