Hi!
I wanna share a message I find usefull:
http://games.groups.yahoo.com/group/Chess_Improvement/message/1226
(or the shorter link http://tinyurl.com/2cogv)
The thread started with warped_steel asking How do I dive into game analysis?. The message content:
I have read to get better you need to analyze your games.
Who should do it, a computer, higher rated player, or my self?
Should you analyze every game or only games you loose?
How do you go about analyzing your game by yourself? What do you
look for? Is their a systematic approach?
What are your thoughts about this topic (a methodology to analyse chess games)?
P.S.: Sorry for the engrish.
I use two methods. One is after the bloodbath is over to just put the game into CM9k and then play through it and look for bad moves, blunders, etc.
The other way is even better though. I have a friend that's a better player than I am. After we play, and I usually lose, we go over the game move by move. Explaining why we made the move and looking for a better one if it's there.
In that method I get to see what he sees on the board and hear his ideas on what he was trying to accomplish. Plus I'm sharing my plans and seeing where I played well and where I maybe went wrong. It's a good discussion.
They've both been a tremendous help over the last year since I started getting "serious" about improving my chess playing. Well that and a few dozen books on chess helped too.
Wib🙂
I don't put my games into a computer until i have already been through them myself prperly.
If i lost the game i'll got through the game and find the point where i started loosing (the point where my opponent played a move i didn't consider properly)
I will work out what i feel the correct move should have been. I will then go through the game and try and find all the mistakes i made, FINDING THE RIGHT MOVE MYSELF. Only once i happy i can't improve the analysis any more myself will i load it into a computer TO CHECK MY ANALYSIS.
If you load your games into a computer straight away you will learn very little, it is only when you find the correct moves yourself that you will improve (coming from a 1550 odd player this may sound a bit rich but i have improved my general rating bby 400 points this year by following this line of thought).
Peace
J@Ymz~>*