Sicilian Defense: Alapin Variation
B22 1. e4 c5 2. c3
Black scores 55.5% here across 507 club games — but the 33.7% who answer Nc6 score 51.8%, 4 points worse.
What Black actually plays here
Across 507 games from a Lichess-derived book of club play, Black scores 55.5% in this position. These are the replies people choose, and how each one works out.
| Reply | Games | Share | Black scores | Verdict |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nc6 | 171 | 33.7% | 51.8% | below the line |
| d6 | 76 | 15.0% | 52.0% | below the line |
| e6 | 75 | 14.8% | 62.7% | holds up |
| d5 | 68 | 13.4% | 63.2% | holds up |
| Nf6 | 39 | 7.7% | 56.4% | holds up |
| e5 | 34 | 6.7% | 41.2% | 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.