Is game review a good way to analyze games ?
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#2, but he told when he was 400 elo.
Game review is good, but you can also invoke then engine with the bottom left icon,
or even analyse the old fashioned way with just a board and pieces.
It is not enough to swallow the vague "You were better in this endgame - now you're worse", you have to identify your mistakes, especially your decisive mistake, and see for yourself why it is a mistake and what was the right move and why. Then you will not forget.
Here is an example:
https://www.chessgames.com/perl/chessgame?gid=1008390
52... Rh8? instead of 52...Rh5 was a mistake, as 53 Rc7+ instead of 53 Kxb5? would have won.
Fischer commented: 'I stayed up all night analysing, finally convincing myself and, incidentally, learning a lot about Rook and Pawn endings in the process'
That was long before engines and that was how Fischer became so proficient in endgames.
I am wondering whether game review actually is a good way to analyze your games. Sometimes after completing a game review I still have some unanswered questions in mind.
A good example of this was a game I played when I was 400 elo. It was a king and pawn endgame. As it turned out, I had only one move to play to put my opponent in Zugzwang. I played another move and the game was now a draw. The Game review engine just said "You were better in this endgame - now you're worse" Not helpful at all for a 400 elo like me that didn't have a clue to what Zugzwang was.
Are there any better ways to analyze games ? Please don't tell me to pay a coach, I'm not doing that.