Van Geet Opening: Reversed Nimzowitsch
A00 1. Nc3 e5
White scores 52.4% here across 592 club games — but the 14.4% who answer d4 score 48.2%, 4 points worse.
What White actually plays here
Across 592 games from a Lichess-derived book of club play, White scores 52.4% in this position. These are the replies people choose, and how each one works out.
| Reply | Games | Share | White scores | Verdict |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| e4 | 219 | 37.0% | 53.0% | holds up |
| Nf3 | 188 | 31.8% | 54.0% | holds up |
| d4 | 85 | 14.4% | 48.2% | below the line |
| d3 | 28 | 4.7% | 46.4% | below the line |
| b3 | 25 | 4.2% | 64.0% | 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.
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