Opening Leak Lab

Zukertort Opening

A05 1. Nf3 Nf6 2. Nc3 Nc6

White scores 48.0% here across 505 club games — but the 6.7% who answer Nc3 score 29.4%, 19 points worse.

What White actually plays here

Across 505 games from a Lichess-derived book of club play, White scores 48.0% in this position. These are the replies people choose, and how each one works out.

ReplyGamesShare White scoresVerdict
d4 180 35.6% 49.4% holds up
g3 170 33.7% 52.1% holds up
c4 90 17.8% 49.4% holds up
Nc3 34 6.7% 29.4% below the line

"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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