Zukertort Opening: Ross Gambit
A04 1. Nf3 e5
White scores 54.2% here across 604 club games — but the 14.1% who answer e4 score 51.2%, 3 points worse.
What White actually plays here
Across 604 games from a Lichess-derived book of club play, White scores 54.2% in this position. These are the replies people choose, and how each one works out.
| Reply | Games | Share | White scores | Verdict |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nxe5 | 368 | 60.9% | 56.8% | holds up |
| e4 | 85 | 14.1% | 51.2% | below the line |
| d3 | 38 | 6.3% | 42.1% | below the line |
| d4 | 38 | 6.3% | 53.9% | 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.