Lichess Analysis: Review Your Games and Learn from Mistakes

Start with a completed game or an analysis board

Open a completed Lichess game and enter its Analysis board, or use Tools → Analysis board to explore a position. Step through the moves and pause at a decision you want to understand.

Lichess lists both an analysis board with Stockfish and server game analysis among its features. Exploring the current position with the board’s engine is different from asking the server to analyze a whole game. You do not need a full-game report to investigate one candidate move.

Import a PGN for a browsable replay

If your game was played elsewhere, open Lichess Import game. Paste the PGN text or choose a PGN file. The import form offers a computer-analysis request and indicates that an account is needed for that request.

Lichess warns that imported games can be accessed publicly; it points users who need a private import to studies. Choose the appropriate destination before uploading private annotations. A PGN carries the moves of a game; a position alone does not supply its history.

Use the engine to answer a question

Before switching on engine help, name your question: “Could I take the pawn?” or “How should I meet the threat against my king?” Pick a candidate move, calculate a reply, and only then compare it with Stockfish.

Follow the suggested continuation until the point becomes visible. If the engine avoids a capture, try that capture on the analysis board and inspect the reply. Return to the original position afterward, so you do not confuse an explored variation with the game that was actually played.

In the usual White-based display, positive evaluations favor White and negative ones favor Black. Pawn-unit scores describe the position, not a promised result. A deeper search may revise an assessment, and a small numerical difference does not necessarily make one practical plan much easier for a beginner.

Turn a mistake into a repeatable lesson

Lichess also lists a Learn from your mistakes feature. When reviewing a mistake, try to find the improvement yourself before reading the continuation. Then explain what made your original move fail.

Keep the explanation concrete. “My bishop moved off the diagonal and stopped defending f2” gives you a future warning sign. “The engine wanted another move” does not. Save one or two positions for another attempt the following day, rather than trying to absorb every inaccuracy at once.

Bring Lichess games into DevelopChess Coach

You can keep playing and analyzing on Lichess while using DevelopChess Coach for focused follow-up. Sign in to DevelopChess, open Connected accounts, select Lichess, and enter your public username. Choose Connect and find my games to import recent games without sharing your Lichess password.

Alternatively, use Lichess’s PGN download capability, open the downloaded text, and copy a single game into Coach’s Paste PGN form. Select your color and choose Import game. Coach supports standard games from the normal starting position up to 70 full moves and reviews the main line. Your Coach access determines import and review availability.

Open an imported game to analyze and use the findings to choose your next exercise. Read the Lichess vs DevelopChess comparison if you want to compare the workflows. DevelopChess is independent of Lichess.

A short post-game review routine

1. Replay the completed game and mark two uncertain decisions without suggestions.
2. Check those positions with the engine and test your own alternatives.
3. Write one missed threat or planning idea in plain language.
4. Practice that theme with puzzles or an interactive lesson.
5. Revisit the position later and find the improvement without help.

For a standalone position, you can also use the DevelopChess analysis board. Use engine assistance for study after games have finished, in accordance with the rules of the platform where you play.

Official sources

Product instructions checked October 16, 2026. Interfaces and availability can change.

• Lichess official feature list
• Lichess analysis board
• Lichess PGN import and privacy notice