Scandinavian Defense
B01 1. e4 d5 2. b3
White scores 55.1% here across 7,042 club games — but the 15.4% who answer e5 score 48.1%, 7 points worse.
What White actually plays here
Across 7,042 games from a Lichess-derived book of club play, White scores 55.1% in this position. These are the replies people choose, and how each one works out.
| Reply | Games | Share | White scores | Verdict |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| exd5 | 5,271 | 74.9% | 57.6% | holds up |
| e5 | 1,084 | 15.4% | 48.1% | below the line |
| Nc3 | 257 | 3.6% | 51.6% | below the line |
| Nf3 | 126 | 1.8% | 56.3% | holds up |
| d4 | 87 | 1.2% | 54.6% | holds up |
| d3 | 73 | 1.0% | 37.7% | below the line |
| f3 | 34 | 0.5% | 27.9% | 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.