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rohitj84

Hi,

 Would appreciate if someone can tell me how to utilize chess.com to analyze my games. I know there is a game analysis forum, however I am required to annotate the game moves with my comments wherever possible. Is that possible someway on chess.com?

 

Thanks in advance 


PawnFork

No.  You can leave your game out on that forum, and people may leave some useful annotations.  Apart from that, if you click on "downloads", you can perhaps find a chess playing engine, download it and install it on your computer and proceed from there.  Fritz is well regarded, but it costs money.  Rybka is free and well regarded, but to use as a chess computer you need to interface a board--I think for annotations you do not need a board software.

 

You say you are "required" to annotate.  If this is for some tutor, take notes on the moves you are considering before you make the move.  I assume any chess program will tell you that it would have done every move differently.  I assume a tutor would be interested in your thoughts.

 

I do not do machine annotations myself.  Good luck.


rohitj84

Sorry, "required" was not an apt word to use there. I meant it would be useful if I annotate my games with comments before posting them on the game analysis forum. 

Thanks for the information though, didn't know about these softwares. I might try them at some point in future. 

mxdplay4 pointed me to the right direction:

 "Go to 'My Games' archive .  You see a box next to the games?  Check it with a cursor click.  Go to bottom page.  Click download pgn.  This can save the pgn (portable graphics notation) of the game to a folder you specify.

To annotate it do this.  Open a new forum topic (eg. in game analysis forum).  You notice these typing boxes have a little chess board icon ? Click on that.

Then go to game/move sequence and insert pgn.  To do this, open your pgn file using wordpad .  Highlight the text and copy and paste directly into the 'insert pgn' box.  Then go to continue.  Your game will be shown on a board.  You can annotate it there and add variations"

Please see the game below, I have added a few opening comments to illustrate the point. 

 Have a good day!