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Bishop's Opening

Moves

White scores

53.4%

Wins more
Loses moreEvenWins more

51.6% won3.6% drawn44.8% lost

Theory 50.1% · Stockfish +0.0

Every level and clock · 57M games

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Win rate by rating

White’s score gets better as the rating rises.

RatingScore against evenScoreWonGames
53.1%51.2%6.1M
53.9%52.2%7.4M
53.7%52.0%11M
53.3%51.5%13M
53.2%51.3%11M
53.3%51.2%6.0M
53.7%51.4%2.0M
54.6%51.9%577K
55.1%50.4%88K

Every clock · Tap a row to set your level.

What does Black play next?

Black's most played reply is 2…⁠Nf6, the Berlin Defense.

Is the Bishop's Opening good?

Yes, for White, across every level and clock.

Everyone53.4
Stockfish50.1

Stockfish at depth 22 · +0.0 for White

Floor 53.4 is the worst score you would still get, 90% confident.

Among the families

14th of 66 families White can choose

Where it wins · rating × clock

<100010001200140016001800200022002500+Every levelUltraBulletBulletBlitzRapidClassical
Best 58.8% · 1000–1199 ultrabulletWorst 52.1% · under 1000 classical

Faint, hatched: few games, never the best or worst. –: too few to score. Tap a cell to set your level and clock.

Average game length

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More Bishop's Opening lines

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All 36 Bishop's Opening lines, ranked

36 variations · ranked by floor

Floor — the worst score you would still get, 90% confident.

1
Bishop's Opening: Lewis Gambit345K games
60.2%Floor 60.1%
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Bishop's Opening: Urusov Gambit, Keidansky Gambit101K games
59.1%Floor 58.8%
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Bishop's Opening: Boden-Kieseritzky Gambit228K games
58.0%Floor 57.8%
Bishop's Opening: Boden-Kieseritzky Gambit, Lichtenhein Defense20K games
57.6%Floor 57.1%
Bishop's Opening: Ponziani Gambit1.1M games
56.6%Floor 56.5%
Bishop's Opening: Vienna Hybrid, Hromádka Variation289K games
56.2%Floor 56.0%
Bishop's Opening: Horwitz Gambit5.8K games
56.9%Floor 55.8%
Bishop's Opening: Anderssen Gambit20K games
56.0%Floor 55.4%
Bishop's Opening: Boi Variation6.9M games
54.6%Floor 54.6%
Bishop's Opening: Lopez Gambit2.1K games
56.3%Floor 54.5%
Bishop's Opening: Vienna Hybrid, Spielmann Attack1.4M games
54.0%Floor 53.9%
Bishop's Opening: McDonnell Gambit, La Bourdonnais-Denker Gambit7.0K games
54.6%Floor 53.6%
Bishop's Opening27M games
53.6%Floor 53.6%
Bishop's Opening: Urusov Gambit358K games
53.6%Floor 53.5%
Bishop's Opening: Khan Gambit774K games
53.5%Floor 53.4%
Bishop's Opening: Warsaw Gambit114K games
53.5%Floor 53.2%
Bishop's Opening: Vienna Hybrid3.9M games
53.3%Floor 53.2%
Bishop's Opening: Philidor Counterattack1.9M games
53.0%Floor 52.9%
Bishop's Opening: Calabrese Countergambit, Jaenisch Variation107K games
52.8%Floor 52.6%
Bishop's Opening: del Rio Variation1.3K games
54.8%Floor 52.5%
Bishop's Opening: Kitchener Folly48K games
52.5%Floor 52.1%
Bishop's Opening: Stein Gambit94K games
52.1%Floor 51.8%
Bishop's Opening: Berlin Defense11M games
51.8%Floor 51.8%
Bishop's Opening: Philidor Variation323K games
51.9%Floor 51.8%
Bishop's Opening: Lopez Variation23K games
51.8%Floor 51.2%
Bishop's Opening: Calabrese Countergambit526K games
50.5%Floor 50.4%
Bishop's Opening: Lopez Variation, Lopez Gambit723 games
52.5%Floor 49.4%
Bishop's Opening: Berlin Defense, Greco Gambit107K games
49.1%Floor 48.9%
Bishop's Opening: McDonnell Gambit6.0K games
50.0%Floor 48.9%
Bishop's Opening: McDonnell Gambit, McDonnell Double Gambit333 games
52.4%Floor 47.9%
Bishop's Opening: Lisitsyn Variation637 games
50.8%Floor 47.6%
Bishop's Opening: Thorold Gambit587 games
50.6%Floor 47.2%
Bishop's Opening: Lewis Countergambit2.1K games
44.3%Floor 42.5%
Bishop's Opening: Pachman Gambit223 games
47.1%Floor 41.7%
Bishop's Opening: Krejcik Gambit110 games
44.6%Floor 37.0%
Bishop's Opening: Urusov Gambit, Panov Variation764 games
39.8%Floor 37.0%
Analyze Bishop's Opening PositionsSee what each move is worth at your rating, move by move

Methodology

Across every level and clock, the Bishop's Opening family scores 53.4% for White, from 57M rated Lichess games across 36 variations, and the low and high ends of its range both round to that same figure at this precision. Win rate, draw rate and loss rate come from games played September 2023 to August 2026.

How the figures are made
Whose games these are
57M rated games played on Lichess (2023-09 to 2026-08). The games are Lichess’s and free for anyone to use. What is ours is the reading of them. Last rebuilt September 2026.
Which games we count
  • Rated games only — nothing casual.
  • Both players within 200 rating points of each other. A mismatch tells you about the gap, not about the opening.
  • At least 2 moves played.
  • A game is filed under White’s rating.
Why every number comes with a range
A number off a few hundred games is a guess. The same number off millions is a fact. The range is what tells them apart, and it is what the lists rank on — so an opening cannot reach the top on a lucky run of forty games. The more games behind a figure, the narrower its range.
What the Floor and Edge at worst are
The Floor is the worst score you would still get, 90% confident: the low end of a figure’s range, not its average. Edge at worst is how far wins run ahead of losses, 90% confident, so above zero, that side wins more than it loses even on a bad day. Each is stated for the rating and clock shown, over the games that reached the position. They are on different scales: a score sits at 50 when the sides are level, an edge at zero.
How much we need before we say anything
An opening page needs 100 games. A figure on it needs 100 games at its rating and clock: short of that the answer reads a wider scope and says so, a table row shows only its count, and a map cell shows a dash. Under 1.0K games a figure is drawn faint, and never leads a list or counts as the best or worst place the line wins. The chaos and trap lists need 500 games overall and 250 games at one rating or clock.