How to Analyze your own games if you play what you know?
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TrevorK1990
Aug 30, 2024
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I’m struggling with the idea of analyzing my own games. How do you do it if you are already playing what you perceive to be the best move? I’d like to analyze without an engine, but how? I’m talking about slow games with no time pressure like dailies, etc.
TrevorK1990 wrote:
I’m struggling with the idea of analyzing my own games. How do you do it if you are already playing what you perceive to be the best move? I’d like to analyze without an engine, but how? I’m talking about slow games with no time pressure like dailies, etc.
When talking about analysing your own games we usually mean analysing them afterwards to undertand what happened in the game and which of your ideas worked and which did not. Sometimes what you perceive to be the best turns out not to actually be the best. Concentrate on the cases where things do not go as planned and try to understand what you did wrong and what you could have done better. For example, when you fail to win a promissing endgame or loose an equal looking one or if you get into bad position try to undertand how you could have played better to avoid that.
Sometimes the improvements can be very obvious and sometimes they can also be very non-obvious and hard to find but the process of analysing is bound to improve your chess regardless.