Help! I want to be able to assess an individual game for play quality

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Pimapom

I would love to know when I play a really good game. I know that I can get a great analysis on chess.com showing blunders, inaccuracies and mistakes but I want something more detailed. Is there a computer program out there that can take a pgn compilation and assess the games against the best moves that a very strong engine would play and give them a rating out of a 100. This would allow me to find the best games that I have played. Does anyone know of such a thing?

notmtwain
Thetrouncer wrote:

I would love to know when I play a really good game. I know that I can get a great analysis on chess.com showing blunders, inaccuracies and mistakes but I want something more detailed. Is there a computer program out there that can take a pgn compilation and assess the games against the best moves that a very strong engine would play and give them a rating out of a 100. This would allow me to find the best games that I have played. Does anyone know of such a thing?

I have seen threads that propose rating the moves of individual games but I don't believe that they are any good yet. (See http://www.chess.com/forum/view/general/new-chess-rating-system-based-on-single-moves-evaluation )

Even if such a thing becomes available it would take a mountain of work to go through your 10,000 games.

Chances are good that your best games are your wins against much higher rated players. Your blitz rating is 1207. I see you beat somebody rated 1679. Take a look at that game.  With nearly 10,000 blitz games, it will probably take you a while to find it in your archives. You may have won that game owed to a terrible blunder or a time forfeit or disconnect but some game where you beat a much higher rated player will probably be your best. 

VLaurenT

Lichess.org - look for the import game function - gives you an acl #, the lower, the better according to the engine.

# will vary according to game difficulty though, so a higher acl versus a stronger opponent might denote better game than a low acl against a much weaker opponent.

u0110001101101000

Interesting idea.

Although by that measure your "best" game would probably be some 20 move crush of a really weak player where they blundered a lot of things and you played the "best" moves by simply capturing them.

So if someone were to program this you'd want to also be able to sort the list by rating and game length.

VLaurenT

Well, I believe the best evaluation of human play is by human titled players (they know what is most important), but for people looking for an easy-to-use tool, it's quite okay, provided you know its limitations.

u0110001101101000

Sure, I'd rather have titled players sort my games any day.

But it might cost more than I'm willing to pay if I want them to look through 1000 games :)

Pimapom

Thank you all for answering! I did see a post on the internet that mentions that chess-db.com has this function but I couldn't find it. Notmtwain I'll have a look at that chess.com thread and I also take on board that my wins against high rated players should be my best games but I'd love to know what my best ever game was and this would need computer crunching. Hicetnunc thank you too for the lichess info, I'll take a look at that too, it sounds like exactly what I am looking for. 00110... What I propose would evaluate both sides moves and so blunders by others would lower the overall game quality rating. It was actually an assessment by an IM of some over the board games that prompted this. I thought I had played a couple of great games even after I had self analysed them but the IM very quickly showed me some missed opportunities (I blogged about them on my chessluddite.com blog). Anyway thank you all once again for all your answers!