any way to limit analysis to one side only ?

any way to limit analysis to one side only ?  mostly I don't care what the other guy's mistakes were and it just clutters up the PGN to always have it in there

it would also save compute cycles for the company and be faster for the user

This would be a great idea! I really hope chess.com incorporates this.

agree

Not caring about the other player's mistakes is a mistake in and of itself.

If you want to be any good, you need to be able to identify errors.

If your opponent makes a bad move, and you are unable to identify the error or take advantage of your opponent's mistakes, is it really a mistake?

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If you don't care about your opponents moves do you care if you have an opponent or if the opposing pieces move at all during the game? 

if you're opponent never makes mistakes then you will never beat him/her.. so why would you not care about your opponents mistakes?

The problem with one-sided analysis is that if chess.com says you are ahead 0.35 Pawn Equivalents and then says you're up 3.48, you don't know how much is due to a great move on your part or a mistake/blunder on your opponent's part.  Personally, I save the pgn of the chess.com analysis, load it into Lucas Chess, and have Stockfish 10, set to 20-ply (about 70 seconds per move on my 3.2 GHz quad-core computer) analyze.  I like the every-move evaluation where you can click on each move and see where your or your opponent's move is compared to Stockfish's better moves.

Below is an example from a recent game, moves Stockfish liked best are in blue.  Notice how Stockfish didn't like most of my moves from 28-34.  Did my advantage in the game (+4.72 to +6.17) stay good because I was simply making safe moves in a game where I had a winning advantage or did I stay ahead because my opponent made bad moves as well? Notice that Stockfish didn't like my opponent's moves either.  But if you click on any one of the moves in Lucas Chess, you see a list of the 15 best moves and you can see if your opponent could have made a move that would have minimized your advantage. In the case below, my "safe" moves were ok because my opponent had no move at any time that would have made my advantage less than +4.  So knowing my opponent's moves was important to evaluate how well I played.

Also, don't get too caught up in chess.com evaluations. I added the Lucas/Stockfish 10 and chess.com indexes at the bottom.  There are significant differences when Stockfish 10 takes 90 minutes to evaluate the game on my 3.2 GHz quad-core processor laptop compared to chess.com's 11 min Max analysis.

Notice how Lucas Chess/Stockfish 10 20-ply (though the analysis took about 1 1/2 hours compared to around 11 min. on chess.com) thought I played better than Black overall but that chess.com. thought Black played better overall.  Lucas/Stockfish 10 20-ply said my avg. lost scores were 0.43 to my opponent's 0.49, but chess.com said I was 0.62 vs 0.40.  Lucas estimated my game rating at Elo 1810 compared to my opponent's 1600 (we were rated around 1860 [me] and 2030 respectively) and chess.com says CAPS 82.84 vs 92.05 (Elo 1640 [me] and 2150).

if you think it's better to have LESS choice over what kind of analysis we can have instead of having MORE choice over what kind of analysis we can have then , well...   we disagree.

p.s. the Lucas chess thing looks interesting, thanks for that

I loaded the game in pgnSpy lol

Running ... Lets see whats happening ...

Moves 1-22:---------------

white CP loss mean 10.55

black CP loss mean 14.45

Moves 23-28:---------------

white CP loss mean 111.00

black CP loss mean 170.33

Moves 29-34:------------

white CP loss mean 144.00

black CP loss mean 121.67

Moves 35-44:------------

white CP loss mean 15.10

black CP loss mean 25.00

All moves:-----------------

white CP loss mean 43.48

black CP loss mean 53.37

Average play on wining/losing positions (over 300 CP diff): -------

white CP loss mean 77.05

black CP loss mean 66.20

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Not that big differences, black lost on move 23 and worst part for both was 23-34.

I already "have that choice" off-line but want to have it online where I play

you have a problem with this?   go counsel somebody else 

to tell the truth I don't look at any analysis very closely if at all , I have limited time and even more  limited attention so it helps me to zero in on a few key things at a glance .  Upon reflection I realise I really don't care what my opponents SHOULD have done but didn't.  Am I really the only one that feels that way ?

here's an example ... see how easy the PGN scans.  my blunders on moves 19 and 22 just pop out with nothing else to obscure it

why can't we have the option of SIMPLIFIED analysis like this here at Chess.com in addition to the super deep default for both sides ?

I understand just wanting to find your 1 or 2 biggest mistakes and moving on, this is probably handy for blitz games but...

if you want to understand why certain moves are good and others are bad, you have to understand the position as a whole, not just the individual moves.

From that standpoint it's important to look at your opponent's mistakes too, because they give you clues about the nature of the position.

And it can be pretty instructive, for example, when your opponent's move ...b6 is a mistake on move 10, but it's the best move on move 9 (or 11). You'd probably ask "what's the difference?" and answering that is where learning happens.

I noticed this very thing playing the "Guess the Move" on ChessTempo  , drives me crazy

Over all though I really enjoy that , trying to guess what the GMs next move is and getting a computer score for variants.  When you guess the strongest computer move the GM missed you get chuffed

I guess what natarka wants is to quickly look at his big blunders in analysis and move on. So, he wants the ability to only highlight his blunders in the analysis.

yes . 

I am 100 times more interested in what I should have done rather than what my opponent should have done but didn't and limiting analysis to one color makes the PGN much easier to read.

If the overwhelming majority of players here had the choice and were familiar with limiting analysis to their own moves I'm willing to bet MOST would use it MUCH more than the default analysis for both sides.  This isn't to say it's better in any analytical sense or better for learning or anything of the kind.

What it would do is give MOST players what they are MOST interested in without having all the other stuff cluttering up the PGN making it harder to follow.  It would also be twice as fast and save server cycles. 

I'm not suggesting getting rid of deep analysis of both sides  just making the simpler option available too.   why the heck not ?

I agree with you. Analysis of your games isn’t really to find the nature of the position. It’s to look for gaps in your understanding and decision making so you don’t make the same mistakes again.

The fact that your opponent made a different choice isn’t really the point.