I am fairly new to chess study; i have read a few books on chess and they all seem to say that recording your games and analyzing them is a must to further your chess game. But none of them seem to say how you go about it. Does anyone have any advice on this? And is it helpful to purchase a chess engine to do this?
Thanks
Go through the game and diligently note down where you could have played better, where you think things went wrong, see if you can spot any missed tactics, etc.
Then download a chess engine (there are plenty of free ones out there), and use that to go over your game. See how your analysis compares, see what you missed, try to figure out why your plan failed (or succeeded) and how you could have improved. A chess engine greatly helps, but I think you get much more out of it if you put the time in to analyze it yourself first.
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