Your first game review
In short
After each game, replay it — on a board or in the app — before you look at the engine. Find the first move where you lost material or missed a capture.
By the end you can
- Replay own games and finds the moment material was lost
- Name the reason in one sentence
The lesson
After each game, replay it — on a board or in the app — before you look at the engine. Find the first move where you lost material or missed a capture. Write one sentence: “On move 14 I moved my knight and left the bishop unprotected.”
Patterns appear quickly. If most of your lost pieces were left unprotected, you need the safety check; if you keep missing forks, you need fork puzzles. Your games tell your coach what to teach next.
Key points to remember
- Review before the engine
- Find the first material loss
- One sentence per mistake
- Mistakes repeat — that is good news, they can be fixed
Examples
Show the solution
54... Nxc6+ 55. Kxd5 Nxb4+
Practise it
Solve puzzles on this idea: hanging piece puzzles.
Homework
Review your last three games and write the one-sentence lesson for each.
More game analysis lessons
- Annotate first, engine second (Class F)
- Tracking your mistakes (Class E)
- 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)