Reviewing Games

“Reviewing” a game is the study step that consumes analysis output — distinct from “analysing” a game, which is the processing step that produces it. After a game is imported (and, ideally, analysed), Masterboard helps you turn it into improvement: see where you left your opening preparation, act on it, and keep track of which games you have been through.

The deviation banner

When you open a personal game on the Home page, Masterboard compares its moves against your active repertoires. If the game left preparation, a Deviation section appears in the Explorer panel (and an amber marker appears on that move in the Notation panel). It tells you who went off-book, at which move, and what your preparation expected versus what was played.

The banner offers up to three actions, depending on the situation:

• Jump to deviation — navigate the board to the position where the game left book.
• Add to repertoire — shown when your opponent went off-book. Adds the move they played into the repertoire that was being followed, so you are prepared next time. If you have more than one eligible repertoire, you choose which.
• Drill this line — shown when you went off-book. Opens a drill session seeded at the deviation position so you can reinforce the line you meant to play.

Tracking what you have reviewed

The Games page treats review like an inbox, so nothing slips through unnoticed:

• An Unreviewed column shows a small dot on personal games that have no review record. (Like the Analysed column, it is icon-only and can be hidden from the column-visibility menu.)
• A review-status filter (All review statuses / Unreviewed only / Reviewed only) lets you focus on the backlog.
• Right-click any game → Mark reviewed / Unmark reviewed to set its status. You can also mark a game reviewed from the deviation banner on the Home page when a deviation was detected.

Games that existed before this feature shipped are treated as already reviewed, so the indicator only flags games imported since.

A typical loop

1. Import your latest games (see Importing Games).
2. Analyse them to unlock move classifications and accuracy.
3. Filter the Games list to Unreviewed only and open each game on Home.
4. Act on any deviation — add the opponent’s move to your repertoire, or drill the line you missed.
5. Mark reviewed and move to the next.
6. Periodically check the Deviation Gaps panel to see which gaps recur most across all your games.