How accurate is the analysis feature?

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Hi, im a pretty new player, grasping the basics and im pretty much just trying to focus on not blundering and recognizing opportunities for tactics. I dont have a premium account on here or anything but after each game i have a flick through the analysis feature and see if the computer found any obvious mistakes i made that i missed. Sometimes this is very useful, but sometimes it has really bizarre advice, like telling me a fairly innocent looking move is a blunder, then when i follow the line it suggested instead the moves are totally nonsensical, like trading the queen for a bishop. Am i missing some "next level" strategy that im just too much of a noob to recognise or is the computer somewhat bugged?

Thanks in advance

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ShinzuAkachi wrote:

Hi, im a pretty new player, grasping the basics and im pretty much just trying to focus on not blundering and recognizing opportunities for tactics. I dont have a premium account on here or anything but after each game i have a flick through the analysis feature and see if the computer found any obvious mistakes i made that i missed. Sometimes this is very useful, but sometimes it has really bizarre advice, like telling me a fairly innocent looking move is a blunder, then when i follow the line it suggested instead the moves are totally nonsensical, like trading the queen for a bishop. Am i missing some "next level" strategy that im just too much of a noob to recognise or is the computer somewhat bugged?

Thanks in advance

Do you have an example? People have identified a fair number of strange results and they are always looking for new problems.

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So here if you follow the "best" line black sacrifices their queen seemingly for no reason? (apologies for the double screen, not sure how to screenshot just one) 

EDIT: and now im looking properly IVE JUST SPOTTED that the queen is trapped (told you i was a beginner) So i guess no, i dont have any examples right nowtongue.png if one comes up ill update