Which software will 'score' my games?

I'm looking for a computer program which will analyse my games and give them some kind of score - perhaps like the Chess.Com gives a summary of Inaccuracies, blunder, etc.

Anyone know of such a beast?

Steve

I am not aware of any that will score a total game, but any decent program will score the moves with an automated analysis mode and post the suggested variation.

I suggest you check out scidvspc. It will do automated analysis of entire databases, so you can let it scan all of your games overnight.

Another option is a program called LucasChess. I can do this a well and also create a training module to present the positions back to you like the Tactics Trainer here.

Honestly you should try both. They are open source so the only thing it will cost you is your time.

Thanks for those suggestions - I'll try them out.

In the meantime, does anyone have any other suggestions?

steve

"Full analysis" in Fritz13 will give you a complete score and there is an option to choose "verbose" which will add plain text notes as well.

There are a couple of excellent free programs that can analyze all your games in one run.  Try Lucas Chess or SCID (preferably the fork SCID vs. PC, though SCID itself is quite usable as well).  I would give a strong recommendation to Lucas Chess just because it does so many other awesome things and is under pretty steady development right now.  Also, the author is very receptive to new ideas and listens to feedback.

Thanks guys but does any of those give them some kind of score - perhaps like the Chess.Com gives a summary of Inaccuracies, blunder, etc.

That's what I'm really after.

Steve

The suggestion that I gave does that.  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iRMkmaKVFRs

@chungle    I've analysed games with Frittz before but I can't see any scroing for performance or rating or anything. I've been through that video again but it isn't mentioned. What a, I missing? Where is the performance score displayed? HAve you seen how Chess.Com's computer summarises your performance in an analysed game?

Steve

Yes, that is what we mean by analyzing.

>>Yes, that is what we mean by analyzing

It's not anlaysing that I'm asking for, it providing a performance score that I'm asking about - see first post.

Steve

Honestly I can't think of a total game score. Chessmaster used to post a percentage of moves that matched the PV of the engine - I think CM 7000 was the last time I used that GUI. I believe the Aquarium UI would do this also. Other than that, I don't know of any programs that will analyze all moves and provide a summary of the entire game.

Lucas Chess gives several performance statistics (what you would call a score, I guess) at the end of analysis, as well as a score after each move (which is standard for game analysis).  I recommend trying it out.  It really is fantastic software.

Chessmaster does what you are asking, but it fails to correctly identify the key turning point in the game. Fritz is better. See http://chessskill.blogspot.com/2009/12/chessmaster-versus-fritz-analysis.html and http://chessskill.blogspot.com/2009/12/chessmaster-nonsense.html.

Hmm.  Isn't the fact you won or gained rating points the performance of that particular game -- I don't mean to be obtuse and I have glanced at a game my wife had Chess.com analyse but didn't make particular note of a summary as such.  I'll ask to have a look again later.  Generally speaking, one of the proffessional products is most often used to task with no slight to alternatives intended because they can serve quite well. 

Here is an example of a game analyzed buy Lucas Chess using the stockfish engine (I only set it to 1 second of analysis per half move, so the quality isn't great, but the information reported is what I wanted to demonstrate).  It has exceptionally clear analysis and lots of statistics given at the end.  I'm not sure what else one would want or need.  It can do batch analysis of large numbers of games quite easily, too.

Nice - that must be in the latest version. I hadn't seen it yet. Lucaschess is the best GUI available for training and analysis in my opinion. I just wish it would do a free running analysis. Analyzing moves gets a little cumbersome with a new window for each move.

I have Chess King and I believe it fulfills your requirements. Unfortunately this is not free, you have to pay cash money--US Dollars, not Confederate-- for it.

I thought I had a copy of just about every GUI out there.  I didn't see Lucas Chess at all.  Maybe I had it once and didn't like it, so I deleted it.

I took a moment and downloaded it just now.  Wow!  There's a lot of stuff here.  Lots to look at.  I already see several things I'm impressed with.

I'm testing the Analysis feature now, in the background, as I type this.

how did you copy the board

Re: Lucas Chess

I don't quite understand these "points."  For example, the anlysis option

"Is considered wrong move when the loss of points is greater than:"

is set to 50 by default.  What is that? 

I'm looking at a positon and I've got the kibitzer on and it gives  evaluations of this position as "238 upperbound" or "266 lowerbound."  Again, what is that?  Is the engine's evaluation being converted into "points" and if so, is there a way to change the display so it just shows the actual engine's evaluation?