Thank you Solitude and Tallfred for the game analysis. It seems the game was not as brilliant as i thought but more in a way i got away with my opponent playing poor.
Tallfred can you please tell me how to do the analysis in chessmaster as i have a copy of Chessmaster Grandmaster edition. I can import the game but can't seem to get it to analyze it.
You don't have to play well if you help your opponent to play badly
In this game, your opponent was not able to deal with your threats, and so you won. It's as simple as that.
How I analyze games:
- download the PGN
- Fire up Chessmaster
- Start a game in training mode. Press Cancel if Chessmaster tries to set up opponents and time.
- Choose File... Load (or press Ctrl+L) and point Chessmaster to the PGN
- Select Mentor... Game Analysis
- Enter the amount of time that Chessmaster should consider each move: 200 seconds works well if you leave the computer to think overnight
- Leave Chessmaster whilst it thinks: this can take a long time depending on how long the game is and how much time yiou have allocated per move.
- When Chessmaster has finished, you can look at the annotation window (Look under for it under the Window menu item) to see Chessmaster's analysis at each move.
Tip for free: the annotation at the initial position is Chessmaster's summary of its view of the game. In the case of your game it reads as follows:
Annotations by Chessmaster: Grandmaster Edition Auto-Annotator. 100 seconds per move.
White Black
Book Move 2 2
Leave Book 1 0
CMX Agrees 10 4
CMX Disagrees 1 6
Agreement Pct. 91% 40%
Total Error 2.07 18.13
Relevant Error 2.07 9.40
Missed Mate 0 0
Moved Into Mate 0 0
I am not quite sure of the difference between "Total Error" and "Relevant Error", but this report is still an eloquent summary of Chessmaster's opinion of this game.
Feel free to contact me if you have any further questions at
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Should rather work on that for a while.
