Van't Kruijs Opening
A00 1. e3
Black scores 62.2% here across 2,640 club games — but the 6.6% who answer e6 score 58.3%, 4 points worse.
What Black actually plays here
Across 2,640 games from a Lichess-derived book of club play, Black scores 62.2% in this position. These are the replies people choose, and how each one works out.
| Reply | Games | Share | Black scores | Verdict |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| e5 | 1,263 | 47.8% | 60.3% | holds up |
| d5 | 623 | 23.6% | 62.7% | holds up |
| c5 | 252 | 9.5% | 67.9% | holds up |
| e6 | 174 | 6.6% | 58.3% | below the line |
| Nf6 | 94 | 3.6% | 66.0% | holds up |
| b6 | 56 | 2.1% | 67.0% | holds up |
| g6 | 49 | 1.9% | 70.4% | holds up |
| d6 | 38 | 1.4% | 57.9% | below the line |
| Nc6 | 35 | 1.3% | 62.9% | holds up |
| c6 | 31 | 1.2% | 67.7% | 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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