It would be great to have automatic game review for members

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Ian_Rastall

Or as a feature in diamond or platinum/diamond. This could be combined with a more detailed search box in the My Games section. I was just there and noticed how handy it was to be able to search on just games that I won by checkmate. I'm going to merge the files and then plug them into some software to run analysis on them and find out which were the good games. But this could be done within the site itself. In ChessBase you can sort according to "strong" and "beauty" filters. I also have a batch file that sorts according to whether games are "interesting". One sees different colored boxes in ChessBase that are "medals", that also tell you if you have a quality game. In fact, those are probably the best indicators, especially if you have a large selection of games. But those last would require running a batch analysis. Chesscom could do that if it were running through our old games and doing game review in the background. It would be worth it, too, because the cloud analysis here runs in about a minute, whereas it may take ten minutes on a home computer to get the same result with one game. So someone who wants to analyze a thousand games is not going to want to sit there in front of their computer for ten thousand hours, but if they wake up and it's all there, that's a definite member benefit. Just saying. Just more of the same idea, that this site could really expand on the analysis section to provide a more robust (optional) interface that would feel more like using desktop database software. Granted, someone *would* say that if they were really into that aspect of chess, and there's lots of other aspects, too, but maybe it makes sense. I don't know how many people work on and mark up PGNs here, but it doesn't seem to be much of a focus, though you've got the cloud engines and the tablebases and all that wonderful jazz already.

Ian_Rastall

I mean chess games. For instance, this is what all my various filters consider to be the best game I've played on Chesscom:

To find that I searched through about three thousand games to get about six hundred (here at the site), then filtered that down to 43 after sorting in ChessBase on beauty and strength, then down to 40 when filtering on whether or not something is interesting. The batch file put those 40 games into order based on what it thought was the best play. That's not the sort of thing you can do here. You can't really differentiate between different games outside of the options available in that search box.

KingMoored

I guess my chess personality is a little different.

Even when I win a game, I can always find moves where I could have done better. I don't believe my "Best Game" even exists.

The Chesscom Insights for Diamond members fits my chess personality a little better.  Insights looks at all my games, wins and losses, and shows me my best and worse piece performance. 

Ian_Rastall

It's true that there's the Insights section, and that's a part of the site I've never used. But being able to locate your best games is just an example of what you could do if Game Review ran automatically in the background whenever you opted not to run it directly.

I guess, on the one hand, if there are 100 kadrillion games sitting on the servers, and if, in all, 1 kadrillion get Game Review run on them by members, then yes, by not doing it automatically you're saving the resources necessary to review 99 kadrillion. But then, on the other hand, if there's this feature you hope not everyone uses, that's not a useful-enough feature.

It would be great, for instance, to grab all my stuff at once, or all Magnus' stuff at once, or Joe Bloggs', and have it all already analyzed.

KingMoored

I think Insights does run in a once per day background mode on the servers for Diamond members, but it may not analyze to the same depth as a Full Game Review.

Perhaps a "Best Game" feature could be added to Insights?