What's wrong with game analysis?

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Avatar of sprintingtochess

Hi! Once when I was doing a game review I saw that I did one blunder and I was like okay.....I saw what I did wrong. And it said, "blah blah blah is a blunder. You are losing a queen this way. Then I clicked show moves and I saw that the game analyzer lost their queen purposely! And I was like "But you did that just to make us upset!" So I think that someone should fix the analyzer so that it doesn't make mistakes like that.

Avatar of Martin_Stahl
sprintingtochess wrote:

Hi! Once when I was doing a game review I saw that I did one blunder and I was like okay.....I saw what I did wrong. And it said, "blah blah blah is a blunder. You are losing a queen this way. Then I clicked show moves and I saw that the game analyzer lost their queen purposely! And I was like "But you did that just to make us upset!" So I think that someone should fix the analyzer so that it doesn't make mistakes like that.

If the analysis gave away the queen it was because it was the best move at the depth the review made it to. That's often the he case where other options were worse.

Avatar of Hripfria202

You can use self-analysis to find out what is wrong with your thoughts. Maybe there was mate in 12 if you don't give your queen away

Avatar of sprintingtochess

Yeah. I think there's just some unknown followup move that leads to something that wins material or a checkmate.♟️

Avatar of magipi
sprintingtochess wrote:

Yeah. I think there's just some unknown followup move that leads to something that wins material or a checkmate.♟️

It is only unknown if you choose to not know it. The engine already calculated it, all you have to do is follow the line where the queen isn't sacrificed and see what happens. You can do it on the Analysis tab.

Avatar of sprintingtochess

If in the game analysis you could do self-analysis and then make that a game review, then you could see if it really was the best/excellent move.