Every opening, as W / D / L
This is the real Lichess opening database — millions of games, broken down move by move. Click any move to go deeper, then send its wins, draws and losses straight to the calculator to see the single scoring percentage they add up to.
📍 This Position
Starting position
White's Score Here
⚖️ The Fair Baseline
White is expected to score above 50% before a single move is played. So the question is never “is this above 50%” — it's how does this line compare to White's average in this same database?
White's Average Here
🎓 Why we don't use a fixed 55% cut-off
55% is an average, not a law
Across large master databases White scores about 54–55% overall — New In Chess measured 54.8% over 731,740 games. That is the average opening, so 55% means “completely ordinary”, not “good”.
There's one threshold, not two
Black's score is always 100 − White's. “Good for White above 55%” and “good for Black below 55%” are the same line read from opposite ends — and taken literally, the second one would make 1.e4 (54.1%) a Black success.
The average moves with the players
Master games are drawn more than half the time; online blitz games almost never are. That pushes White's average much closer to 50% in the Lichess database. Switch the database above and watch the baseline move — that's why this page measures it instead of assuming it.
One more trap: these percentages are not a random sample. Strong players avoid lines they believe are bad, so those lines stay rare and the few games in them skew. And a line with a few hundred games can swing several points on luck alone — which is why thin rows are dimmed here.