Opening Leak Lab

Slav Defense: Modern Line

D11 1. d4 d5 2. Nf3 Nf6 3. g3 c6 4. Bg2 Bg4 5. O-O Nbd7 6. c4

Black scores 45.5% here across 1,233 club games — but the 11.8% who answer Bf5 score 38.7%, 7 points worse.

What Black actually plays here

Across 1,233 games from a Lichess-derived book of club play, Black scores 45.5% in this position. These are the replies people choose, and how each one works out.

ReplyGamesShare Black scoresVerdict
Nf6 646 52.4% 46.4% holds up
e6 199 16.1% 48.7% holds up
Bf5 146 11.8% 38.7% below the line
Bg4 127 10.3% 42.1% below the line
dxc4 60 4.9% 43.3% 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.

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