Queen's Pawn Game: Krause Variation
D02 1. d4 d5 2. Nf3 c5
White scores 52.6% here across 662 club games — but the 15.1% who answer dxc5 score 47.5%, 5 points worse.
What White actually plays here
Across 662 games from a Lichess-derived book of club play, White scores 52.6% in this position. These are the replies people choose, and how each one works out.
| Reply | Games | Share | White scores | Verdict |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| e3 | 193 | 29.2% | 52.8% | holds up |
| c3 | 113 | 17.1% | 56.2% | holds up |
| dxc5 | 100 | 15.1% | 47.5% | below the line |
| c4 | 93 | 14.0% | 53.2% | holds up |
| Bf4 | 65 | 9.8% | 49.2% | below the line |
| g3 | 43 | 6.5% | 53.5% | holds up |
| Nc3 | 31 | 4.7% | 62.9% | 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.