Game review and stockfish giving inconsistent move evaluations!

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Hi all, 

I’ve been using the game review feature to have a look at my most recent matchup — it was a fun one! A bad Nimzo-Indian opening on my part, a losing middle game, then a reversal of fortunes before I gave away the win with poor bishop v. knight endgame play. Yet I’m finding it really tricky to reflect on how to improve from this game because I can’t seem to get consistent answers as to move strength. Take for example this position:


Bd2 is rated excellent, but the strongest move is bishop g5. Yet if I go back to last move and manually enter Bg5…


An inaccuracy! From best move to inaccurate!  
And if I enter the same again…



A good move! And just for good measure…


The best move! 

I did not change the engine settings to produce these different results, I just went back to the move

5. … O-O

and entered Bg5 three times. 
This wasn’t an isolated incident, the same thing happens here…


Qe2 was their recommended move instead of Bd2 (my move), yet it is only given a rating of “good”, lower than my bishop move. After giving up on the game review, I turned to the analysis bot on a different device (a tablet) and that gave new and different recommendations again. How can I improve my playing with such contradictory answers?


I’m sure this is the result of the fairly weak phone I’m using to run the analysis, but I’ve also noticed it to be a problem on iPad and PC. Has anyone else faced this? Do you guys have a “hierarchy” of how to evaluate your moves, e.g. always trusting game review over the analysis bot or vice versa? Or should I simply ignore ‘inaccuracies’ and ‘good moves’ and only trust the game review for blunders/missed tactics?

It’s a problem I’ve faced a lot, but I chose to highlight this game because it was so positional — I lost somehow with these structurally weak moves, but I can’t improve without knowing which ones! How do you folks handle this?


thanks! ☺️ 

P.S if anyone has any feedback on what the correct moves in these positions actually were, I’d be immensely grateful.

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is this the match you played against me?

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Silver_Nile13 wrote:

is this the match you played against me?

No haha, though maybe it looks a bit like it! It’s actually my most recent game against dennispw