Van Geet Opening
A00 1. Nc3
Black scores 46.9% here across 752 club games — but the 4.7% who answer g6 score 32.9%, 14 points worse.
What Black actually plays here
Across 752 games from a Lichess-derived book of club play, Black scores 46.9% in this position. These are the replies people choose, and how each one works out.
| Reply | Games | Share | Black scores | Verdict |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| e5 | 245 | 32.6% | 48.2% | holds up |
| d5 | 225 | 29.9% | 48.9% | holds up |
| Nf6 | 93 | 12.4% | 45.7% | holds up |
| e6 | 57 | 7.6% | 48.2% | holds up |
| g6 | 35 | 4.7% | 32.9% | below the line |
| c5 | 29 | 3.9% | 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.