Sicilian Defense: Accelerated Dragon
B32 1. e4 c5 2. Nf3 Nc6 3. d4 cxd4 4. Nxd4 g6
White scores 49.9% here across 989 club games, and no common reply does noticeably worse than the rest.
What White actually plays here
Across 989 games from a Lichess-derived book of club play, White scores 49.9% in this position. These are the replies people choose, and how each one works out.
| Reply | Games | Share | White scores | Verdict |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nc3 | 425 | 43.0% | 51.3% | holds up |
| Nxc6 | 236 | 23.9% | 48.3% | holds up |
| c4 | 113 | 11.4% | 48.2% | holds up |
| Be3 | 104 | 10.5% | 50.5% | holds up |
| Bc4 | 39 | 3.9% | 52.6% | 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.