Tips for Analyzing your Chess Games

In this video, I answer a viewer question and provide some practical tips for saving and analyzing your chess games using lichess.org/study
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[@KrisPeter]

Would like to see you analyse one of your recent serious games and see how you identify areas of improvement.

[@polyexp]

my games' graphs look like sin(x)

[@bobsi3769]

more like sin(10x)

[@jumbo6498]

@@bobsi3769 Perhaps 10sin(x)

[@whisper3856]

F

[@ShubhamKumar-ex3nk]

Mine is sin(2pi/3)*cos(pi/4)

[@pinjam5927]

Maybe matrice 0

[@Tazer183]

Eric: "go through the game and comment what was going through your mind" Me: loses material also Me: "oh didn't see that"

[@alexalexanderman1238]

my thought exactly.

[@mjacton]

Okay but why did you make the move in the first place?

[@Tazer183]

@@mjacton brother this is 4y ago. but i would have better answers as to why now Xd

[@isaamalhabash1291]

This was awesome! I've always followed your games here but never on twitch; it's just easier to watch here on my own time. I've never quite gotten how I can improve my game, although when I watch your games everything you do and say makes so much sense, it somehow never occurs to me when I'm playing. So I really appreciate the video. I'd hope that you'd share more educational content with us as you're super good at it! Thanks again; keep up the great games!

[@YourName_2023]

Great video! My other reccomendations: 1. Books for ~1600 players to read to improve 2. Ponziani opening with a few lines 3. London middlegame plans for white Thanks again and have a great day :D

[@fibonacci5643]

i found this very useful! i’ve just recently started analyzing my games games on my own in hopes to learn and improve so these were amazingly timed tips thank you!

[@FtD2022]

That is propably the video of yours that has improved my chess the most until now. It is really awesome that you keep giving that great lessons for free to KZbin and help people create a plan how to approach difficult tasks like game analysis without an engine.

[@tai_af]

eric blundering the word opponent

[@eric-rosen]

😳

[@madouken]

It was a thematic sacrifice

[@BurningPast]

This was great. There’s a ton I don’t understand about lichess, all the features & what they do. It was great when you took us through the study. This is not as strictly chess oriented as much as helping us understand the tools. I, for one, would love more of it.

[@bencegobl310]

This was very useful, thank you Eric, you are awesome! God bless you!

[@killectro]

I know you've done 1-off versions where you record your students' training sessions but it would be great if you had a recurring segment of this type. Diving into someone's game(s) using the methods you described here and showing it in practice. That would definitely help me build a better understanding of how to do deeper analyses.

[@NestanSvensk]

This was very helpful. If you're taking suggestions, I would like a short introduction on how to study openings effectively.

[@BauKim]

Really appreciate these type of videos. As an beginner who has an hour a day, what would be your suggestions for ways to enjoy/practice?

[@Twas-RightHere]

Yes, this was very valuable for me. More teaching videos like this would be greatly appreciated!

[@drewkilpin103]

I'd love to see you commentate famous games, like that karpov game you briefly looked at. Id find that to be very educational and very entertaining.

[@bonniejunk]

Kasparov?

[@drewkilpin103]

Yeah that one

[@mikecantreed]

Karpov Kasparov basically the same player. Can barely distinguish their styles from one another.

[@RunningGag1987]

Watching this in 2024! Awesome resource to improving my game as a beginner. Thanks Eric!

[@JFresh1977]

Eric, would you consider doing a stream where subbers can post a game they recently played and then you analyze it on stream?

[@VaSavoir2007]

Hubner once recommended one analyse each of one's games for a hundred hours. I enjoy analysing my game much more with a physical board than if I use the computer and feel I learn much more. What do you think of both these statements please? I'd rather use the computer either never or after I've done absolutely all I can on my own, but this may be a mistaken approach. Thank you.

[@georgestamps]

Thanks for all the great uploads! Any videos on utilizing Chessbase would be helpful as it seems there is quite a steep learning curve...

[@AFeigenbaum1]

Thanks for this video ... I am a lowly rated player looking for how to improve my rating ... I obviously make many blunders over the course of a few dozen games ... my goal next is to focus just on blunders to find out how they happen and what I need to do to eliminate them ... this video addresses that and gives me a direction to start my studies ... I don't currently use Lichess for studies so I'll look into that as a tool ... thanks again ... anything else along these lines would be great ...

[@thomasrowley6643]

Thank you for this video. Yours tips are very useful!

[@luisb9862]

Thank you Im not always on twitch but I check out all of your yt content at my free time

[@2Niips]

i just started playing and use lichess and was trying to figure out how to do it and this helped a lot... hurt the ego seeing all those blenders.. but still helped xD

[@marinoguzman8489]

Thanks eric great video I hope to use your tips to improve my chess analysis

[@lagerbaer]

Thanks for answering my question in twitch chat. Much appreciated!

