According to Mark Dvoretsky the analysis of one’s own games is the main means of self-improvement. In Secrets of Chess Training Dvoretsky offers the following guidelines:
Find the turning points – Decide where mistakes were made, where the evaluation of the position changed or an opportunity...
[Annotator: Bronstein, David]
A weakness of the dark squares is also a weakness of the pieces and pawns on the light squares. Light-square weaknesses are also possible, resulting in a weakening of the enemy pieces on the dark squares. The point of an attack on the dark squares is that by placing my pawns...
Here’s an annotated game by Capablanca from his game Winter vs. Capablanca that took place in Hastings in 1918.
Winter vs. Capablanca 1918
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Round 1 game of the September Standard Tourney on ICC.
Round 2 game of the July Monthly Standard Tournaments on ICC.
I haven’t given up on compiling the list of educational games, but it was more difficult than I first thought. I have come up with a list of approximately 150 games from different sources, and I have narrowed it down to the 50 you see here. I tried to keep at least one version of each theme, but I...
