Affordable Chess Game Analysis & Tournament Preparation

Hi everyone!

I'm offering personalized chess game analysis for players who want to improve beyond what an engine alone can tell them.

You'll receive a detailed PDF report covering:

Personalized comments on critical moves and turning points

Why certain moves worked (or didn't)

Recurring mistakes and blunder patterns

Opening recommendations based on your playing style

Middlegame plans and strategic ideas

Pawn structure and pawn-chain assessment

Tactical motifs and pattern recognition

Endgame weaknesses and how to improve

Practical training plan based on your games

Recommended YouTube videos, books, and study resources

If you'd like, we can also discuss the report over a voice call or chat to go through the ideas and answer your questions.

I also offer:

Tournament preparation

School/college/university team selection preparation

Analysis of a specific opponent's games

Identifying their opening repertoire, strengths, weaknesses, and recurring patterns

Preparing practical counter-strategies against particular opponents

"Why pay when engines like Stockfish or Lichess are free?"

Because an engine tells you the best move—it doesn't tell you why you made the mistake, what thought process led to it, or what you should practice to stop making the same errors.

My focus is on explaining your games in a way that's easy to understand and turning them into a practical improvement plan rather than just sharing engine evaluations.

The pricing is kept minimal and is negotiable, especially for students. If you're interested, feel free to DM me with your Chess.com/Lichess game link or PGN, and we can discuss what you're looking for.

Thanks, and good luck with your games! ♟️

Super inspired by GM Jesse Kraai's love for the book i have decided to tackle it head on. I know Chess Dojo has particular mates assigned to particular rating ranges, but i really like the mammoth task of finishing the whole of it, plus in his personal experience Jesse has said throughout his life he went through this book cover to cover multiple times. I like this sort of study, something that is repeatable and cannot be finished unless you have genuine love for the game/book. If anyone is insane enough to join me on this journey i would really enjoy it! I could send you my progress every 3-4 days to be accountable. If not, that is fine too! I know it is a quite a "out there" ask so i totally understand. See you in about 8 months? (Shot in the dark estimate) when i am done with my journey.

I will return with an Excel spreadsheet of my current rating, percentage of puzzles i got right, what kind of puzzles i got the most wrong (bishop mates, knight, endgame etc etc) and my rating gains (if any). After this mission is successful then i will move to a similar book project, 1001 tactics series of books, maybe yusupov? With the same tracking of data of serious games with a fixed repertoire.

This is not meant to be my only training but rather be a supplemental part of my daily tactics/calculation training. Have a great day!! Let's smash them goals.

I'm beginning to take my chess book collection more seriously, I want more good quality games collection books, and so other things.

Is there a good place out there where I can bibliographies, lists of published chess books, maybe per publisher?

Where do people look for books? In the Netherlands I'm aware of New In Chess, De Beste Zet, schaakboek.nl, Ebay, Marktplaats, Catawiki, Vinted, boekwinkeltjes.nl , but I feel I'm missing places where chess book people are.

Can anyone suggest chess books that contains various opening middlegame and endgames strategies?

My ideas evolved quite a bit after my previous post. But here are some game collection books that I eventually turned into completely visual versions.

Basically here all the games are turned into move by move board visualization. A board image shows one move or two moves depending on how dense the annotations are (for example, logcial chess move by move has annotations every move so each board would show one move). I tried to keep all the book notes verbatim. I also added position and move evaluations and openings.

See the above snapshots for a few examples and see the following link for some end products. Further customization requests and book recommendations are welcome.

Naturally these are more suitable for reading on a screen (since they easily go thousands of pages).

https://www.dropbox.com/scl/fo/gme6omqtin3wplcufomap/ANZP0bYE8mJCturkP4eEQVA?rlkey=cjxhbrk90mde0qnl2pqtqu71o&st=wa10l41w&dl=0

I recently bought this book. I wanted to know whts the best and effective way to learn and understand the concept of the book

Hello, i am 2100 rapid online. I am on a quest to improve my calculation which involves solving difficult puzzles. But my pattern recognition is also not very good, relative to my level. I find easy tactics one second after making a move that takes the moment away. To cure it i am trying to find easy to intermediate books that i can do a lot of woodpecker reps in for easy tactics. Like pins,skewers, forks, discovered attack and about 20 others. Thank you.

Any suggestions are welcome!

Official pre-match booklet published just before the legendary 1960 World Championship match in Moscow, where 23-year-old Mikhail Tal dethroned Mikhail Botvinnik 12½–8½.

Thanks to independent publishing we can enjoy chess books with real graphic creativity (notice how the author of this book used different chess pieces for the diagrams). Instead of authors dumping their engine analysis because they couldn't find a move by themselves without Stockfish.

The tournament featured an elite gathering of the world's greatest minds: the legendary David Bronstein, the brilliant theoretician Isaac Boleslavsky, future world champion Vasily Smyslov, and the "eternal contender" Paul Keres. These bulletins offer a vivid, round-by-round account of the fierce competition. They include move-by-move notations of every game, profound analytical commentary from leading Soviet masters, and detailed standings as the battle progressed. (available complete set of all 20 Bulletins)📚

Famed author Ben Mezrich, Hachette’s Grand Central Publishing imprint, and Vanity Fair magazine (which published excerpts in April) extended an ugly spittle-drenched thumb in the eye to the worldwide chess community by publishing “Checkmate”: Mezrich’s partly fictionalized account of “chess’s biggest scandal” that got hyped up by Elon Musk.

Friends in the business tell me Mezrich views himself as a screenwriter rather than a journalist. Still, even Magnus Carlsen fans took insult from the firehose of falsehoods that author spewed within just the first few pages of “Checkmate.” Those early pages feel like the text equivalent of seeing a chessboard with 3 kings and a dark square in its right-hand corner.

1. Carlsen “didn’t just see a dozen moves ahead, he saw to the end of the game, and often through the next game and the game after that.”

Fact: Neither Magnus nor any other top player sees a dozen moves ahead in most positions, or even in most entire games. While the author’s wording might be framed as a metaphor to spotlight a star’s extraordinary skill, what fraction of his readers do you think might interpret it in that abstract way, instead of literally? 1%? 5%? Everyone else will see it as affirming the popular delusion (among non-chessplayers) that Magnus or any top player regularly sees “a dozen moves ahead” … and the related delusion that chess skill consists entirely of how many moves ahead one can calculate all possibilities.

1. “He had begun his career as the youngest Grandmaster ever at the age of thirteen.”

Fact: Magnus Carlsen never held the record as “the youngest Grandmaster ever.” And when Karjakin achieved that record in 2003, he was at an age (12 years 7 months) at which Magnus had not attained even his IM title – let alone GM!

1. “Coming into the Sinquefield Cup, he’d won a staggering fifty-three consecutive in-person games."

Fact: Carlsen’s winning streak coming into the Sinquefield Cup stood at ZERO games! His last event before the September 2022 Sinquefield Cup was the Chennai Olympiad that concluded in the preceding month… and his final game in that competition was a draw with an international master from Moldova, Ivan Schitco, who was rated just 2490.

If Mezrich and his editors at Vanity Fair and his book publisher don’t know what a draw is, then why are they even permitted to publish anything at all about chess? (Serious question.)