Analysis of games.

Hey all. I’m stuck around a 700 rating. No amount of puzzles or gameplay is improving how well I play. Everything I read gives a few base tips. “Ground rules” if you will for improving tour chess game. One of which is to always analyze your games. So my question is this...how do I pull information from analysis that actually helps me get better?? I can analyze a game and it means zip...nothing at all. When analyzing, if the computer says...uhh no THIS was the best move, if I don’t understand WHY that was the best move it doesn’t help me at all. A lot of times I’ll see no piece in immediate danger when I’ve made a “mistake”. Or even 2-3 moves ahead I have trouble seeing why that move was a mistake. I know it’s there, but again if I don’t see why this was the best move, the analysis means nothing. Even sometimes the analysis will show a move that to me looks completely stupid and like a blunder, but is still somehow the best move. How do I begin to grasp these concepts???

Do your own analysis.  Keep it simple at your level. 

For your opening moves did you follow opening principles?

What were you trying to accomplish with each move?

What were your thoughts?  Ideas?  Plans?

Even something as simple as move one could be this...

1.e4  I am occupying a center square, and activated my queen and bishop.

Chess is all about the "why".

One last thing.  Playing speed chess is a horrible way to try and improve.  You're not giving yourself time to think.

Take the only daily game you played.