Queen's Pawn Game: Levitsky Attack
D00 1. d4 d5 2. Bg5
Black scores 46.6% here across 939 club games — but the 14.9% who answer f6 score 43.6%, 3 points worse.
What Black actually plays here
Across 939 games from a Lichess-derived book of club play, Black scores 46.6% in this position. These are the replies people choose, and how each one works out.
| Reply | Games | Share | Black scores | Verdict |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nf6 | 170 | 18.1% | 44.7% | holds up |
| h6 | 170 | 18.1% | 52.6% | holds up |
| Nc6 | 163 | 17.4% | 51.5% | holds up |
| f6 | 140 | 14.9% | 43.6% | below the line |
| Bf5 | 97 | 10.3% | 44.3% | holds up |
| c6 | 67 | 7.1% | 49.3% | holds up |
| c5 | 46 | 4.9% | 53.3% | 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.