Opening Leak Lab

Zukertort Opening

A06 1. Nf3 d5

White scores 54.7% here across 1,256 club games — but the 6.4% who answer e4 score 43.8%, 11 points worse.

What White actually plays here

Across 1,256 games from a Lichess-derived book of club play, White scores 54.7% in this position. These are the replies people choose, and how each one works out.

ReplyGamesShare White scoresVerdict
d4 546 43.5% 52.2% holds up
c4 241 19.2% 58.9% holds up
g3 234 18.6% 63.0% holds up
e4 80 6.4% 43.8% below the line
Nc3 46 3.7% 35.9% below the line
e3 34 2.7% 52.9% holds up
d3 26 2.1% 59.6% 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.

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