Queen's Pawn Game: Torre Attack
D03 1. d4 d5 2. Nf3 Nf6 3. Bg5 e6 4. Nbd2 Be7 5. c3 Nbd7 6. e3
Black scores 51.4% here across 438 club games — but the 10.0% who answer Ne4 score 44.3%, 7 points worse.
What Black actually plays here
Across 438 games from a Lichess-derived book of club play, Black scores 51.4% in this position. These are the replies people choose, and how each one works out.
| Reply | Games | Share | Black scores | Verdict |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| e6 | 143 | 32.6% | 53.8% | holds up |
| Bf5 | 51 | 11.6% | 62.7% | holds up |
| Nc6 | 49 | 11.2% | 57.1% | holds up |
| Ne4 | 44 | 10.0% | 44.3% | below the line |
| Bg4 | 39 | 8.9% | 48.7% | holds up |
| h6 | 38 | 8.7% | 46.1% | below the line |
"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.