Queen's Pawn Game: Stonewall Attack
D00 1. d4 d5 2. e3 Nf6 3. Bd3
Black scores 45.3% here across 491 club games — but the 26.3% who answer e6 score 36.8%, 8 points worse.
What Black actually plays here
Across 491 games from a Lichess-derived book of club play, Black scores 45.3% in this position. These are the replies people choose, and how each one works out.
| Reply | Games | Share | Black scores | Verdict |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| e6 | 129 | 26.3% | 36.8% | below the line |
| Nc6 | 121 | 24.6% | 45.0% | holds up |
| Bg4 | 82 | 16.7% | 51.8% | holds up |
| c5 | 54 | 11.0% | 53.7% | holds up |
| g6 | 46 | 9.4% | 50.0% | holds up |
| c6 | 26 | 5.3% | 44.2% | 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.