Opening Leak Lab

Rapport-Jobava System, with e6

D01 1. d4 d5 2. Nc3 e6 3. Bf4

Black scores 48.0% here across 908 club games — but the 19.2% who answer Bd6 score 44.3%, 4 points worse.

What Black actually plays here

Across 908 games from a Lichess-derived book of club play, Black scores 48.0% in this position. These are the replies people choose, and how each one works out.

ReplyGamesShare Black scoresVerdict
Nf6 250 27.5% 48.0% holds up
Bd6 174 19.2% 44.3% below the line
c5 126 13.9% 51.2% holds up
a6 103 11.3% 48.1% holds up
Bb4 98 10.8% 47.4% holds up
c6 49 5.4% 52.0% holds up
Nc6 41 4.5% 42.7% 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.

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