Tracking your mistakes
In short
Keep a simple mistakes log: after each analysed game, note the type of each serious mistake — missed tactic, hung a piece, wrong plan, endgame technique, time trouble. After ten games, the counts show exactly what to train.
By the end you can
- Classify own mistakes
- Track blunders per game over time
The lesson
Keep a simple mistakes log: after each analysed game, note the type of each serious mistake — missed tactic, hung a piece, wrong plan, endgame technique, time trouble. After ten games, the counts show exactly what to train.
The app does part of this automatically: blunders per game and phase accuracy are in the Insights tab. Combine those numbers with your own notes about why the mistakes happened.
Key points to remember
- Classify every serious mistake
- Count after 10 games
- Train the biggest category first
- Numbers + reasons
Examples
Show the solution
45... Rf2+ 46. Qxf2 Bxf2
Practise it
Solve puzzles on this idea: fork puzzles, pin puzzles, hanging piece puzzles.
Homework
Start a mistakes log and fill it in for your next five games.
More game analysis lessons
- Your first game review (Novice)
- Annotate first, engine second (Class F)
- Learning from model games (Class D)
- Critical moments in your games (Class C)
- Full annotation of a tournament game (Class B)
- The personal mistakes notebook (Class A)