Game Analysis Alternatives?

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Jalex13

I just finished a game I want to analyze with the help of an engine. Sadly I already used my game report feature for the day and don’t have money for a chess.com subscription. Any suggestions?

ChessSBM



ChessSBM

I analyzed your final game.

Jalex13
Thank you
AtaChess68
Spend an hour or two on this Scid vs PC instruction vid. By far my best spend hours in my chess studies last year: https://youtu.be/Zwy-pE54V9w
sndeww
Jalex13 wrote:
I just finished a game I want to analyze with the help of an engine. Sadly I already used my game report feature for the day and don’t have money for a chess.com subscription. Any suggestions?

you can analyze even without subscription. The difference is that your engine is "only" depth 14 and you don't have the nice "best move, excellent" moves interface, and no accuracy.

Analysis isn't having the engine run your moves. Analysis is thinking over your moves.

sndeww
NervesofButter wrote:
ChessSBM wrote:

I analyzed your final game.

No offense, but that is not analyzing a game.  Its just a bunch of engine jibberish.

capablanca never analyzed a single game because stockfish never told him what to do. 

sndeww
traininghardy wrote:
B1ZMARK wrote:
NervesofButter wrote:
ChessSBM wrote:

I analyzed your final game.

No offense, but that is not analyzing a game.  Its just a bunch of engine jibberish.

capablanca never analyzed a single game because stockfish never told him what to do. 

Genius! 

sometimes, my own genius... it frightens me

Ziryab
Jalex13 wrote:
I just finished a game I want to analyze with the help of an engine. Sadly I already used my game report feature for the day and don’t have money for a chess.com subscription. Any suggestions?

 

Get

http://scidvspc.sourceforge.net/

 

And

https://stockfishchess.org/

 

 

ChessSBM
NervesofButter wrote:
ChessSBM wrote:

I analyzed your final game.

No offense, but that is not analyzing a game.  Its just a bunch of engine jibberish.

You are actually the one with no offense. This guy wanted analyze  from the engine, not from a human. So I copied the PGN with the analyze of the engine and post it. 

ChessSBM
NervesofButter wrote:
ChessSBM wrote:
NervesofButter wrote:
ChessSBM wrote:

I analyzed your final game.

No offense, but that is not analyzing a game.  Its just a bunch of engine jibberish.

You are actually the one with no offense. This guy wanted analyze  from the engine, not from a human. So I copied the PGN with the analyze of the engine and post it. 

9 hrs ago
 

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#3

"I analyzed your final game."

 

Again....no you didn't.

I analyzed it. Analyzed here means I used the engine analyze . Well, you didn’t even specify which part I didn’t making you trying to get excuses and be stubborn from the real fact . I am sure you will reply by “you are the one no offense” or something like that, but all means you are trying to make excuses.

sndeww
ChessSBM wrote:
NervesofButter wrote:
ChessSBM wrote:
NervesofButter wrote:
ChessSBM wrote:

I analyzed your final game.

No offense, but that is not analyzing a game.  Its just a bunch of engine jibberish.

You are actually the one with no offense. This guy wanted analyze  from the engine, not from a human. So I copied the PGN with the analyze of the engine and post it. 

9 hrs ago
 

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#3

"I analyzed your final game."

 

Again....no you didn't.

I analyzed it. Analyzed here means I used the engine analyze . Well, you didn’t even specify which part I didn’t making you trying to get excuses and be stubborn from the real fact . I am sure you will reply by “you are the one no offense” or something like that, but all means you are trying to make excuses.

I mean, you really didn’t analyze the game. You just ran it through a computer and put out what it said. While it may have been what the OP wanted, it isn’t really “analysis”.

ChessSBM
B1ZMARK wrote:
ChessSBM wrote:
NervesofButter wrote:
ChessSBM wrote:
NervesofButter wrote:
ChessSBM wrote:

I analyzed your final game.

No offense, but that is not analyzing a game.  Its just a bunch of engine jibberish.

You are actually the one with no offense. This guy wanted analyze  from the engine, not from a human. So I copied the PGN with the analyze of the engine and post it. 

9 hrs ago
 

0

#3

"I analyzed your final game."

 

Again....no you didn't.

I analyzed it. Analyzed here means I used the engine analyze . Well, you didn’t even specify which part I didn’t making you trying to get excuses and be stubborn from the real fact . I am sure you will reply by “you are the one no offense” or something like that, but all means you are trying to make excuses.

I mean, you really didn’t analyze the game. You just ran it through a computer and put out what it said. While it may have been what the OP wanted, it isn’t really “analysis”.

I guess I meant to give what the OP wanted.

ThaiViet41

Lucaschess is free and as a good analyze feature. 

Basically it give you the list of move with a color code depending if they are good or bad. Which is more then enough. 

When a move is classified as bad you just have to look at what are the two or three top move of the chess engine and/or what the chess engine would have play against your move. 

That's the way I am using the chess.com analysis feature in fact :-). 

You can even train on your game with Lucachess, once it has analyzed a game you can train with it. 

It will take a position where you did a "bad move" and you have to guess the top move. Quite good and totally free. 

magipi

It is astonishing that everyone just ignores what B1zmark said. You can use the chess.com engine unlimited times without subscribing. The whole thread is pointless.

ThaiViet41
magipi wrote:

It is astonishing that everyone just ignores what B1zmark said. You can use the chess.com engine unlimited times without subscribing. The whole thread is pointless.

No it is not. 

Using only the chess engine you can see the three top suggestion for each move. Using the analysis (here or with other software (lucachess, fritz, chessbase other) you have an overview of the game with the evolution of the evaluation and/or the move color coded to show you which one lead to a big variation on the eval. 

 

magipi
ThaiViet41 wrote:
magipi wrote:

It is astonishing that everyone just ignores what B1zmark said. You can use the chess.com engine unlimited times without subscribing. The whole thread is pointless.

No it is not. 

Using only the chess engine you can see the three top suggestion for each move. Using the analysis (here or with other software (lucachess, fritz, chessbase other) you have an overview of the game with the evolution of the evaluation and/or the move color coded to show you which one lead to a big variation on the eval. 

These are just cosmetic features at best. Do you seriously need color coded help in determining whether 2 is greater than 4 or the other way around?

ThaiViet41

"These are just cosmetic features at best. Do you seriously need color coded help in determining whether 2 is greater than 4 or the other way around?"

Well that's a convenient way to see what moved you played lead to score variation. Yes you can also go move by move to see the variation of eval for each one, but seriously having just to look at a table to see what are the important one and having a text indicating you the nature of the issue " you could have develop a piece, this will lead to lose of material " ect is very user friendly.

Keep in mind that not all chess player put the same amount of time investment in the game.

Ziryab
ThaiViet41 wrote:

Keep in mind that not all chess player put the same amount of time investment in the game.

 

Those who invest time into studying their games in depth also invest in software like ChessBase. It is far better for serious analysis that anything this site will ever have.

ThaiViet41
Ziryab wrote:
ThaiViet41 wrote:

Keep in mind that not all chess player put the same amount of time investment in the game.

 

Those who invest time into studying their games in depth also invest in software like ChessBase. It is far better for serious analysis that anything this site will ever have.

Yes I have chessbase with the mega database. I am not so fond of Fritz 17 but Chessbase is really good.