Game Analysis on Twitch

Game analysis is often ignored by many casual chess players but vital if we want to improve! I do not mean the engine analysis, this is pretty quick to go over after a game, but how much do we retain? Can we identify the critical positions? Can we identify some of the mistakes?

Since I like the social part of things and never really did a post mortem after a game, only discussed a tiny bit after otb games, I decided to make the analysis of my classical games part of my training, and I often stream my trainings on twitch.

Sometimes I have less viewers around and try to analyse the game on my own. Usually I cannot spot many big things, since I am still a beginner, but at least I can check what I could have done better when a piece got trapped, or when I fell into any other tactic of the opponent and identify I have seen it in advance.

Sometimes there are viewers that are more experienced than me. I would say the average ELO there is 1600, while mine for rapid at the moment is 823. They usually help a lot identifying tactics I missed. I do questions. I get explanations, the engine analysis is very bad to give explanations. It gives numbers. Sharing ideas with others make us grow. I also think helping people with a lower rate is good, by teaching we consolidate further what we know.

I annotate everything in a study. Doing this forces me to learn, far way more than going fast through the engine analysis. Then I run it anyway, to see if I missed anything, yet I will remember far way better what I did wrong! And when I do the quick game review and look for the best moves, I consolidate the lessons learned.

I am not good at analyzing, I am starting, but it's enough to improve a little tiny bit every time. Even making questions but not being able to answer them myself is a good starting point.

You can just go around my twitch channel and look for any post with analysis in the title to check out the result!
Here the link:
https://www.twitch.tv/marziottaffm