Sicilian Defense: Closed
B23 1. e4 c5 2. Nc3 e6 3. g3
Black scores 50.1% here across 988 club games — but the 5.0% who answer g6 score 31.6%, 18 points worse.
What Black actually plays here
Across 988 games from a Lichess-derived book of club play, Black scores 50.1% in this position. These are the replies people choose, and how each one works out.
| Reply | Games | Share | Black scores | Verdict |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nc6 | 457 | 46.3% | 53.2% | holds up |
| d6 | 215 | 21.8% | 51.4% | holds up |
| e6 | 188 | 19.0% | 47.9% | holds up |
| g6 | 49 | 5.0% | 31.6% | below the line |
| a6 | 29 | 2.9% | 48.3% | holds up |
| e5 | 28 | 2.8% | 39.3% | 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.