Post-game analysis for beginners

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dcroll
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Post-game analysis for beginners

Post by dcroll » Wed Sep 09, 2009 7:29 pm

Hi dear chess friends,

After a long hiatus I am playing here again. This time, I want to pay greater care to my post-game analysis, and I really want to improve my playing.

What I am doing until now is to replay the game (in ExaChess, for example) and make notes on which moves I could have played better.

When I don't find any obvious bugs, I run the game through a chess engine, which helpfully suggests better moves. At first using a 0.5 pawn units treshold to find bigger mishaps, and then gradually reducing it to 0.15 (because there needs to be leeway for "wrong" openings - the engine always sees the Caro-Kann as a blunder :shock: ).

And then I try to find out why the engine suggested other moves...

I'm wondering what comments you have on this learning strategy, and if you could suggest better ones :)


david

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