Vienna Game: Vienna Gambit
C29 1. e4 e5 2. Nc3 Nf6 3. f4
Black scores 42.4% here across 1,002 club games — but the 34.5% who answer exf4 score 37.3%, 5 points worse.
What Black actually plays here
Across 1,002 games from a Lichess-derived book of club play, Black scores 42.4% in this position. These are the replies people choose, and how each one works out.
| Reply | Games | Share | Black scores | Verdict |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| exf4 | 346 | 34.5% | 37.3% | below the line |
| d5 | 210 | 21.0% | 46.9% | holds up |
| d6 | 191 | 19.1% | 45.0% | holds up |
| Nc6 | 154 | 15.4% | 43.8% | holds up |
| Bb4 | 57 | 5.7% | 45.6% | 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.