Are the Game analysis "blunders" always accurate?

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Dextermix

Hello Forum, 

I am fairly new to Chess and trying to improve with every game, so I apologize if this question is not living up to the community standards here. 

My doubt is about this website's Game Analysis feature. It happens so frequently that moves which appear harmless and often even make me win many Games are actually tagged as "Blunders" or "Mistakes" when I analyse the game later.

Are these engine suggestions always completely accurate? If no piece is hanging, no scope of forks, pins, skewers or other kind of attacks is seen in those moves, How does a new player like me read these analysis to improve my play?

I wish I could show a sample game of mine here, But there are multiple blunders and mistakes shown by the engines here in every single game of mine, so there's nothing specific I am hinting at. 

It's very frustrating to keep winning games by moves that make sense to me, forces errors by opponents and makes me go up pieces, but yet, be consistently reminded that I am blundering all the time. 

IMKeto

I wouldn't get to caught up in how an engine defines blunders, and mistakes.  You can have a choice between mate in 1, or capturing the queen.  Obviously the mate in 1 is the first choice, but if you captured the queen instead, and are now up a queen?  The engine will call that move a blunder.

To properly answer your question, you would need to post an example.

ArtNJ

IMBacon is right and flagged one situation where you can ignore the label.  However, in general, if something is labelled a blunder and you don't understand why, there is either a tactic you are missing, or positional stuff going on that you aren't understanding.  It is 100% worthwhile to try to understand why moves are labelled blunders.  Doesn't mean you will always succeed without help, but its worthwhile to try.  Mistakes reflect a smaller change in the engine's evaluation, and as such there is a higher likelihood that its just "computer stuff" that you can't understand.  Its still worthwhile to take a look and see if you can glean something, but its not worth worrying about if you cant.  I generally don't look at inaccuracies if its a blitz game, unless it was a key point of the game I'm interested in, but will always look at them in a longer game.