Sicilian Defense: French Variation
B40 1. e4 c5 2. Nf3 e6
White scores 50.0% here across 1,511 club games — but the 14.5% who answer Bc4 score 45.9%, 4 points worse.
What White actually plays here
Across 1,511 games from a Lichess-derived book of club play, White scores 50.0% in this position. These are the replies people choose, and how each one works out.
| Reply | Games | Share | White scores | Verdict |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| d4 | 697 | 46.1% | 50.7% | holds up |
| Bc4 | 219 | 14.5% | 45.9% | below the line |
| Nc3 | 196 | 13.0% | 46.9% | below the line |
| c3 | 117 | 7.7% | 53.0% | holds up |
| c4 | 69 | 4.6% | 50.0% | holds up |
| d3 | 56 | 3.7% | 53.6% | holds up |
| e5 | 33 | 2.2% | 60.6% | holds up |
| g3 | 25 | 1.7% | 56.0% | 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.