analyzing games with computer

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MrKornKid

Hi everyone.  Been playing chess for years and been a member here for quite a while.  Over the course of all this I have realized I will never learn coordinates.  But I do want to learn and understand where I went wrong in a game and stuff so if there was a way you could adjust your engine to give explanations for the moves it suggests rather then just a list of a's and 5's and shit I bet it would help more then just me.

 

Or am I stuck, so to speak, with human analysis?  Because sometimes humans don't respond.

 

Thanks

BasicChess22

It's possible it just hasn't been created yet and would be very difficult to program. Also it would be very subjective to whoever made it and would most likely only be able to do simple stuff like. "Pawn push opened bishop diagonal to queen" or something. Unless you could apply machine learning to communication based on feedback, but then we're talking about the kind of AI that is scary

Hanayaman

You don't have to understand notation to be able to understand the suggested lines... Just click on the line and move through it to play out the moves and you'll see what the computer wanted you to do.

blueemu
MrKornKid wrote:

... if there was a way you could adjust your engine to give explanations for the moves it suggests rather then just a list of a's and 5's and shit...

 

If you mean "reasons why", then no, that's not going to happen. Neural nets like Alpha Zero might have reasons for the moves they make, but brute force algorithms like Stockfish do not. They don't think, they calculate.

MickinMD

There's no computer that will say, "You should not have attacked on the King-side because your opponent was weak up the middle. So you should have move your Knight to at c5-Outpost and pushed your e- and d- Pawns."

BUT, if the chess engine with which you do your analysis picked Nc5 as your best move for 3 straight moves, it's telling you some of the same things.  When a move you make is rated much lower by the engine than an alternative, do NOT assume that's the better human move, but look at the suggested continuation.  Lucas Chess, a freebie, does an excellent job at analysis - using Stockfish 8 or other engines, and clicking on a move it has analyzed reveals the various moves it considered, it's ratings of them, and the continuation it expected with them.