Explore My Games

I am posting to report that this function is not working properly.

It has been stuck for about a month, roughly the same time the early May improvements were rolled out.

Thank you.

Can you provide more detail please? When you say it's not working, what does that mean? What happens when you try to explore your games? What steps are you taking? Are you getting any error messages? What is not happening that you expect to happen? Please provide as much detail as possible.

we're currently re-working games explorer and that has caused the import script to stop. we should have this fixed in the next 10 days. sorry!

richie and oprah...how is it the most helpful tool?  How exactly does it help? :)

Actually I find this very interesting as I've had it in my mind to find a way to explore my patterns with all the openings I want to play.  Currently I send every game "of interest" to computer analysis and then save them by opening on my computer.  Very antiquated but I figured I could at some point sit and crystallize all the "patterns" and tendencies of each game type.  I haven't looked at this Game Explorer but it sounds like a nice way of getting a lot of information fast.  I'm going to go have a look now.  

I'm especially curious...what sort of "patterns of thought" could emerge potentially?  Like an example of something.

With patterns of thought, I mean...what kind of ideas do you/could you spot when you become aware of this?

Will it update all the missed games, or are those gone?

I never knew this feature was there. It will be very helpful.

Ok, you're talking at a very different level...I don't have a grasp of the difference of light and dark squares...I guess their importance/character is different depending on the opening?  You're giving me some interesting things to look out for.

That's crazy! Did you come up with this yourself, or did you get it from someone? I've never heard of such a thing, but it's quite interesting... my first reaction is: absurd.  My second reaction is: I'm always playing on the light squares, aren't I?

Richie -- Very interesting and useful tips.  Thank you!  If you have time to publish an article or blog on this subject I think it would help a LOT of people.

ok

Some powerful stuff to consider and digest, thanks Richard

All that you have written here is very interesting. I tend to send all my finished games to computer analysis, but now I think I understand that that's not all. That this tool doesn't give me all the possible insight of my self way of playing; only where I made a blunder, mistake, inaccuracy. And, of course (now I think), the later is more important, is knowing your chess selfness –if the term is permitted in English (?)–.

But I don't understand the thing with the king in his or not his color. I hope you could explain it to me. Thanks.

 I agree, useful stuff...

Thanks a lot! I have never before looked at chess this way. Well, I don't read chess book or magazines, maybe that's the reason. Or this is a theory of your own. Whatever, you must submit all this as an article or post it on your blog. Regarding me, I have copied all and save it.

Now I'll go to check what does "zwischenzugs" means. Ich spreche ein bisschen Deutsch, aber not enough to wesrstanden some words.

Danke!

Answers.com did the job:

The zwischenzug (German for "intermediate move", pronounced [ˈtsvɪʃənˌtsuːk]) is a chess tactic in which a player, instead of playing the expected move (commonly a recapture of a piece that the opponent has just captured) first interpolates another move, posing an immediate threat that the opponent must answer, then plays the expected move (Hooper & Whyld 1992:460) (Golombek 1977:354). Ideally, the zwischenzug changes the situation to the player's advantage, such as by gaining material or avoiding what would otherwise be a strong continuation for the opponent.

Such a move is also called an intermezzo (Cox 2007:216), intermediate move (Kasparov 2008:208), or in-between move (Burgess 1997:494) (Horowitz & Reinfeld 1954:180-97). When the intermediate move is a check, it is sometimes called an "in-between check" (Horowitz & Reinfeld 1954:183-85), "zwischenschach" (van Perlo 2006:479), or "zwischen-check" (Mednis 1997:270).

Very interesting.

Uf! I lot to learn and study. Isn't that the reason why this Universe is interesting and worth living? (He, he!)

I will go to the databases to see Kasparov in action. Thank you!

I've just realized at my level, I have too many random blunders to even get a picture of much with the database.  Or I'll need to compile thousands more games.  :)  I'm also saving the information, thanks richie and oprah.  Nobody else just says this stuff so directly and clearly without wrapping it in a bunch of other junk.  

Same things happened to me. It took three months for mine to get unstuck from not working!