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LamarEckstein

I am a chess coach for a high school team. I had hoped that I would be able to input my players games here (with membership) and be able to analyze their games. 

I can't find a way to do that on this site.

Does anyone have  suggestion as to how to do that here or a suggestion of a program I can purchase? 

Martin_Stahl

That is not a current feature on site. There are some sites it can be done but I would suggest using a free set of programs.

 

I use SCID vs PC and Stockfish for most of my post-game analysis. It has a little but of a learning curve but both pieces are free.

LamarEckstein

I have played with Arena but the Analysis isn't as translatable to students as the chess.com "mistake" and "blunder" set up. Ideas?

Martin_Stahl

Well, there might be a way to tell it how to annotate that. Basically, the mistake and blunder is just a score difference threshold. So, a mistake may be defined as a score change of greater than .75 and a blunder may be a change of 1.5 or more.

 

I'm not really familiar with Arena. I've installed it before but it didn't really fit my use case (though I may have been able to get it to work). Some other tools that will allow you to define the level of mistake and blunder and output that instead of ?? and ? or just scores.

TempleKnight

I believe in teaching chess students the chess vocabulary from the start. I can use the game editor here on chess.com and print out the game with regular annotations.

I see that your blitzrating is 1141 as of today, and that's a rating I would expect from a class A player IRL in OTB games. Try it out.

Martin_Stahl
YoungPatzer wrote:

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I see that your blitzrating is 1141 as of today, and that's a rating I would expect from a class A player IRL in OTB games. Try it out.

 

Your Class A must be a lot different than a USCF Class A. 

 

Here, that would be a player rated 1800-1999.

LamarEckstein

First, let's be clear, I am NOT an A player. I am just a teacher who enjoys chess enough to volunteer his time to let kids play.

I do like the Scid vs Pc but I was wanting a way that we could print off a list sequence for a whole game not just one move at a time. Is there some way to alter the format so we can view a whole game?

Martin_Stahl

One of the Windows/tabs is the PGN. That will show the whole game. 

TempleKnight
Martin_Stahl wrote:

 Your Class A must be a lot different than a USCF Class A. 

 

Here, that would be a player rated 1800-1999.

Well, at least class A players are not the same here as they are in our neighbour country Norway. I have beaten swedish 1800 players, but never a norwegian above 1600.

LamarEckstein

I got the PGN list, no problem. what I meant was a list of analysis. 

so it goes right with the move list until a mistake/blunder then a suggested course. Then back to move list until the next mistake blunder. 

I have students capable of deciphering the possible moves as they go through a game but i want a more compact version they can do without a CPU and easier to read through so time isn't a factor. 

Torkil

If I make so bold, I'd suggest quitting the idea of computer analysis altogether.

If you can get your team players to sit together and analyse their games, trying to find improvements, I think that would be much more fruitful than just reading an automatically generated scoresheet, even if they might arrive at some wrong conclusions at times. Of course the help of a stronger player to prod them along the right course would be of some merit, too.

LamarEckstein

Solid Suggestion Torkil.

I kinda do that now. just looking for a way to analysis as homework as well. Looks like it might be a fruitless search. 

I still remember the classis Chess Master video game "better would have been". Those were the days. 

LamarEckstein

For any one following lichess.org has what I wanted.