Scotch Game: Göring Gambit
C44 1. e4 e5 2. Nf3 Nc6 3. d4 exd4 4. c3
Black scores 43.0% here across 582 club games, and no common reply does noticeably worse than the rest.
What Black actually plays here
Across 582 games from a Lichess-derived book of club play, Black scores 43.0% in this position. These are the replies people choose, and how each one works out.
| Reply | Games | Share | Black scores | Verdict |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| dxc3 | 418 | 71.8% | 41.4% | holds up |
| d5 | 51 | 8.8% | 51.0% | holds up |
| Nf6 | 38 | 6.5% | 50.0% | holds up |
| d6 | 28 | 4.8% | 51.8% | holds up |
"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.