Scandinavian Defense: Blackburne-Kloosterboer Gambit
B01 1. e4 d5 2. exd5 c6
White scores 51.6% here across 871 club games — but the 4.6% who answer Nf3 score 42.5%, 9 points worse.
What White actually plays here
Across 871 games from a Lichess-derived book of club play, White scores 51.6% in this position. These are the replies people choose, and how each one works out.
| Reply | Games | Share | White scores | Verdict |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| dxc6 | 617 | 70.8% | 52.0% | holds up |
| Nc3 | 130 | 14.9% | 50.8% | holds up |
| d4 | 64 | 7.3% | 57.8% | holds up |
| Nf3 | 40 | 4.6% | 42.5% | 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.