Analysing past games?

Is anyone here into analyzing their past Hex games? What software do you use to do it, and how do you judge the possibilities? I feel like I play terribly in some situations (most situations?) and I want to correct this.

I like JHex, though I use it less now. Now I generally prefer analyzing games, while I'm playing them, on a printout of the game, marking the moves already made in ink, and putting possible moves in pencil (X for blue, O for red).

I don't do much detailed analysis afterwards, but I sometimes just scroll through the moves of a game, thinking about what might have been.

JHex is available at: http://canyon23.net/jgame/README_hex.html

In addition to analyzing your own games, it's a good plan to look at other people's games.

Good luck! Have fun! Welcome to Hex!

I use Jhex for post mortem once in a while. I should use it more often. There is a Ruby program which can download LG games in Jhex file format. See this thread. Scroll down and copy it from the post. If you save it as gethex.rb then the command line to run it would be

Ruby gethex.rb game# [game# ...]

In order to display swapped games the same in Jhex as on LG, this script for example would save the game 1.D2 2.swap as 1.B4 2.B4.

This Ruby program was adapted from Alan Hensel's program to download Twixt games for Jtwixt. Alan also created a website for analyzing Twixt games. Since Hex rules are less complicated than Twixt, and Alan's source code is available for all to see, if someone wanted to create a similar web site for Hex, then Richard might put a link to your site with every Hex game, active or completed, as he did with Twixt games.