Zukertort Opening: Queen's Gambit Invitation
A04 1. Nf3 e6
White scores 50.7% here across 1,236 club games — but the 7.0% who answer Nc3 score 42.5%, 8 points worse.
What White actually plays here
Across 1,236 games from a Lichess-derived book of club play, White scores 50.7% in this position. These are the replies people choose, and how each one works out.
| Reply | Games | Share | White scores | Verdict |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| d4 | 336 | 27.2% | 50.9% | holds up |
| g3 | 261 | 21.1% | 51.3% | holds up |
| e4 | 215 | 17.4% | 49.8% | holds up |
| c4 | 137 | 11.1% | 55.5% | holds up |
| Nc3 | 87 | 7.0% | 42.5% | below the line |
| e3 | 67 | 5.4% | 53.0% | holds up |
| d3 | 54 | 4.4% | 43.5% | below the line |
| b3 | 45 | 3.6% | 53.3% | 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.