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The chess opening meta, by rating band

Which openings players at your rating actually play, and how often those picks actually win. Every number on this site comes from real Lichess games — no theory, no opinions, no engine lines.

Start with your rating band

Openings behave differently at every rating. Pick your band — everything below is filtered to real games at that level.

1400-1600 as White 1400-1600 as Black 1600-1800 as White 1600-1800 as Black 1800-2000 as White 1800-2000 as Black 2000+ as White 2000+ as Black

Drill it: play the move your rating band plays

Italian Game drill

Pick the move, see instantly whether it is the move players at your rating actually make, and what that move scores.

Openings by real win rate

10 openings, ranked by what they actually score in real games at each rating band — see all openings →

Italian Game

50.6% / 4.0% / 45.4%

Scores 52.6% for white at 1600-1800 (51,348,708 games)

Ruy Lopez

51.5% / 4.4% / 44.1%

Scores 53.7% for white at 1600-1800 (25,576,017 games)

Scotch Game

53.1% / 4.4% / 42.5%

Scores 55.3% for white at 1600-1800 (20,926,091 games)

Sicilian Defense

47.6% / 4.0% / 48.4%

Scores 50.4% for black at 1600-1800 (124,922,537 games)

French Defense

47.8% / 4.2% / 48.0%

Scores 50.1% for black at 1600-1800 (65,842,533 games)

Caro-Kann Defense

47.0% / 4.3% / 48.6%

Scores 50.8% for black at 1600-1800 (45,817,917 games)

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