Game analysis

How to analyse your own chess games https://devonjuniorchess.co.uk/content/how-analyse-your-games

TBGS game analysis June 2022 https://lichess.org/study/NpS6HHVi

TBGS game analysis Nov 2022 https://lichess.org/study/RaOIpsQc

General points:

Openings: generally could be a lot better.  Of the four games, I started wanting to complain at move #3, #2, #5 and the other maybe #1 but definitely #5 and probably #3.  People out there these days (since lockdown and Chessable) often know their openings very well, and I fear you are going swimming in a shark tank, armed with a water pistol.  Chessable give a lot away free.  I have 2 complete free repertoires on video (with 1.e4 or 1.d4), and dozens in PGN and booklet form. Acquire and inwardly digest.

Tactics: the evaluation charts (below) showed huge swings in every game.  I don't know if you don't see when you look, or you just don't look...  But there are treatments!

Strategy: hard to see in all the chaos caused by the blunders!

Endgames: the games were mostly over long before then.

Thinking: Not organised? (THINC) Or not the right sort? (Paris, PuzzFuzz)

Evaluation charts

The charts are on a 'fisheye' axis where the middle bit is blown up and it gets squashed as you get to the top and bottom (because it doesn't matter if you are 1,2 or 3 Queens up...)

(see https://lichess.org/blog/WFvLpiQAACMA8e9D/learn-from-your-mistakes)

Thinking

https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLZvVUoqdZZQLqcDXoMmIj8CbVb1DaNDqu

One day I will produce something on calculation, but meanwhile, see HICUP...

Nice example of clear thinking: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0GQyySwNnLw

Queen's Gambit:

DJCA booklet & DJCA videos https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLZvVUoqdZZQK9p24x-fKFIYYOrB2BMF2H

First steps book: https://onionschess.co.uk/content/first-steps-queens-gambit

Starting Out books: https://www.amazon.co.uk/Starting-Out-Queens-John-Shaw/dp/1857443047 ht...

3 starting out books: https://www.amazon.co.uk/Complete-Guide-Queens-Gambit-Play/dp/1781944628/

Repertoire book: https://onionschess.co.uk/content/opening-repertoire-queens-gambit

TBGS examples https://lichess.org/study/VnmyHTF9

Repertoire recommendations

If an author recommends the Queen’s Gambit, they are very likely to recommend that you play the Exchange Variation with Nge2.  I looked at the contents list for all these books and DVDs:

And this is what they said:

Carlsbad book https://www.amazon.co.uk/Middlegame-Strategy-Carlsbad-Pawn-Structure/dp/...
& video https://shop.chessbase.com/en/products/collins_the_carlsbad1
& free videos https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HSGf5E9IWMY

Playing Black against 1.d4

Playing Black against everything else https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=goKP_HgGQbE