Unless you are a titled player, Using any engine analysis for non-tactical positions can be quite counter-productive. I'd instead put in the work to get my games critiqued by a stronger human who will actually explain why you should do (or not do) the things you do as opposed to throwing you a bunch of evaluation scores and rattling off some line/variation.
How to get the most benefit out of a computer analysis
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i use the chess.com analysis engine all the time and find it very useful. it points out all of my mistakes so that hopefully i will not make them in the future and shows the moves i shudda-wudda-cudda made. if u can afford a master to go over your games with you, that's great but right now the analysis engine is all i can afford. unfortunately all of my friends are stupid and i beat all of them at chess so they're no help. the analysis engine has a rating of 2500 so it is very helpful for intermediate players like me.
Half the lines an engine comes up with are no use at all. See if you can reduce the line to a human concept.
Miss a tactic and lose a piece? Obvious. See if you know the tactic, mind it better next time and keep practicing.
Then you can ask yourself about the engine line:
Did it inflict/avoid doubled pawns? Did it occupy an open file? Do I see my pieces are generally ''more attacking'' or more active? Did it open or close the position to attack/turtle up on the wing?
If you can't figure why the line is better, then it's useless. If you do understand it, then try to mind the positional features you missed next time. It isn't so much about concrete memorization.
Dutchday wrote:
Half the lines an engine comes up with are no use at all. See if you can reduce the line to a human concept.
Miss a tactic and lose a piece? Obvious. See if you know the tactic, mind it better next time and keep practicing.
Then you can ask yourself about the engine line:
Did it inflict/avoid doubled pawns? Did it occupy an open file? Do I see my pieces are generally ''more attacking'' or more active? Did it open or close the position to attack/turtle up on the wing?
If you can't figure why the line is better, then it's useless. If you do understand it, then try to mind the positional features you missed next time. It isn't so much about concrete memorization.
ty dutchday, very interesting!
I'm a rather low level player, but I find the Chess.com analysis to be very valuable. I don't really pay a whole lot of attention to the running score, but I do pay attention to mistakes, inaccuracies and blunders. Usually I can see right away what the problem was: missing a tactic, a piece hanging, better placement etc. Sometimes the suggestions are over my head, but I don't worry because if I were to get rid of the grosser mistakes, I'd be way ahead of where I am now, and then I could start worrying about the nuances.
Hello all,
I am comming back to chess after a long time and this time I would like to be more constant and really improve.
I've played a few games but, even though I did win, I used the site's analysis feature and got the results which I find quite interesting.
Now every time I find an innacuracy, a mistake or a blunder I go into both the recommended sequence of moves and the one of the mistake. My question is, how can I really profit from this, it is obvious I cannot learn all of this combinations so what should I be looking for? What would be the "aha" moment?
Thank you.