Sicilian Defense: Wing Gambit
B20 1. e4 c5 2. b4
Black scores 48.6% here across 527 club games — but the 57.1% who answer cxb4 score 44.9%, 4 points worse.
What Black actually plays here
Across 527 games from a Lichess-derived book of club play, Black scores 48.6% in this position. These are the replies people choose, and how each one works out.
| Reply | Games | Share | Black scores | Verdict |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| cxb4 | 301 | 57.1% | 44.9% | below the line |
| b6 | 69 | 13.1% | 57.2% | holds up |
| e6 | 66 | 12.5% | 48.5% | holds up |
| d6 | 30 | 5.7% | 48.3% | 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.