Hey, chess.com members, I need help learning to analyze games.  If you can help me out, that'd be great.

Thanks,

ssnyder

You get free analysis as a member.

i'm not trying to be a salesman, but Fritz made me the happiest. I also take a look at my game, and if i lost, i look back at situations. I just posted a training game on my blog. In that game, my pieces were congested and my opponent looked very strong. So to analyse my game, I will have Fritz show me alternate moves that could have given me a better development configuration than the mess I came up with. Computer analysis is also good to show us outright blunders or weak moves. There have been games I played on here where I thought I played super-awesome, only to have Fritz show me that I hung a piece to a pin my opponent missed. Computer analysis is brutal at times, and humbling, but well worth it. If you can stomach the truth, you will learn a lot from it. I certainly am.

If you want to analyze your game, just write down everything you were thinking during the game and what you think about it now.  Decide if you could have played a better move on every move and write down all your analysis or put it in a variation board here on chess.com.

Then get a player who is at least 400 points stronger than you to reply to your analysis and point out your mistakes.