Three Knights Opening
C46 1. e4 e5 2. Nf3 Nc6 3. Nc3 Bb4
Black scores 51.7% here across 1,666 club games, and no common reply does noticeably worse than the rest.
What Black actually plays here
Across 1,666 games from a Lichess-derived book of club play, Black scores 51.7% in this position. These are the replies people choose, and how each one works out.
| Reply | Games | Share | Black scores | Verdict |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nf6 | 753 | 45.2% | 51.7% | holds up |
| Bc5 | 398 | 23.9% | 53.0% | holds up |
| d6 | 230 | 13.8% | 50.4% | holds up |
| Bb4 | 125 | 7.5% | 54.4% | holds up |
| a6 | 71 | 4.3% | 52.8% | 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.