[@venkystanley9180]

Need more videos like these, which teaches something to the subscribers, instead of plain blitz action :)

[@shadamethyst1258]

It is very valuable, thanks!

[@jimromero5625]

Can you explain how to sensibly understand games with extensive side lines shown? I normally get bogged down in the confusing-ness?

[@danielnewby2255]

Ignore them if they confuse you too much. They're side lines. If the primary annotation you have for a game is calculated alternative lines and you can't follow them, then it's not the right annotation for you. If you have an otherwise good annotation that says something like "instead [moves]", the point is to either see some key move that's difficult to calculate (it should be annotated) or to evaluate the position at the end of it--if you can't do positional evaluations, then ignore them or learn how.

[@whisper3856]

Great explanation, Eric. :)

[@E8oL4]

Very interesting. Would love to see more. I always you the computer analysis function on lichess after some interesting games. But like the viewers of the stream, some of the mistakes the computer finds are a littble bit over my head. Regarding the engine-free analysis of my games, I feel like I lack the knowledge to identify key mistakes (or else, I would have avoided them in the first place, no?)

[@vladp089]

Thanks for uploading to KZbin

[@fintan9218]

Feel like software devs are missing the opportunity of making a solid free game review. It might make Cc up their game if there was free alternatives for their most useful feature(imo). If there was a free app, could have reasonable amount of ads nobody would care, and it did everything Cc game review did it would be successful. I know lichess is free, but its not nearly as intuitive and easy to understand as Cc game review

[@flaccojordy]

Love your content I love the live lessons that you post very instructional it would be Interesting for me to see you react or break down a lesson video from another content creator

[@danmantena4676]

thanks Eric!

[@chengzhou8711]

Thanks Mr. Rosen

[@deleondaniels4572]

Thanks buddy.

[@outrightmed]

what is this interface or program you are using? is this just the website?

[@seandoc8463]

Can the analysis tool be used on the app, either in the mobile or tablet version?

[@nadezhdatrushkova9189]

Eric, what does the telephone icon mean?

[@mohamedailam6502]

Are these features available on lichess mobile too?

[@nanonipples6538]

this was great and I want deeper >:)

[@rarepepe8790]

Yo Eric can u do video going VERY in depth for ruy lopez? I've recently moved to openings because I believe my endgame is good enough and I can't find a solid source for the opening. Like 20 moves into the game?

[@joeybeauvais-feisthauer3137]

Wikipedia has a good list of variations. Also the list of most common moves on lichess shows how frequently they are used and the proportions of win/draw/loss. But almost no opening will have 20 moves deep theory, and even then there's so many sidelines that your opponent will deviate long before that. And if they don't then they also know the theory so you have no advantage

[@phillish2258]

Ive a Question, how do you make arrows etc. on the board in other Colors than green...

[@sepehrjafari5223]

I think shift+click

[@fiskmas943]

sepehr jafari shift, ctrl and alt I think.

[@jimromero5625]

Alt-F4 :)

[@phillish2258]

@@jimromero5625 u go first :(

[@jrmbayne]

I am a future person who found this helpful

[@anoukadel6397]

tx

[@sharpchess724]

"oponnent" sorry I just felt the need to comment this hehe

[@lafoliarihavein7163]

when botez just subscibed then the game turned out to be a botez gambit and it ended with a beautiful double checkmate.... what a great turnout of events

[@orpheus6398]

I can't have coach cause I'm shy

[@ScubzMcTalBowling]

Can someone tell me if there is an app or website that lets me do this: I want to be able to complete a game against a computer, but then go back and restart the game from a certain position (in the middle of the game) and play a different move and have the game continue from that new move.

[@frederikzinn5427]

lichess

[@ScubzMcTalBowling]

@@frederikzinn5427 ok, thanks

[@mohitduseja9804]

@@frederikzinn5427lichess website on a pc , that's what he is using

[@frederikzinn5427]

@@mohitduseja9804 ?

[@jonathanbernhard5418]

Screw analyses, more 1-minute simuls! 😉

[@HeeyJojo]

nice video

[@carlosmasterguy]

It was valuable lol

[@mortadahasaad530]

Botez is currently dating and looking for a partner She said there are steps to win her heart, this is what i recall: 1-you have to be smart. 2-you have to be kind but also an asshole at the same time. 3-you have to be attractive. 4-i don’t remember :p I think you have these qualifications, if you don’t hit her up then you’re a fool Just invite her for a shared stream where you two play against each other COME ON BROTHER, DO IT!

[@rageagainstthemachineragea2497]

💯👍👏👋😃

[@danielbotes2161]

Second!

[@ZaydenBlaze]

First!

[@eric-rosen]

Third

[@LeoStaley]

No mention of botez? Perhaps he's getting over his crush?