Analysis of easy games, and more things about my current (lack of) progress
Lately I am not advancing as usual, my rating is at a stall and I think I need to change things a bit. I mean, it was working very well before, but it is difficult to stream daily and to do long games not while streaming daily. Chess is not my profession, and fortunately I have a job, some friends and some other interests. 
This morning while streaming I had a kind of epiphany. I played quite a bad rapid game, and then tried to analyze it. Funny enough, since it was so bad it was easier to analyze. I should probably focus on analyzing shorter and easier games. Maybe only miniatures that end up in mate. Maybe not only from me. What do you think about it? Was there any point where analyzing started becoming easier?
About other things in more or less random order...
Lately my eyes are pretty much tired, this is also affecting my attention span at the screen.
I start seeing more patterns in puzzles, but is it indeed good? I think so, but I am in a kind of intermediate moment, where seeing more patterns makes me act less carefully when I see none, or make me more confident about the existence of a pattern when I spot something similar but not exactly the same thing.
I notice less candidate moves while I play. I lost the habit of commenting out loud my games. On one side it is good, because I cannot do it while playing otb, but I should learn to evaluate candidate moves mentally. I often see one move, look and look and find no candidate. Or see two moves, maximum three. Sometimes I choose the wrong one, sometimes the right one, but the point is that I should see three/four candidates in complicated positions, and calculate more strenuously.
I think I should train more often tactics I fail in puzzle rush, or other random puzzles I do. One above all, pins. Pins do not need a lot of calculation, it's low hanging fruits. You simply have to see them every time there is one around. This goes hand in hand with a better board vision. I should probably also do puzzles with the tactics I fail in the game. Why not doing the suggested themes after a game? That should not harm. I love training with super easy puzzles, for pattern recognition, but maybe I should also work more often with difficult ones to calculate a bit more. Would the basic rated puzzles work there? I would say so, even if not focused on any particular topic.
I should focus more on the meaning of the very last move of my opponent, that usually tells quite a lot about their short term plans.
I should activate the king in the endgame and maybe also in the late middlegame. In some occasions moving the king is the best thing to do, but I have issues there.
And I should also learn to move pawns. This is oh so difficult. Should I focus on pawn structures? Should I learn to kick pieces? To make pawn storms? There are so many concepts I know of, but I cannot still put in practice.
OK, since my eyes are tired, I think it is time to close this post.
Happy learning to everybody!
The stream from this morning for reference:
https://www.twitch.tv/videos/1583338928
The Lichess study:
https://lichess.org/study/2CP76Ud5
