How to analyze chess games?

Hi,

Can anyone point me to an article or a Youtube video that shows me how to analyze chess games?

I'm new to chess and I would like to be able to set up a position and have a chess engine calculate the best next move.

When I'm learning chess openings and my opponent deviates in a clever way I would like to afterwards be able to figure out what my move should have been. I don't understand the explanations chess.com gives me (I don't know how to decipher it), so a software that's easy on the eyes :-)

Thanks!

from the main menu...

navigate....

Learn -> Analysis

I don't see that function under Analysis. For example I would like to see next moves for incomplete games. I don't see that function under Learn -> Analysis.

What would different moves be for this:

You push the green button and voilá.

learn how to use Chess.com Analysis board, including its built-in 'Stockfish' chess engine for analysis of chess games...

https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=how+to+use+chess.com+analysis+board

How to load (i.e., copy-paste), view, and playback games in .pgn file format for analysis with Chess.com Analysis board...

https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=how+to+use+chess.com+analysis+board

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YMyltq0tNhg&ab_channel=YoushengWang

Chess databases contain chess game files in pgn format which you can download for analysis in Chess.com (or any other) analysis board......here are several such chess databases..

https://www.chessgames.com/

https://old.chesstempo.com/game-database.html

https://www.365chess.com/

https://database.chessbase.com/

https://en.chessbase.com/post/using-the-live-database-from-the-browser

note also that pgn files are text files.  The text can be viewed in any text file editor/viewer such as Notepad, Wordpad. MS Word, etc.  To do so, simply add a .txt extension to the existing file name when it can then be opened with the desired text viewer/editor of your choice...

for example modify the following .pgn file name...

anderssen_kieseritzky_1851.pgn

to this (by appending .txt to the end of the file name)...

anderssen_kieseritzky_1851.pgn.txt

then you will be able to open it in (for example), Notepad, where it will displayed as this text...

[Event "Casual game"]
[Site "London ENG"]
[Date "1851.06.21"]
[EventDate "?"]
[Round "?"]
[Result "1-0"]
[White "Adolf Anderssen"]
[Black "Lionel Adalbert Bagration Felix Kieseritzky"]
[ECO "C33"]
[WhiteElo "?"]
[BlackElo "?"]
[Source "The Chess Player, vol.i no.1, 1851.07.19, p.2"]
[PlyCount "45"]

1.e4 e5 2.f4 exf4 3.Bc4 Qh4+ 4.Kf1 b5 5.Bxb5 Nf6 6.Nf3 Qh6
7.d3 Nh5 8.Nh4 Qg5 9.Nf5 c6 10.g4 Nf6 11.Rg1 cxb5 12.h4 Qg6
13.h5 Qg5 14.Qf3 Ng8 15.Bxf4 Qf6 16.Nc3 Bc5 17.Nd5 Qxb2 18.Bd6
Bxg1 {It is from this move that Black's defeat stems. Wilhelm
Steinitz suggested in 1879 that a better move would be
18... Qxa1+; likely moves to follow are 19. Ke2 Qb2 20. Kd2
Bxg1.} 19. e5 Qxa1+ 20. Ke2 Na6 21.Nxg7+ Kd8 22.Qf6+ Nxf6
23.Be7# 1-0

If you load (copy/paste) the pgn file into the analysis board it will display this text, and allow you to playback the game on the virtual analysis board, as well as analyze the game using the built-in Stockfish engine.  By the way, this is the famous "Immortal Game" - Anderson-Kieseritzky, London, 1851.

1. e4 e5 2. Nf3 Nc6 3. Bc4 Nf6 4. d3 b5 5. Bxb5 d5 6. Bxc6+ Bd7 7. Bxa8 Qxa8 8. Nc3 dxe4 9. dxe4 Nxe4 10. O-O Bc5 11. Qe1 Nxc3 12. bxc3 O-O 13. Nxe5 Be6 14. Be3 Bxe3 15. Qxe3 Bc4 16. Nxc4 Re8 17. Qc5 Qc8 18. Rae1 Rd8 19. Re3 Qb7 20. Qe7 Qb8 21. Rfe1 g6 22. Rd3 Re8 23. Qxe8+ Qxe8 24. Rxe8+ Kg7

I think this is great way to understand analyze chess, and I will give a shot about it.