Chess for Beginners

Analyzing Your Games

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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:

  1. Find the turning points – Decide where mistakes were made, where the evaluation of the position changed or an opportunity was missed.
  2. Seek the reasons for your own mistakes – The objective realization of your own weaknesses is a necessary first step in the work of correcting them.
  3. Seek new possibilities, which you did not notice during the game.
  4. Ponder over the opening stage – Approach the problems you faced during the opening to increase your knowledge and outline new plans.

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2 responses to “Analyzing Your Games”

  1. Steve Wollkind Avatar
    Steve Wollkind

    This is pretty much the main reason I blog my chess games: it gives me a motivation to analyze them and write them up in enough detail that someone who isn’t really a chess player could follow my thinking process. I rarely bother to annotate anything faster than G/45 though, since those games are basically all tactics (which certainly has value) but little to talk about in the way of plans and ideas.

  2. ernieernster1 Avatar
    ernieernster1

    Interesting goals for analyzing, I’ll try it.

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