Step by step. Analysis of your own chess games.

Why do you need to analyze games?

• Develop a habit for the brain
• Expanding your mind horizons

It's like running in the morning. Running helps your body get used to physical activity. The more you run, the stronger you get. Game analysis helps your brain get used to the loads.

About mind horizons. During the game, you might not see some interesting move. And during the analysis it is visible. Each analysis will give you another interesting move.

How to analyze your game?

Step 0. Relax. Get ready for work. Believe in yourself

The most important thing. This is your analysis. You do it for yourself. For your growth, your development.
No one will blame you for this, condemn, beat you - no matter how stupid the analysis you do.
Personally, I think you are handsome (or beautiful) if you start doing game analysis. You go to success.

Step 1. Don't touch the computer analysis.

...computer analysis, hints, and any help from outside.
Your own brains will dry up because of this, and I will condemn you.

Just imagine, somewhere out there, in a distant country, a guy is sitting, and condemningly looks at how you pressed the computer analysis button, first of all, without thinking with your brains. Horror.

Step 2. Watching the entire game

You just click move after move, at an average pace, and look for the answer to the question: "Where are obvious mistakes made on my part or on the part of the opponent?"

A mistake, or a blunder, roughly means: "Oh! Here I could put a fork and take the queen. And here he could checkmate me ... But here, I forgot to castle."

Try to find at least one thing. For starters, this will be enough. With each new analysis, you will become better and better. And you will reach the top.

Step 3. Write a comment on the move

It's very cool, deep, and you become Kasparov, Karpov, Bobby Fischer, Emanuel Lasker. You can describe any of your thoughts.
"Here I had an idea, to put a knight, and bring the queen, and checkmate. But the next move, the opponent refutes all this."

Step 4. Try to find a better move

Try to find a better move. Whatever he is.
Here you counted: "This move by the knight is stupid."
Suggest: "So, in theory, this move with the bishop is the best."

Step 5. Praise yourself

After you've done your job. Well done! Praise yourself. You are probably only in the 5% of chess players who work so hard on chess. And soon your work will bring super profit.

Step 6. You can involve a third-party resource in the analysis

Now you can turn on computer analysis or supplement your analysis with the opinion of your grandfather, trainer, sparring partner.

The computer will immediately show where there were still some opportunities or gaps that you did not notice. But at 6 step, it is already beneficial. You have already done everything you could. Now the master came and showed where else to look. For this I do not blame.

Briefly, the analysis is:

• Think for yourself (+100 IQ)
• Where did both players make obvious mistakes? (+20 ELO)
• How could you play better? (+50 ELO)
• What prospects were revealed in this case? (+80 ELO)

Bonus! For the most grateful readers:

Correspondence game.

This is the most incredible discovery for me in 2022.
Correspondence games are really different. And they teach precisely analysis.
You take it, you look for 5 opponents in correspondence games, and that's it.
Your life will never be the same.
When you have 2 days to go.
When you look at the board every day like it's something new.
When you have to rewind 3-4 moves back to understand what you were doing and what idea you had.
When you can discuss with your partner politics in Uruguay, and his views on the problem of the a3 move, at the beginning of the game.

Analysis of the masters games.

It turns out that your plan for the year as a chess player should have this item:
Analyze 4-5 batches of masters within one year.
Wow.
You take the game of Kasparov against Kramnik. And that's it. 3 months without hearing a sound from you.

You don't come back until there is: your detailed analysis and your personal view of this game!
Each move: 1. Commented 2. Recorded 3. Realized 4. Showed to friends

I hope you enjoyed reading, you learned a lot of new and interesting things :)
Thanks!