One hundred days of Adult Chess improvement #16
"I think that the analysis of one 's
own games is the main means of self improvement." - Artur Yusupov (pg38, Vol 1 Secrets of chess training, Edition Olms, 2006)
How should we analyse a game (ours!) as an amateur?
As always there is no shortage of advice out there. I thought that a good place to start would be revisiting Yusupov's chapter in this seminal work on chess training. So what does he suggest?
- First find the turning points.
- Seek the reasons for your mistakes.
- Find new possibilities that did not appear in the actual game.
- Try to find opening improvements.
Well that all makes sense. But how to do this in practice? How indeed, given that you are an amateur with much more limited ability and the games that you are analysing frequently will have far less internal logic to guide you. Obviously that is where coaches come in handy...but I don't gave one!
