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How to ANALYSE Chess Games you played (A Guide to Chess.com Analysis)








Hello people, just a note for you, if you are like not interested in chess content or apparently think you are a grandmaster in chess, you can totally just press Alt+F4 on your computer or you can just turn off your phone, I think you really do not need these. This guide is more for those who are unaware of how to use the analyse function in chess.com. Here is a guide for you.


If you are on a PC

Firstly, you can go to your profile and go to Games and pick anyone of your previous games you have played on chess.com and either press "Analysis" or "Game Report". Both work.


If you are on a phone

I would advise you to change to a computer as this will be more of a computer guide but you technically just go to your previous games and press "Analysis" or "Game Report". Both work.


So now, you can go to your analysis board in the "Learn" Section of the WEBSITE ONLY and press "Load PGN" and copy this inside to get an insight into my game.


[Event "Live Chess"]

[Site "Chess.com"]

[Date "2021.09.10"]

[Round "-"]

[White "smiley0668"]

[Black "HassanAlreah"]

[Result "1-0"]

[CurrentPosition "1R2kr2/R6p/1p1p1p2/5n2/3B4/3K4/PP3PrP/8 b - -"]

[Timezone "UTC"]

[ECO "B00"]

[ECOUrl "https://www.chess.com/openings/Kings-Pawn-Opening-Owens-Defense-2.d4"]

[UTCDate "2021.09.10"]

[UTCTime "15:21:02"]

[WhiteElo "1243"]

[BlackElo "1122"]

[TimeControl "900+10"]

[Termination "smiley0668 won by checkmate"]

[StartTime "15:21:02"]

[EndDate "2021.09.10"]

[EndTime "15:43:20"]

[Link "https://www.chess.com/game/live/25026120239"]


1. e4 b6 2. d4 e6 3. Nc3 Bb7 4. Nf3 Bb4 5. Bd2 Bxc3 6. Bxc3 Bxe4 7. Ne5 Qg5 8.

Bd2 Qf5 9. g4 Qf6 10. g5 Qf5 11. Rg1 Bxc2 12. Qc1 d6 13. Nc4 Ba4 14. Bg2 Bc6 15.

Bxc6+ Nxc6 16. Be3 Nb4 17. Ke2 Qd3+ 18. Kf3 Qf5+ 19. Bf4 Nd3 20. Qe3 Qd5+ 21.

Ke2 Qxc4 22. Qxd3 Qxd3+ 23. Kxd3 O-O-O 24. Rac1 e5 25. Be3 exd4 26. Bxd4 f6 27.

gxf6 gxf6 28. Rce1 Rf8 29. Rg7 Nh6 30. Ree7 Nf5 31. Rxc7+ Kd8 32. Rgd7+ Ke8 33.

Rxa7 Rhg8 34. Rdb7 Rg2 35. Rb8# 1-0


You can stop copying from here chill yes it ends here.


Ok so I have pressed "Game Report" and when it loads up, you will see something looking like the below image

My Accuracy: 87.4

Opponent's Accuracy: 28.8

As you can see, I have made:

0 Brilliant Moves (The best an "tricky to find" move)

20 Best Moves (What the Chess Engine agrees as its top choice)

3 Excellent Moves (Almost as good as a Best Move)

2 Good Moves (A decent move but not the best, technically just an OKOK move)

3 Book Moves (A conventional opening move)

2 Inaccuracies (A Weak Move)

1 Mistake (A Bad Move that IMMEDIATELY Worsens your Position)

2 Blunders (A VERY BAD move that could Lose Material or End the Game) and

2 Missed Wins (A Move was MISSED that Would have WON MATERIAL OR the GAME)


Symbols

Brilliant: !!

Inaccuracy: ?!

Mistake: ?

Blunder: ??

Missed Win: -


Analysing my Game

I am playing white by the way.


1. e4 b6

2. d4 e6

3. Nc3 Bb7

4. Nf3 Bb4

5. Bd2 Bxc3

6. Bxc3 Bxe4

7. Ne5 Qg5

8. Bd2 Qf5

9. g4 Qf6

10. g5? Qf5

11. Rg1 Bxc2

12. Qc1?! d6??

13. Nc4 Ba4?

14. Bg2- Bc6??

15. Bxc6+ Nxc6

16. Be3?? Nb4??

17. Ke2?? Qd3+

18. Kf3 Qf5+

19. Bf4 Nd3??

20. Qe3- Qd5+

21. Ke2?! Qxc4?

22. Qxd3 Qxd3+

23. Kxd3 O-O-O

24. Rac1 e5

25. Be3 exd4?

26. Bxd4 f6?!

27. gxf6 gxf6

28. Rce1 Rf8

29. Rg7 Nh6??

30. Ree7 Nf5?

31. Rxc7+ Kd8??

32. Rgd7+ Ke8 (forced move)

33. Rxa7 Rhg8

34. Rdb7 Rg2

35. Rb8#

1-0


Now let us look at this first mistake made by me

9. g4 Qf6

10. g5? Qf5


Pawn to g5 was a mistake...Why?

As you can see, when you push Pawn to g5, the Queen can just come down to f5 to apply pressure on the pawn and in addition, my rook is actually still hanging! Thus the computer thinks this move is a mistake as it is just a 1 move attacking move.


Instead, as you can see, the computer suggests h4 as the best move. Imagine I had played h4 right...

Ok so at this point I will be like "Computer please just shut up, I would never in a million, a zillion years play this move h4 ok, shush you don't know anything about chess. This game plan is one of Eric Rosen's trick, go watch his "Oh No" videos, very nice.


