How A Grandmaster Analyzes His Games (Black vs. 4.Bf4 Grunfeld)
You like to learn from my posts about an opening, so here's another one, on how to deal with Bf4 setups, which people often find annoying to face in practice (London, anyone?).
Here is a game I annotated from my last tournament, the 2019 Oceania Zonal. It shows what to do if the opponent initiates many exchanges, in the hope of holding a draw against a higher-rated player.
I hope you enjoyed reading my thought process during each move of the game! This serves as a good example of how you should go about analyzing your own games.
In the past, when people found this too hard to do, they would need to find a coach to go through the game with them, so that they could extract the key lessons for next time.
However, I'm about to share a video lesson called 'How to Analyse Your Games' to show you how I analyze a game 'live', and give you a step-by-step process to how you can analyze your games yourself, and get the maximum learning and value out of this work!
To access this video lesson, you need to be a member of 'The Chess Improvement Group' - my paid peer-to-peer mentoring group, where we work together to resolve any challenges we face in becoming stronger chess players, while I share frequent chess content (including 7+ hours of video lessons, many annotated games, and opening files) to direct your study and give you some of that 'magic' Grandmaster chess understanding
Click here to join us for just $7 a month and I'll welcome you into the group soon!
In the past, when people found this too hard to do, they would need to find a coach to go through the game with them, so that they could extract the key lessons for next time.
However, I'm about to share a video lesson called 'How to Analyse Your Games' to show you how I analyze a game 'live', and give you a step-by-step process to how you can analyze your games yourself, and get the maximum learning and value out of this work!
To access this video lesson, you need to be a member of 'The Chess Improvement Group' - my paid peer-to-peer mentoring group, where we work together to resolve any challenges we face in becoming stronger chess players, while I share frequent chess content (including 7+ hours of video lessons, many annotated games, and opening files) to direct your study and give you some of that 'magic' Grandmaster chess understanding
Click here to join us for just $7 a month and I'll welcome you into the group soon!
