the big question regarding WHY

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Hi all,

with the plan to improve my chess game, I bought the premium version. Being able to analyse an unlimited number of games is an essential foundation. But what I still find completely lacking is the ability not only to see the best move, but above all to understand the "why" behind it. Am I just too blind to find it, or is this added value simply not there?

To be honest, I often find it difficult to understand why this or that move is the right one and not another one.

As long as you don't really understand the "concepts", I at least find it very difficult to identify the right keys and thus improve.

Thank you in advance for your brief feedback.
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The Game Review quickly points you to a position as where you lost your last game.

As you can see above, the game evaluation suddenly went in your opponent's favor about two thirds of the way through the game.

If you look at that area, you see your one big decisive blunder the little red dot. If you click to the last dot before it, it brings you to this position:

You played Re5, which it says was a blunder. Why was it a blunder?

It shows the threat on your knight. You can either defend it or move it. You probably saw the reason you have to be careful if you moved it. The threat of back rank mate was probably the main "why" driving your choice.

So you chose to defend it with your rook. But that was a blunder

because 27 f4 and 28 g4 forced you to abandon the defense of your knight.

It suggests 26..Nf6 as an alternative.

Can you see why it would be a better move than 26.. Re5? Does it still cover the back rank mate threat? Does it also cover the threat of rook infiltration to your 7th rank?


/ Explaining all that to you at each and every position would be extraordinarily difficult. I think that it gives you the tools to spot the problems and to help you figure out some of the more obvious "whys."

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