Opening Leak Lab

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.

ReplyGamesShare White scoresVerdict
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.

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