Let's analyse

Dear readers,

we present a series on the pages of the Chess School, which I have taken the liberty to aptly call „Let's Analyse!“. In the analysed games, we will mostly deal with strategic or tactical means used in more complex games. I have tried to ensure that the presented games primarily complement the teaching topics we covered in the thirteen lessons of the first training year, but of course you will also find many other various contents for analysis and reflection here.

My goal was definitely not to analyse games from world competitions to exhaustive depths (exhausting for you as well), to overwhelm you with countless (mostly computer-generated) variations, or to philosophise about how one master or grandmaster (whether Petr or Pavel, Dzej-Dzej or..., as is now customary to spice up commentary with a game) outwitted their opponent in this or that variation, how someone looked during the game, or what mutual relationships or scores the players have. No! My aim is to teach and entertain you in a completely different way. In every game analysed on these pages, you can learn how to play the given opening, system or variation; that is, basic orientation in them. In the middlegame and endgames, we will learn, among other things, to logically and thoroughly analyse and synthesise what happened on the board, and, as I have already mentioned, to reflect on various strategic and tactical means that the opponents used or could have used in the battle. Because I will mostly use games of weaker players than masters, grandmasters or „grandmasters“ (here I mean „quickly made“, mostly young players who have achieved the IM or even GM title, but not chess strength), there will usually be more mistakes in the games, and without the compass of verbal commentary it would be difficult to orient oneself in the games. In my opinion, more important didactic verbal comments are therefore used here to the full extent. They are a kind of compass that will guide you in the right direction of thinking in the jungle of position transformations and changes in the game caused by mistakes.

I wish you above all pleasant entertainment and hopefully also learning in the newly opened section below.

Note: The analyses are intended for a wide community of chess players from less experienced players up to the master level. However, coaches can also fully utilise them, because the mistakes of their pupils and, of course, mine, keep repeating over and over again (whether these cycles are slowly getting longer or shorter – depending on which analogy we use – with the decreasing average intelligence of young players, their average performance, which is again a reflection of upbringing in society, I will rather leave completely aside).

Overview of analyses:

Since Analysis No. 7 we have been offering a new expanded form of graphic possibilities in teaching materials. You can study their explanation here.