Published 2026-04-27
Accuracy percentage gets treated like a report card grade, but it’s an average — and averages hide the one moment that actually decided the game. You can play 39 near-perfect moves and one game-losing blunder and still land in the "great game" range on accuracy alone.
What matters more is where the big evaluation swings happened, not how many of them there were. A single blunder on move 24 that hands back a completely winning position is a bigger diagnostic signal than five minor inaccuracies spread across an otherwise equal middlegame.
When you review a game, don’t start with the summary number. Start with the critical moments — the two or three points where the evaluation swung hardest — and ask what you were thinking at that exact point. That’s where the actual lesson from the game lives, and it’s exactly what the critical-moments view in Game Review is built to surface first.