The game plan is to actually play Pawn to h4 and say "Oh No, My Rook!" and just put bishop on the g5 square. The Queen is now trapped and anywhere it goes it is just going to be taken, it is actually a trap for black's Queen and one of the best moves is to either take the bishop or the knight but computer recommends taking the "more active" bishop since the Queen is done for no matter what it does so just at least take something right.


Now let us look at the inaccuracy made my me and the blunder made by my opponent:

11. Rg1 Bxc2

12. Qc1?! d6??

The computer was thinking that maybe we would just let the Knight take the Pawn for free and we can develop a Rook to attack Black's Queen in the future and we still may be able to protect the hanging pawn with the bishop while black reinforces his Knights, at the same time developing them.


How did my opponent make a blunder after my inaccurate move though?

While Pawn to d6 looks like a good move, attacking the Knight, it actually is not that good as now the Knight retreats back to g4 and would want to play Ne3, forking the Queen and Bishop so that it will win one of the pieces.


Let us now look at this:

13. Nc4 Ba4?

14. Bg2- Bc6??

So now Black made a move Ba4 on move 13 which was mistake.

Chess does need a lot of calculation and visualisation and here, we can have a brilliant sacrifice of a Knight, the Pawn will take the Knight, the Queen will manage to infiltrate into Black's territory with a check, black King moves up, gets check with Qb7+ and takes the rook as the King moves down or blocks with the bishop. Now the Queen has infiltrated and has gotten a good chance of actually winning while it threatens to take the Knight on b8.


So, Bg2- means it was a missed win and the way to have won his just above, that is why it was called a missed win.


But how did Black just blunder again with a simple bishop move Bc6 that looks like simple trade? Let's find out.


There are 2 possible ways this will end up.

First,

After both Bishops are taken, the Knight jumps in and takes the d6 Pawn, forking the Queen and King but Black knows that if he takes the Knight with the Pawn, White Queen will infiltrate so he moves his King up and sacrifices his Queen.


Second,

The same thing but when the Knight jumps in to take d6, Black is either unafraid or unaware that after Pawn takes Knight, White Queen delivers a check by taking the Knight on c6 that had previously taken the Bishop, forks the King and the Rook. The Black King is forced to move up as he does not want to be checked again and the Queen takes the Rook on a8.


Let us look at what is wrong with these moves:

15. Bxc6+ Nxc6

16. Be3?? Nb4??

17. Ke2?? Qd3+

The only reason why Be3 is a blunder is because it just makes White lose all of its advantage and black can have the play, Black can attack the Knight the Pawn is not very well protected etc.


Then what's wrong with the opponent responding with Nb4?

The reason why Nb4 is such a stupid move is because of Qc3, which targets the Black Knight and if Black plays c5, you can simply just take the pawn to protect the knight, you simply take and the idea is to go Nd6 if Black makes a smarter move, like d5, threatening your Knight, you can take the Black Knight although the point is to prevent Nd6 by taking my Knight with the Pawn that was originally on d5.


Ke2 seems like a blunder too, to a check with the Black Queen. Let us analyse this

Ok so I don't even know why I moved that I mean I am dumb ok shush, I don't know chess ok. Anyways, it is bad firstly because I did not attack the Black Knight and secondly that my King is fully exposed and due to the fact that I did not attack the Black Knight, I allowed Black to infiltrate into White's territory and checking my King. So that is just like you are walking backwards towards a guy who is pointing a gun at you.



18. Kf3 Qf5+

19. Bf4 Nd3??

20. Qe3- Qd5+

21. Ke2?! Qxc4?


Here are the next few lines.

Yet again, the best move is again Nd6 and after being taken, there is a fork with Qc6, which just wins material because of this King and Rook fork. Very savage line... This is also why Qe3 is a missed win...

Ke2 is a rather weak move as the Black Knight can sacrifice itself for the Bishop and after my Queen takes the Black Knight, the Black Queen can take my Knight with Qc4+ check, which is crazy as it weakens my King's position and wins material although it is just an inaccuracy.



Qc4 is a mistake but it is actually not that bad but Black could have won more material as stated previous but Black chose to take my Knight first and that may have caused a Queen trade and although it is not that advantageous for White, since Black is up material, White can still work on a kingside attack.


25. Be3 exd4?

26. Bxd4 f6?!


Firstly that is a mistake, because, when I take with the bishop then I see the diagonal e5, f6, g7 and h8 where the rook is, where I would likely attack on the next move if the opponent blunders it.

Firstly, Black just voluntary gives away a pawn although not for free but just immediately gives away its control of the 7th rank and you let White take the open e-file which is just not good at all for your position.


29. Rg7 Nh6??

30. Ree7 Nf5?

31. Rxc7+ Kd8??

32. Rgd7+ Ke8 (forced move)

33. Rxa7 Rhg8

34. Rdb7 Rg2

35. Rb8#

1-0

Here are the last few moves before I win the game


So you see, the Knight that used to be guarding the e7 square, prevented my rook from moving there to attack but Nh6 is just a total blunder that immediately weakens your already severely weakened King and the rook is also threatening to take the c7 pawn with check as well.


Ok now 1100s You've got to stop doing this, all those mistakes that we made before were forgivable but, thinking that Nf5 is a fork, is just not real. You are about to lose some material and Rxc7+ is check bro and it is just escaping the fork so no stop, 1100s wake up...!


OK Mr. 1122, who do you think you are like, a GM, that just makes White's advantage increase from just 8.48, to a whopping 58.9 technically 59 and like that is just a losing move cause my 2 Rooks control the whole 7th rank. Ok, no questions asked, a definitely losing position for Black.


Just because of that 1 Blunder by Black, I checkmated Black way faster and I won 1-0!
























































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