Self-Analysis

How are you supposed to do self analysis? No game review

Nobody understands your question.

How are you supposed to analyse your own games and how can you improve from studying your own games without the game review feature?

What on Earth does game review have to do with self-analysis? I still don't understand at all.

When you analyze yourself, you should analyze yourself. Without the engine.

The review function is just a tool which makes the analysis easier. When you do a normal analyse, the computer shows you three options which are the best (watch out for low depth thinking), but it just doesnt tell you why a move is good. In some cases even a lot of moves are good and it becomes a bit difficult to see what the engine is doing here. Therefore it can help to make a bad move and see the (new) analysist, so it becomes more clear why a certain move is good or bad. 

Example:

I normally play the french defense. I had a lot of trouble against whites Kf3 after a e4, e6 opening, while in my database it is by far the most popular respons. When you review, it will tell you that the regular d5 as counterplay is the best move. But this is a boring and technical line. So I constructed a different counterplay for black with analysis (the sicilian defense: french varation). Good luck trying. 

Self-anaysis means that you have analysed the position by yourself, using a board and your brains. This is different from the automated engine analysis of this site, which is not useless, but you should only use it after working on the game by yourself, and probably find out a few things you have missed.

Using just the engine assisted analysis does not make a better player- only a lazier one. 

So for like every move I should set it up on the board and try to find a better move than the one I played?

"How are you supposed to see your own mistakes and where you can improve?" phrases my question better I think

I had thought the knight was on d7 in that game. Also that one is an obvious blunder. I'm talking about how are you supposed to analyse your own games and learn from the subtle mistakes as well not just huge blunders. And then how am I supposed to spot those subtle mistakes if I don't know what they are?

Thats true but that's because just one week ago I was getting put under a lot of time pressure in most of my games and have about 2-3 min less than my opponent. I'm starting to find an in between but I don't have it yet.

Thanks for the help

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