How to analyse your games

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Weary_Traveller

So like many of you here I am trying to improve.

The steps that I am taking:

1 - Playing 2/3 games per day

2 - Learning - by watching videos and reading

3 - Completing puzzles

4 - Analysing my games

My question is - what the most effective way of analysing my games?

Is there a few simple questions that I should be looking to answer?

llama47

The simplest question to attempt answering for the sake of producing an analysis is:  "where are all the moments the evaluation changed?" -- and by evaluation I mean large changes like black is somewhat better changes to the position is just equal, or white is winning changes to white is slightly better.

I also like to check moments I was unsure or confused, and also any position I felt strongly about. If I felt like a move was definitely bad (or good), I want to check to verify that this is true.

How you do analysis can vary depending on what you're trying to accomplish, your rating, your time, etc...

If nothing else, I guess what I would recommend is to find 2 or 3 of the biggest mistakes you made. Categorize them (I could have checkmated but missed it, or my piece was pinned and that caused lots of problem, or anything else).

And then if one of them was a particularly bad mistake, choose it as the most instructive mistake of the game and save that position in some way. For example you could save it as a picture. Over time your "list of mistakes" will grow, and you'll be able to discover the weakest parts of your game by noticing recurring problems. Working on those problems is a fast way to improve your results.

nklristic

This is how I do it most of the time:

https://www.chess.com/blog/nklristic/how-to-analyze-your-games-first-steps-to-chess-improvement


But, at your level the analysis will not be that detailed as in the examples I've shown because there will be a lot you don't understand (if you are really a novice player). So you can do similar to what I am doing but you will probably focus a lot on biggest mistakes by both players. 

You can of course try to understand some smaller mistakes but don't be discouraged if you don't understand every small shift in evaluation. You will know more as you study chess and you will eventually be better at analysis as well.

orlock20

I'd look at key moments where you were confused on what move would have worked best in a tight spot, missed wins and checkmates you missed.

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