I don't think even Stockfish understands its own recommendation

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Game situation:

What I actually did (mistake according to Stockfish). Recommends Rf8 instead:

Playing about with other moves just to see what Stockfish thought of them. This one is a blunder, and Stockfish recommends.... the move that I actually did, which it said was a mistake.

Can someone explain why Stockfish can't agree with itself?

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PsychoSavager wrote:

Game situation:

What I actually did (mistake according to Stockfish). Recommends Rf8 instead:

Playing about with other moves just to see what Stockfish thought of them. This one is a blunder, and Stockfish recommends.... the move that I actually did, which it said was a mistake.
Can someone explain why Stockfish can't agree with itself?

That's actually not uncommon in some positions but you're also looking at the output of different versions of the engine and very likely different depths

When you're in Game Review a retry runs on the Cloud using your configured engine which is probably defaulted to Stockfish and on the server it's Stockfish 16 NNUE.

On the Analysis tab, you're running Stockfish 11 (not NNUE).