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I think you may be right. In my own case (I'm often the loser), I find that it's difficult for me to focus and understand post game analysis. It's almost as If the game itself took all my energy and I'm often positively exhausted. I've done a few short analyses though, some just to find out where I went so wrong. All of that said, I DO often annotate if I have a good game (I take my time on these and they often take me over two hours to do) and I let my opponent know. Sometimes we meet up on an analysis board in live on another day when I have more energy. This has all paid off. Although my standard rating is abysmal, that is because the people I play are often FAR stronger than me so I wind up losing.
I wholeheartedly agree that a good post game analysis is invaluable for improving skills. Thanks for posting.
Are you talking about online chess or blitz type games?
My mistakes are usually pretty much tactical errors so i just use a computer to evaluate the game.
I can't speak for Time4tea but I'm talking about longer time control games played in the live server for the most part but I do annotate both online and standard games. I never play blitz; I'm too old to play that fast. ;).
Hi Dr_Cris_Angel, I can understand that after a long, tough game sometimes people might not have enough energy left to analyse, and I think that's fair enough. Although, even if that's the case I think it can still be useful to discuss with my opponent about how they felt about the game and what they thought the main turning points were.
I played a good live standard game earlier and spent about 20 minutes analysing it afterwards with my opponent - we looked at quite a few interesting lines and it was very beneficial. It was actually the first time I've used the 'analyse' feature in live and it was pretty cool - I'll definitely have to use it more in future.
niceforkinmove wrote:
Are you talking about online chess or blitz type games?
My mistakes are usually pretty much tactical errors so i just use a computer to evaluate the game.
I'm talking more about standard or correspondence games. I can understand people not wanting to spend much time analysing blitz games, as they're probably just trying to get a few quick games in.
The culture here is different than other sites that I've played on. Folks tend to go to groups to analyze games, not to their opponent. Try finding a good group that will analyze games.
If you can't find one.. we've just started one a few days ago that has activity. Feel free... http://www.chess.com/groups/home/practice-with-review
Something I've been pondering about for a while now - why is it that often players on here don't want to do any post-game analysis with their opponent? I mean, whether I win or lose, I always find it interesting to discuss the game with my opponent afterwards and see what their thoughts were, why they played the moves they did, didn't play other moves, etc. Seems like it's a good opportunity to learn from each other - if I lose then I want to ask my opponent what they thought I did wrong and maybe learn something from a better player.
Does anyone else find this? I guess it could partly be because not everyone speaks English as a first language. Also, maybe the general anonymity of the internet ...