Dumb question of the month. I have Leela on my PC. Can someone explain how I take my .sgf file and use her to analyze my moves...and my opponents?? How do I tell her to analyze, not play. No laughter pls!

--Jeff

If you're talking about Leela Zero, there is two (major) options :

Option 1 : Lizzie

https://github.com/featurecat/lizzie

Option 2 : Go Review Partner

https://github.com/pnprog/goreviewpartner

Personally, I prefer lizzie to review my own games, because it's more interactive


If you're talking about Leela 11, you can still use Go Review Partner (but not lizzie)

Perfect!!! Thanks!!

--Jeff

If you want to use the leela interface to do it move by move then press F2 and open analysis window.

Funny you should mention that, I saw Nick Sibicky using Leela/Lizzie in his recent videos so I started playing around with it last weekend. Took me a bit of time to figure out, but here are the steps for getting it set up.

• Download Lizzie. (Pick CPU or GPU based on your computer specs. If your CPU/graphics card are roughly equal in quality, then I would recommend GPU).
• Download this network file. (Rename it to "network" with no .txt and place it in the Lizzie folder).
• Download Java if you don't already have it.
• Double-click Lizzie.jar to open the Lizzie interface.
• Press O and locate the SGF file in the window that pops up.
• Enjoy!

Just press o in Lizzie and choose your sgf in the windows that open.

Well, that's a whole lot simpler. I don't know how I missed it. Thanks for the tip!

How exactly does one learn from this program? I've attempted to have my games analyzed as well by Lizzie but what am I supposed to take away from her analysis?

LZ is like a top pro player that can just say how bad/good the moves were, and what he would have played (and show you the sequences).

So, you replay your game, and when LZ dislike a move, you look at other sequences LZ would have played, and you can often learn something (and if you don't understand why LZ dislike a move/sequence, it's not that important, just being exposed to really strong moves is already good)

And don't forget, no need to learn something about all of your mistakes, just a couple per game is fine