Scandinavian Defense: Gubinsky-Melts Defense
B01 1. e4 d5 2. exd5 Qxd5 3. Nc3 Qd6
White scores 50.1% here across 610 club games — but the 4.4% who answer d3 score 37.0%, 13 points worse.
What White actually plays here
Across 610 games from a Lichess-derived book of club play, White scores 50.1% in this position. These are the replies people choose, and how each one works out.
| Reply | Games | Share | White scores | Verdict |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nf3 | 265 | 43.4% | 48.3% | holds up |
| d4 | 223 | 36.6% | 54.9% | holds up |
| Bc4 | 50 | 8.2% | 48.0% | holds up |
| d3 | 27 | 4.4% | 37.0% | 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.